Yan Seiner wrote (in a message from Monday 3)
> I need to set up a basic touchscreen interface - a simple menu option
> scheme.
>
> A user walks up, points to an item on the screen, and a command gets
> executed. That's it. The screen never changes (at least not in the
> alpha version).
>
> ELO makes touchscreens that are supported in X. I am total X ignoramus
> (at least from the programming side).
>
> Is there a simple X scripting language? I know C pretty well, and shell
> scripting. What I need is something that will go full-screen, display
> some text and graphics (like logos) and run a command based on what the
> user points to. I would assume the elo module provided with X will
> handle the basics of mouse selection, so all I need is something that
> reads the click, tells me where the pointer was, and I can handle the
> rest.
>
I've written some simple touchscreen applications with Tcl/Tk:
<http://tcl.activestate.com/>.
To start it full screen, just give the application window the size of
the display and start the X server with your application as the only
client with the command:
xinit /path/to/your/application
Hope this helps.
Matthieu
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