Touch-screen software
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- HomeCreative
We have been approached by a company who provide touch screen kiosks machines for hotels.
The machines are design but the company (run on a inbuilt windows xp media centre pc) and are then passed over to whomever to have the software installed normally by the clients own company. The company now wants to offer there clients a complete design & installation service from machine to presentation.
Does anyone know a of a simple to use off the shelf bit of software we could design and program these machines with???
- orrinward0
Gestureworks
http://gestureworks.com/Microsoft multitouch sdk
http://www.mathieuchamagne.com/t… Max Multitouch Framework (less off the shelf, but easy to make multitouch apps with)
I've used Gestureworks and the Max Multitouch Framework. Gestureworks is pretty nice.
- HomeCreative0
Excellent. I'll have a look at those!
- HomeCreative0
Ahhh. The software doesn't need to be multitouch.
More of a simple job where we can design screens, then map button areas which when pressed link to certain actions like next, back, print!.
- orrinward0
Oh, so there's no real need for multitouch at all? You're just trying to make buttons for a touch device? Just use regular Flash with transparent buttons over the top of your design screens?
- HomeCreative0
Ahh so its as simple as that? Does the machine not need any special software to map the touch screens or can this be done in flash?
- orrinward0
Depends on the hardware. If it's just a windows machine with a touch interface, the screen works the same as a mouse click.
- MrT0
Flash?
- BattleAxe0
looking into this too , more of a hardware angle . anyone try one of the touch screen kits or anyother I saw the Cyclo Touch looks pretty nice but all overseas companies
- dijitaq0
we just finished an interactive kiosk project for a client. the monitor, a panasonic tv (if i remember correctly), we used was a touchscreen device and used an apple mini that runs os x to run the application. we had to install a driver that detects the monitor as a pointing dvice. we build the application using flash.
- Sounds interesting. What drivers did you use?HomeCreative
- i don't remember the exact name, but i remember having to search for it online since the osx version was not available in the cd that came with the tv.dijitaq
- formed0
The ones we've designed have been Flash. Works perfectly well, just as a website wood. You need to make certain changes, like hiding the mouse icon, etc., but overall it is the same (you can easily coordinate the touchscreen with a website, too).
They run off a PC inside of the Kiosk.
- We haven't needed any software, just a Flash player (on the PC). Button, video, etc., all work as normalformed