RE: Re: Cheap'ish Touch Screen device

["Dave McLaughlin" <dave_mclaughlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rob,

I designed a Windows CE device many years ago and used Platform Builder to
create the image. I recall that there is a number of entries in the
registry
that are used to start applications. We too didn't want the task bar or
start button as it was designed to run a single application only. You can
remove the registry entry for this and stop it loading. You can then add
your application to the list and it will boot on startup full screen.

If we need to access the device, we would start Explorer.exe through a
special menu and then exit our programme. This then gave you the standard
desktop you see on CE devices.

I'll try and dig around my old code as I may still have the information
somewhere. You can use Microsoft Visual Studio to edit the registry if you
can Activesync the device, which I assume it can.

I may be tempted to get my Dad to order one of these for me and collect it
when I come over in January but would be interested in hearing more 'good'
stories.

PS.. Any indication of the manufacturer on it? I am based out here in the
Far East and have some excellent contacts in China etc that I can maybe use
to find out more about it.

Cheers,
Dave...

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Rob Iles
Sent: 04 December 2009 00:47
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Cheap'ish Touch Screen device

I *have* the maplin unit on my bench - my "todo pile".

Had a quick play with it, and it seems quite nice.

Ideally we'd like to find the chinese manufacturer to get them in bulk - if
anyone makes any progress on this front, I'd love to hear from you - -
think
of it as a BIG group buy ;-)

It's not *extremely* simple to make it run whatever you want, as large
parts
of the filesystem are stored in ROM. I got as far as disabling the default
UI, and having it boot into a web browser, to a page I'd preset.

Couldn't get it to start full screen - "Kiosk Mode" - and at that
point, i
had to put it on the back burner.

If anyone knows the reg-hack / tweak to get IE on CE (5) to launch
full-screen, there's a big thank you in it :-)

Happy to share what I've done (if A) it's appropriate, B)I can find my
notes).....off list if desired.

Cheers,

Rob



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