I think what you're looking for is an image map. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_map
keith -- Keith R. Watson Georgia Institute of Technology IT Support Professional Lead College of Computing [email protected] 801 Atlantic Drive NW (404) 385-7401 Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:tech-chat- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Ron Frazier (TECHC) > Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 12:12 > To: tech-chat > Subject: Re: [tech-chat] how do you merge raspberry pi + go language + > android device > > Hi Keith, > > That was a fast response. I think we may need to talk in some depth > since you have Pi experience. And, it's a cool idea. Very potentially > feasible. The IP security camera I bought has that type of interface. > > I would want the connection to be completely secure, so that's one > consideration. One advantage of that architecture is that you could > access the remote device from any browser, not just the tablet. > > I'm not sure that would allow the level of interaction with the UI that > I want. Consider the interaction you have with a dedicated gps in your > car. The UI is very sophisticated. You have certain zones on the > screen that are sensitive to touch for different purposes. On mine, if > you touch it in the middle, you get a basic menu of icons. If you touch > it in one corner, you get something else, another corner, something > else. Once you're in a menu, you may have a large variety of options or > even need to do input via onscreen keyboard. As another example, > consider the UI of the calculator app in windows, particularly in > scientific mode. There are lots of controls and fairly sophisticated > real time interactive display requirements. I'm not sure you could do > all that with a web page interface, although you might get close with > ajax, flash, and html5. > > What I'd really like is full remote pixel by pixel control of the remote > screen and touchpad overlay. If I could have remote control of the > speaker / headphone and mic, even better. Remote access to the position > sensor, compass, and cameras, better still. > > Sincerely, > > Ron > > > On 4/18/2014 11:47 AM, Watson, Keith wrote: > > Ron, > > > > If I understand what you're saying, you want to use Go to build the > backend but how do you build a touch enabled GUI on the front end. Is this > correct? > > > > If so couldn't you use a web page as the front end and use Go for the > CGI on the backend to do all the work. > > > > If you are viewing the web page with a tablet you would get all the > touch screen features as well. > > > > > > Raspberry Pi running Go code and Apache<-> network<-> client with web > browser > > > > The RPi runs Apache and Nginx quite well. I even have an RPi set up as > an Internet facing Mumble server. > > > > keith > > > > > > -- > > (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to > call on the phone. I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy > mailing lists and such. I don't always see new email messages very > quickly.) > > Ron Frazier > 770-205-9422 (O) Leave a message. > linuxdude AT techstarship.com > > _______________________________________________ > tech-chat mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxmoose.com/mailman/listinfo/tech-chat _______________________________________________ tech-chat mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxmoose.com/mailman/listinfo/tech-chat
