Re: Kiosk mode with gtk (Russel response)

[Gonzalo Aguilar Delgado <gad aguilardelgado com>]

This would be the same as doing it with SDL. And for this is better do
it with SDL, isn't it?

With SDL I only have to write rounded bitmaps for everything and
simulate text entrys with a white box with text on the top ;-)

If there is no other solutions for GTK I think would  be easier and more
flexible to do it with SDL.

Any other proposals?

Thank you Russer




> Gonzalo Aguilar Delgado wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I want to do a TV-Set on box program based on MythTV and Freevo.
> > I want to take the best of two worlds (C integration, and scriptable
> > environment).
> >
> > And the question is:
> >
> > Is there any way to do a kind of kisok mode with GTK2?
> >
> > I want a theme that looks like "http://freevo.sourceforge.net/
> > screenshots.html" but done with GTK2
> >
> > If I cannot do something similar (MythTV has done it with QT) I'll need
> > to use SDL to do all graphics stuff.
> >
> > Someone can help me with this question? Is this possible?
>
> If you want a system that'd give you an easy way to make a tv guide
> that is updated everyday such as in:
>
>    http://freevo.sourceforge.net/screenshots_blurr.html#freevo_ss2
>
> then i'd avoid writing things manually with gtk widgets. I don't
> know if gtk themes can give rounded corners on some of those text
> display boxes.
>
> I'd create a small configuration file format so that you can specify
> the creation of these screens using a simple text file, then make a
> parser that can read it and generate the gtk code. The screen can be
> rendered directly as one big widget (GtkDrawingArea), and mouse clicks
> can be read by defining 'hot' regions on the screen.
>
> You could make similar screen graphics using dynamic html.
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