Touchscreen Skin (1 Viewer)

[smithft]

Newbe here -
Echoing other peoples comments that MP is fantastic - Keep up the great work.
I have a few questions.....
1) I have a 8" touchscreen and would like some advice on which skin people would think would work best. I have only 5 or 6 items on homepage and need to turn scrolling off
2) I liked "Samsonite"s MCE05 but the last download link I could find didn't work. Any suggestions where I can find a download link ?
3) Has anybody started working on a dedicated Touchscreen Skin. Most of the skins are fantastic with superb graphics but can be a little hard to control with small buttons and a finger. Homepage is generally fine but in the submenus for pics, music, news, mail they can be a bit small,

Thanks[/list]

 

[itspac]

bluetwo mod

I am attempting to modify the bluetwo skin for a small touchscreen (7"). I dont have my screen yet so there may be somethings that change when I get it in.

plus there are plenty of setting to use, like big icons in video and music to make it easier to navigate.

 

[smithft]

Hi itspac,
Thanks for the reply.
Let em know if you want it tested.. (release or pre-release)
The main issues I have seen are the homepage scrolling (or getting access to the other items in "no-scrolling" mode) and the size of the buttons in many of the sub screens. Other than that it works fantastic.

I have an 8" Innovatek and even though it says it can support 800x600 it really can't with a max of 640*480 but at that resolution its crystal. I have been playing with the touchsreen for a while now and can write a list of comments/suggestions if it would help.

I have recently ordered a 15" touch screen (old POS system screen) and it should be here in the next few days. If you interested I can let you know how I get on. I wanted a "small" TV in the kitchen so we could use it to watch TV and also run MP to get access to music, news feeds, weather, internet, mail, etc..

Cheers
Frank

 

[itspac]

II want to see if i can change the way MP scrolls, been searching to see if that has come up before.

I will gladly take any comments or suggestion you have, because I dont know how it responds to the touchscreen yet.

Thanks

 

[mzemina]

Have you looked at this thread? Harley said he was working on it for use on touchscreen but it was bigger than you had wanted.

 

[itspac]

The main issues I have seen are the homepage scrolling (or getting access to the other items in "no-scrolling" mode)

thats the prob i have with project X. I'd like to figure out a way to control the scroll by push of a button control

 

[fathead]

This will be awesome if finished. My mate has just bought one of those LC18's with built in 7" screen, so this would be perfect.

 

[itspac]

ok, this is what i'm going to do. increase the size of the buttons and stretch the menu, I have for the most part, and then use the home pluggin to stop the scroll and arrange all the items i want in sub menus. that way i can have 5 main items and up to 5 per submenu... 25 total items available to choos from.

what do you think?

 

[itspac]

it's not complete yet, but I think I have enlarged most of the buttons, I am using it with my own menu structure and no scrolling.
5 main menu items and up to 5 below them. Like i said I dont have a touchscreen, and i'm a newbie at this.. so i'll take any advice.



http://www.dremagic.com/mportal/blackouttoo.rar


sorry the place I have this file is slow on the upload side, but its only temporary...

 

[first407]

Hi itspac,

I have recently ordered a 15" touch screen (old POS system screen) and it should be here in the next few days. If you interested I can let you know how I get on. I wanted a "small" TV in the kitchen so we could use it to watch TV and also run MP to get access to music, news feeds, weather, internet, mail, etc..

Cheers
Frank

Hi I am very interested how you are planning your "small" TV in the kitchen. I have started a tread here http://nolanparty.com/mediaportal.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=12376&highlight=
but maybe you already have a solution