[mythtv-users] MythMusic with Touchscreen

[thor]

On Wednesday 09 July 2003 06:16 pm, mbmbeers wrote:

> 1) Convince the authors to make the buttons mouse-aware again
> 2) Convince myself that I can do it in a clean way
> 3) Hack something ugly together I can use locally.
>

	I am in the early stages of working on this. You could make MythThemedDialog 
grab MousePressEvent's (which is what X would give you from Touchscreen 
presses), have it calculate which UIType is "on top", and activate it. I had 
that sort of working at one point, but it was more a hack than a proper 
implementation.

	The thing I'm currently working on is a socket based text interface to 
mythfrontend that can make the front end do simple things (e.g. 
"play track 7" or "tune to channel 4"). Then you just need a  very simple 
lightweight "traditional" Qt application that will show buttons to a user 
(and would work with a touchscreen) which then translates keypresses into 
that socket contol language. The intention is to allow something like a 
Zaurus, Tablet PC, etc. to act as network-wide remote control. Tap tap, tv in 
living room changes to CNN, tap tap, bookshelf stereo starts playing CD.

	Hoping to have some code up related to this in the next few days.

- thor