[mythtv-users] Creating a software remote control for touch screens - help

[Greg Estabrooks]

> TV mode (with the mouse), I want to make a little remote control that would
> always be on top of mythfront end. That application would send keystrokes to
> mythfrontend. 


 I started working on something similar using my touch screen.  But what 
I'm doing instead of being ontop of the frontend is being around the outer edge.

 I'm cloning my TV out (running at 800x600) onto the touch screen/vga out
(running at 1024x768) and writting an app that sits around the outer edge.
This could have status displays, menu controls and bring up a virtual keyboard
like xvkbd.

I started a little mockup image of what I was thinking here :

http://www.phaze.org/mythtv/controlpanel.png

And here are a couple pics of it connected to the TV. Maybe one day I'll finish
it :)

http://pics.phaze.org/?album=albums/2005/08-05-TouchScreenMythTV&


> KBDE which is a virtual keyboard. The virtual keyboard wouldn't work because the
> application in focus would receive the keystrokes. 

 xvkbd  will let you specific what window receives the keystrokes.


> should be feasible without getting too too deep into the mythtv code. (if at all)

 I don't think you would need to deal with the myth source at all for this.