[Kde-kiosk] flash application that starts programs under Konqueror

[Caleb Tennis]

I did something very similiar to this for one of our products not too long 
ago.  It may not be the best way of doing it, but it worked.

Create a program (I called it the Chooser) that offers x # of buttons for the 
user to click on.  Each button clicked exits the Chooser with a distinct exit 
code.

I then used a perl script to do something like this:

while(1) {
  run chooser;
  if(exit_code == 0) run program_a;
  elsif(exit_code ==1) run program_b;

  ...
}

This script runs at kde startup.

Provided you thoroughly lock your system down, and get rid of window borders 
and decorations, it's a fairly foolproof plan.

Caleb


On Tuesday 29 July 2003 12:45 pm, Steve Headley wrote:
> Hi all,
>  I wanted to write a kiosk application that runs a flash into page for the
> user to choose applications I provide, example (mail, mp3, etc). Once the
> user has chosen the application from the flash page, I need to be able to
> run the application. On finishing the application, the flash intro page
> needs to come back up. Is this possible with KDE3? What is involved in
> setting up such an application?