Re: Touch Screen

[Brian <dol-sen telus net>]

On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 16:38 -0800, Mark Ivey wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 10:48, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 20:42:24 +0000 (UTC), Alf C Stockton
> > <alf stockton co za> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > I am using Linux Slackware and X and Gtk+ and for that matter Anjuta as an IDE.
> > > Do you by any chance have a small GTK+ C example that I could look at?
> >
> > There is nothing custom about the Gtk+ code, its all about your X setup,
> > the touchscreen has to come across as core pointer.
>
>
> Exactly.  The touchscreen looks just like a mouse, so any program should
> work with it, including the Gtk+ hello program from the tutorial:
> http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/ch-gettingstarted.html#SEC-HELLOWORLD
>
> The only "special" thing you will have to do is to come up with a "big
> buttons" theme to make it usable, and even doing that doesn't require
> custom Gtk+ code.
>
> -Mark Ivey-

GOOD TIMING on this question!

I need to set up a small point of sale system for a small business my
wife & I bought last spring.   So far I have not found any apps that
suit my fancy and was thinking of modifying one or creating my own
specialized app.  So far I have only been doing python/pygtk coding for
a system package manager gui front end.   It sounds like it should be no
problem to set something up for a touchscreen (if & when I can afford
one).

-- 
Brian <dol-sen telus net>