Digital Labels: kiosk mode

richbs commented 12 years ago

Disable text selection and cursor by default.

methodog commented 12 years ago

Bottom line: on Mac OS X, almost no applications restrict breaking out of full-screen, or so-called 'kiosk mode', to system menu bar. For this reason, the iCab browser may be the only option at the current time.

no issue regarding image dragging
raises its own issue of a '!'cursor over active img -- perhaps it has its own cursor disable setting

Some useful commands and settings for Opera kiosk mode follow. However disabling text selection is not among them, the solution lying in Javascript (which is x-browser)

Applications/Opera.app/Contents/MacOS/Opera -k -nocontextmenu -nodownload -nokeys -nomail -nomaillinks -nomenu -noprint -nosave
opera:config#UserPrefs|HideMouseCursor (UNAVAILABLE ON MAC!!)
Disable mouse gestures (for MacOS) by going to Opera > Preferences > Advanced > Shortcuts and unchecking "Enable mouse gestures"?
For Mac OS X, direct access to the system and other programs is denied through the use of Apple's kiosk APIs (called SystemUIMode). Test this

Chromium kiosk mode (with it's superior animation thanks to V8 Javascript engine)

command line switches are not necessary
browser respects the css3 cursor:none declaration, so mouse cursor is already hidden by the application

richbs commented 12 years ago

Looks like we're going with iCab. Can we?

replace title="mo.etc.." with data-caption="im.caption" where images are rendered in portal.html and digitallabel.html
refactor JS to acknowledge new image attribute

I thank your legendary self.

richbs commented 12 years ago

I have agreed with Eric to write an Applescript to close iCab perhaps with a password.

methodog commented 12 years ago

Opera 11.5 is old enough to not support the Mac OS full screen API, thus providing a kiosk mode without the break out problem.

So, the only problem left to fix is the hiding of the cursor in Opera. The solution is in the touchscreen drivers form TouchBase, and an update in the form of their Gestures add-on: http://touch-base.com/downloads/Gestures/UPDDGesturesmacosxSL-Lion.zip The following changes to the default settings are required in the config file gesture.ini:

Gestures = off
hideCursorDuringTouches = on

richbs commented 12 years ago

All good. This is a useful record of our work here. Closed!

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