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• FxKeyboard: A Firefox keyboard for touchscreens (rawdev.net)

Creating a kiosk environment.
The tools:

• Touchscreen Monitor

The requierments:

• Firefox 3
• Linux
• Non-exit-able
• Onscreen Keyboard

As you might expect, I tried everything.

R-Kiosk. Perfect.

A inline javascript Keyboard. While it did what was needed, it fails on forms that are on the bottom of the screen and in Iframes. Good side: Language was dependant on the page’s language. But Fail.

xvkbd. While I did manage to place it on top of Firefox and lock it so people cant close or edit it, and change their language.. it was annoying to do so. Moving it around the screen more so. Porting it to win32 impossible. Fail.

Ok, lets try a different aproach.
http://stlouis-shopper.com/~jtjsoftware/software/vkeyboard.xpi is a firefox Addon I found. A simple tweak made it work on Fx3. Here is what I made. The first step in porting the app, is thus in bad shape. ~Win.

If there is enough interest in such a plugin for Fx3, I myself and the original author will continue to work on it. A lot of things are already on my mind that I want to do with this project. Suggestions ?

The language is based on the language of the currently viewed site/article. It comes with English, German and Slovenian keyboard but can be easily be fitted with any additional language. If you do create a language please send it to me so i can add it.

Download Module JoomKey 0.1.0

Tested on Firefox 3. Made in scope of the Institut-Oko Kiosk project.

(C) Marko Zabreznik

The Away3d team are pleased to announce the release of the 2.0.0 update to the Away3d engine!

You can download the update from the trunk in the svn repository:
http://away3d.googlecode.com/svn/trunk

or go to the downloads section of away3d.com where a new zip file is available:
http://www.away3d.com/downloads

Highlights of the update (posted on the site together with a new demo):

• Simulated phong shading (with blinn-phong specular highlights)
• Environment-mapped materials
• Normal-mapped materials (an open source first for Flash)
• Z-depth filter for large outdoor scenes
• Fog filter
• Straight-to-bitmap rendering for fast scaled views
• Surface caching for fast rendered lights
• Package refactor for easier learning of basic classes

/******************************************************************************
Description.: Send a complete HTTP response and a svg file
Input Value.: fildescriptor fd to send the answer to
Return Value: -
******************************************************************************/
void send_svg(int fd) {
unsigned char *frame=NULL;
int frame_size=0;
char buffer[BUFFER_SIZE] = {0};

if ( (frame = (unsigned char *)malloc(MAX_FRAME_SIZE)) == NULL ) {
fprintf(stderr, "not enough memory\n");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}

/* wait for a fresh frame */
pthread_cond_wait(&pglobal->db_update, &pglobal->db);

/* read buffer */
frame_size = pglobal->size;
memcpy(frame, pglobal->buf, frame_size);
DBG("got frame (size: %d kB)\n", frame_size/1024);

pthread_mutex_unlock( &pglobal->db );

/* make file */
FILE *filesvg;
filesvg = fopen("/dev/shm/svgpipe", "w");
fwrite(frame, 1, frame_size, filesvg);

fclose(filesvg);
free(frame);

system("/usr/bin/convert /dev/shm/svgpipe /dev/shm/svgpipe.ppm");
system("/usr/bin/potrace -s /dev/shm/svgpipe.ppm");

/* response */
sprintf(buffer, "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n" \
STD_HEADER \
"Content-type: image/svg+xml\r\n" \
"\r\n");
if( write(fd, buffer, strlen(buffer)) < 0 ) return;
/* read -> send file */

FILE *filesvg2;
filesvg2 = fopen("/dev/shm/svgpipe.svg", "r");
while (fgets(buffer,BUFFER_SIZE,filesvg2))
write(fd, buffer, strlen(buffer));
}

Link here.

Features:

• No Mysql needed,
• Admin page included but limited to one user/password;Adding, deleting files; adding folders,
• Lightbox,
• Automagic thumbnailing,
• You can also turn off administration and use FTP to upload images, once pages with new images are accessed, thumbnails will be created.

Requirements:

• safemode off
• apache server with php > 4*
• a little knowledge editing scripts

Setup:

1. edit to suit needs
2. upload
3. make folder with images

/*    RawGallery 1.0 GNU/GPL - RawDev.net
//        Derived from phAlbum (c) phphq.Net
//===========================================================
Customised 09 Aug 07 Marko Zabreznik hekos (a) rawdev.net
- Added PHP Sessions
- Thumbnails in subfolder
- Implemented relative resizeing for thumbnails
- Login now linked instead of login box on every page
- Logout implemented
- Embeded images, favicon and css into script
- Made image display name a link
- Rebuilt navigation
- XHTML validated
- Rearanged Settings
- Fixed bugs
- Made PHP 5.2.2 strict compatible
//===========================================================

This script is distributed in the hope that it will be
useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
for more details. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

Folder Images were taken from KDE

//=========================================================*/

Download: link.

You need img2txt from the libcaca-utilities and /dev/shm to be mounted and writable (or change to another location)

/dev/shm is present on most systems and is a mounted filesystem located on the main ram.

The source is in past the page brake.

First, a header to change: /src/httpd.h: 114

typedef enum { A_UNKNOWN, A_SNAPSHOT, A_ASCII, A_STREAM, A_COMMAND, A_FILE } answer_t;

Next, a hook: /src/httpd.c: 720

case A_ASCII:
DBG("Request for ascii\n");
send_ascii(lcfd.fd);
break;

And now, the main function:

/******************************************************************************
Description.: Send a complete HTTP response and a ascii html
Input Value.: fildescriptor fd to send the answer to
Return Value: -
******************************************************************************/
void send_ascii(int fd) {
unsigned char *frame=NULL;
int frame_size=0,i;
char buffer[BUFFER_SIZE] = {0};  if ( (frame = (unsigned char *)malloc(MAX_FRAME_SIZE)) == NULL ) {
fprintf(stderr, "not enough memory\n");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}

/* wait for a fresh frame */

pthread_cond_wait(&pglobal->db_update, &pglobal->db);

/* read buffer */  frame_size = pglobal->size;
memcpy(frame, pglobal->buf, frame_size);
DBG("got frame (size: %d kB)\n", frame_size/1024);

pthread_mutex_unlock( &pglobal->db );  /* make file */  FILE *fileascii;
fileascii = fopen("/dev/shm/asciipipe", "w");
fwrite(frame, 1, frame_size, fileascii);

fclose(fileascii);
free(frame);

system("/usr/bin/img2txt -W 100 -f html /dev/shm/asciipipe > /dev/shm/asciipipe2");

/* response */
sprintf(buffer, "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n" \
STD_HEADER \
"Content-type: text/html\r\n" \
"\r\n");
if( write(fd, buffer, strlen(buffer)) < 0 ) return;
/* read -> send file */

FILE *fileascii2;
fileascii2 = fopen("/dev/shm/asciipipe2", "r");
while (fgets(buffer,BUFFER_SIZE,fileascii2))
write(fd, buffer, strlen(buffer));
}

#!/bin/bash
echo "Downloading 395 pages."
for i in `seq 1 395`;
do
	if [ -s "xkcd/$i" ]; then
		continue
	else
		echo -n "`date +%H:%M:%S`: Trying $i ..."
		lynx --source "http://xkcd.com/$i" > "xkcd/$i"
		echo -n " Done. Image:.. "
		wget -q -p "comics" -nH "http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/"`awk 'BEGIN{FS="<img src=\"http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/";RS="\" title="}/<img/{print $2}' "xkcd/$i"`
		echo " Done."
		sleep 2s
	fi
done
echo "All done."

This piece of code does sometihng special, it takes the name of the image and uses wget to download it.

$n=1;
$vse=0;
while ($n < 410) {
	unset ($fajl);
	$fajl=file_get_contents("original/".$n);

	preg_match_all("|
<p class=\"quote\">(.*)<b>#(.*)</b>(.*)
<p class=\"qt\">(.*)

|Us", $fajl, $out);
	$i=0;
	while (isset($out[0][$i])) {
		echo '('.$out[2][$i].")\n".$out[4][$i]."\n";
		echo $out[2][$i]."\n".$out[4][$i]."\n";
		$i++;
		$vse++;
	}
	$n++;
}
echo "\n(".$vse.")";

And a parser that makes the final big file of everything, coincidentally also making the comments easy to read.
Comics make the most part of the download, with ~22 MB.

And as usual, the download link: LINK (22mb), or email me for the data.

So first i had to get them all, a simple bash script was sufficient.

#!/bin/bash
echo "Downloading 409 pages."
for i in `seq 1 409`;
do
if [ -s "original/$i" ]; then
continue
else
echo -n "`date +%H:%M:%S`: Trying $i ..."
lynx --source "http://www.bash.org/?browse=$i" > "original/$i"
echo "Done."
sleep 10s
fi
done
echo "All done."

Please, do not use that script, it is a strain on the bash servers, instead you can grab the original files at the end of the article.
After a couple of hours that was done, and i had my next script ready as well;

$n=1;
$vse=0;
while ($n < 410) {
unset ($fajl);
$fajl=file_get_contents("original/".$n);

preg_match_all("|
(.*)#(.*)(.*)
(.*)|Us", $fajl, $out);
$i=0;
while (isset($out[0][$i])) {
echo '('.$out[2][$i].")\n".$out[4][$i]."\n";
echo $out[2][$i]."\n".$out[4][$i]."\n";
$i++;
$vse++;
}
$n++;
}
echo "\n(".$vse.")";

The last line is to make sure i got all of them, 20440 at the time.
Ran it with shell, and piped to “final”: php parser.php > final

So, the conclusion was, the size of bash.org is ~5 MB
This are the files if you want them: link. (or email me)