Frontdesk / kiosk / reception programming
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:15 pm
I was fooling around a little with frontdesk / kiosk / reception programming.
Duh?
Yep
What I mean is, I was trying to write something simple to run indefinitely on a machine on a frontdesk, in a kiosk, or on a screen in a waiting area. There are some commercial programs available, but where's the fun in that
(Though, if you are aware of something simple and decent you may give me a link to it...)
Anyway, how would one do this in PureBasic? And can it be done in PureBasic?
1. Rotate multiple presentations / videos - not much of a problem I guess
2. Show welcome messages / calenders / room reservations - again probably not much of a problem. Text / bitmaps etc. and we're done.
3. Show a CNN video screen - now there's a little challenge, wouldn't it be great if you could stream it onto a sprite and play it back on a screen? Ah... (It's Internet TV, come to think of it, but I've never tried anything in that direction.)
4. Play a powerpoint presentation - though I hate the package it's typically in use at all companies everywhere. Come to think of it, I wouldn't have to play the presentation itself, I actually might be able to use an external package to convert it to an avi or something. Though that's perhaps not the preferred route
5. Remotely managable - not a big issue either. Place all files to be presented in a shared folder and let the software handle it.
Pfew. Quite a challenge, and yet it seems somehow manageable. Anyone who can point me in the right direction?
Duh?
Yep
What I mean is, I was trying to write something simple to run indefinitely on a machine on a frontdesk, in a kiosk, or on a screen in a waiting area. There are some commercial programs available, but where's the fun in that
(Though, if you are aware of something simple and decent you may give me a link to it...)
Anyway, how would one do this in PureBasic? And can it be done in PureBasic?
1. Rotate multiple presentations / videos - not much of a problem I guess
2. Show welcome messages / calenders / room reservations - again probably not much of a problem. Text / bitmaps etc. and we're done.
3. Show a CNN video screen - now there's a little challenge, wouldn't it be great if you could stream it onto a sprite and play it back on a screen? Ah... (It's Internet TV, come to think of it, but I've never tried anything in that direction.)
4. Play a powerpoint presentation - though I hate the package it's typically in use at all companies everywhere. Come to think of it, I wouldn't have to play the presentation itself, I actually might be able to use an external package to convert it to an avi or something. Though that's perhaps not the preferred route
5. Remotely managable - not a big issue either. Place all files to be presented in a shared folder and let the software handle it.
Pfew. Quite a challenge, and yet it seems somehow manageable. Anyone who can point me in the right direction?
