Cash Register Display

[Mike Comeau]

Hello All,

Sorry, I do not post often however I thoroughly respect and appreciate all of the hard work, comments and examples in these forums.

I produce very complex code for the security industry and the Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) arena.

My base OS was coded in PB DOS (1993~) and sets up a robust multi-tasking OS Tactical Operating System (TOS) that provides both in Vehicle and Ground Command and Control of a UAS in very high speed (thanks PB) real time.

Fast forward, almost everything I do is in PB CC with NO user interface, all commands are received via an RS-232 interface.

This interface has been from a feed from a FoxPro application that sends my system commands that are far too slow to land a plane let alone targeting commands.

A commander has requested that I produce a Touch Screen (resistive) interface that provides: 1 inch square (Minimum) buttons, on a screen with NO Windows Task Bar (Available via special key sequence) that can provide a dynamically controlled interface depending on the input, while wearing battle gloves.

The typical restaurant order screen is exactly what he wants.

Finally, the question:

Can I do this in PB CC using graphics or do I do it in PB Win.

PB CC is my choice.

Thanks All,
Mike Comeau

You can see our product at: www.blackfly.us/autoswarmvideo.wmv
The file is a 80MB wmv file.

Thanks.

[Kev Peel]

If the touch screen driver works like a mouse then YES, a PB graphics window can be used to paint the interface and then detect the "clicks" (tabs) as usual.
Another way would be via an SDK window (CreateWindowEx) and detect the clicks through that.

[Mike Comeau]

Kev, The touch screen drivers do emulate the mouse exactly after calibrating.

Thanks,
Mike

[Scott Slater]

Kev, The touch screen drivers do emulate the mouse exactly after calibrating.

They should be very accurate and emulate "single-click" mouse events. Make sure that when you are calibrating that you are standing at the same angle, and if using gloves, calibrate with the gloves. Sometimes the calibration needs to be redone in certain instances.

[Scott Slater]

...on a screen with NO Windows Task Bar.

You can set your window property to have the "TOPMOST" property in order to cover up the task bar. Setting it back will allow the task bar to be shown.

' Set To Topmost
SetWindowPos hWin, %HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, %SWP_NOSIZE Or %SWP_NOMOVE
 
' Remove Topmost
SetWindowPos hWin, %HWND_NOTOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, %SWP_NOSIZE Or %SWP_NOMOVE

[Mike Comeau]

Great, thanks Scott.

[Eddy Van Esch]

You can see our product at: www.blackfly.us/autoswarmvideo.wmv

Impressive system, Mike.... :applaus:
The video too, BTW.

Kind regards

[Manuel Valdes]

Mike:

You can write a complete PBCC application in a Graphic Window, and the resulting exe will be very tigth and very fast. The code below mimics a numeric pad and may be can suggest some ideas.

Regards,

 
#COMPILE EXE
#CONSOLE OFF
#DIM ALL
GLOBAL Caption$,CH$,OPS$()
GLOBAL hwin,hvin,fnt1,PixW,PixH AS LONG
GLOBAL NO!,XS!,YS!,G%,ATE!,ATP!,ATH!,FH!,FV!,clk&,xm!,ym!,H%
FUNCTION PBMAIN () AS LONG
 LOCAL x1!,y1!,x2!,y2!
 DIM OPS$(60)
 DESKTOP GET CLIENT TO PixW,PixH
 x1=0
 y1=0
 x2=PixW
 y2=PixH
 Caption$=""
 GRAPHIC WINDOW Caption$,x1,y1,x2,y2 TO hwin
 GRAPHIC ATTACH hwin,0,REDRAW
 GRAPHIC CLEAR RGB(212,208,200),0
 IF PixW<900 OR PixH<750 THEN
  FONT NEW "Courier New",18,1,0,0,0 TO fnt1
 ELSE
  FONT NEW "Courier New",28,1,0,0,0 TO fnt1
 END IF
 GRAPHIC SET FONT fnt1
 NO!=10
 XS!=65
 FH!=PixW/1280
 FV!=PixH/1024
 ATE!=115*FH!
 ATP!=120*FH!
 ATH!=115*FV!
 GRAPHIC WIDTH 2
 GRAPHIC LINE(64*FH!,124*FV! )-(1218*FH!,124*FV!),%GRAY
 GRAPHIC LINE(65*FH!,836*FV! )-(1218*FH!,836*FV!),%WHITE
 GRAPHIC LINE(65*FH!,125*FV! )-(65*FH!,836*FV! ),%GRAY
 GRAPHIC LINE(1218*FH!,126*FV! )-(1218*FH!,836*FV!),%WHITE
 FOR H%=1 TO 6
  FOR G%=1 TO NO!
   CALL DITEC(G%,H%)
  NEXT
 NEXT
 GRAPHIC REDRAW
 GRAPHIC GET DC TO hvin
 DO
  IF hvin=0 THEN EXIT LOOP
  DO UNTIL CH$="" AND clk&=0
   GRAPHIC WINDOW CLICK TO clk&,xm!,ym!
   GRAPHIC INKEY$ TO CH$
  LOOP
  DO
   SLEEP(10)
   GRAPHIC GET DC TO hvin
   IF hvin=0 THEN EXIT LOOP
   GRAPHIC WINDOW CLICK TO clk&,xm!,ym!
   GRAPHIC INKEY$ TO CH$
   IF CH$<>"" THEN
    EXIT LOOP
   ELSEIF clk& THEN
    CH$=CHR$(255)
    IF (ym!>128*FV!  AND ym!<835*FV! ) AND (xm!>XS!*FH! AND xm!<(XS!+10*115)*FH!)THEN
     G%=1+(xm!-XS!*FH!)\ATE!
     H%=INT((ym!-(128*PixH/1024))\(118*PixH/1024))
     YS!=(10+118*(1+INT((ym!-(128*PixH/1024))\118*PixH/1024)))*FV!
     GRAPHIC WIDTH 2
     GRAPHIC LINE(67*FH!+ATE!*(G%-1),YS!)-(60*FH!+ATP!+ATE!*(G%-1),YS!),%GRAY
     GRAPHIC LINE(68*FH!+ATE!*(G%-1),YS!-1)-(68*FH!+ATE!*(G%-1),YS!+ATH!),%GRAY
     GRAPHIC LINE(60*FH!+ATP!+ATE!*(G%-1),YS!+1)-(60*FH!+ATP!+ATE!*(G%-1),YS!+ATH!),%WHITE
     GRAPHIC LINE(68*FH!+ATE!*(G%-1),YS!+ATH!)-(60*FH!+ATP!+ATE!*(G%-1),YS!+ATH!),%WHITE
     GRAPHIC WIDTH 1
     GRAPHIC LINE(68*FH!+ATE!*(G%-1),YS!)-(60*FH!+ATP!+ATE!*(G%-1),YS!),RGB(115,115,115)
     GRAPHIC LINE(68*FH!+ATE!*(G%-1),YS!)-(68*FH!+ATE!*(G%-1),YS!+ATH!),RGB(115,115,115)
     GRAPHIC SET POS(600*FH!,40*FV!)
     GRAPHIC PRINT G%+10*H%
     GRAPHIC REDRAW
     SELECT CASE G%
      CASE 1
      CASE 2
      CASE 3
      CASE 4
      CASE 5
      CASE 6
      '.
      '.
      '.
      CASE 57
      CASE 58
      CASE 59
      CASE 60
     END SELECT
     SLEEP 200
     CALL DITEC(G%,H%+1)
     GRAPHIC REDRAW
     EXIT LOOP
    END IF
   END IF
  LOOP
  IF CH$=CHR$(27) THEN EXIT LOOP
 LOOP
 GRAPHIC WINDOW END
END FUNCTION
SUB DITEC(X%,Y%)
 YS!=(10+118*Y%)*FV!
 GRAPHIC WIDTH 2
 GRAPHIC LINE(67*FH!+ATE!*(X%-1),YS!)-(60*FH!+ATP!+ATE!*(X%-1),YS!),RGB(255,255,255)
 GRAPHIC LINE(68*FH!+ATE!*(X%-1),YS!-1)-(68*FH!+ATE!*(X%-1),YS!+ATH!),RGB(255,255,255)
 GRAPHIC LINE(60*FH!+ATP!+ATE!*(X%-1),YS!+1)-(60*FH!+ATP!+ATE!*(X%-1),YS!+ATH!),%GRAY
 GRAPHIC LINE(68*FH!+ATE!*(X%-1),YS!+ATH!)-(60*FH!+ATP!+ATE!*(X%-1),YS!+ATH!),%GRAY
 GRAPHIC WIDTH 1
 GRAPHIC LINE(60*FH!+ATP!+ATE!*(X%-1),YS!)-(60*FH!+ATP!+ATE!*(X%-1),YS!+ATH!),RGB(115,115,115)
 GRAPHIC LINE(68*FH!+ATE!*(X%-1),YS!+ATH!)-(60*FH!+ATP!+ATE!*(X%-1),YS!+ATH!),RGB(115,115,115)
 GRAPHIC SET POS((XS!+15)*PixW/1280+ATE!*(X%-1),YS!+35*PixH/1024)
 GRAPHIC COLOR %RED,RGB(212,208,200)
 GRAPHIC PRINT G%+10*(Y%-1)
END SUB

[Mike Comeau]

Thank you all very much especially the code snips, this will jog the old brain, I will post the display interface code when complete. Eack touch screen displayed will be dynamically driven by an array of attributes, as well as populated with real time data depending on the status of the conditions requested, probably 30 or so screens.
Mike Comeau

[Eddy Van Esch]

Manuel,

I don't have PBCC, only PBWin. Is it possible to post a compiled exe of the posted source code so I can see how your program looks?

Kind regards

[Kev Peel]

Eddy,

It's PB/WIN compatible, just remove the #CONSOLE statement and it will compile and run fine in PB/WIN.

[Eddy Van Esch]

It's PB/WIN compatible,

Indeed it is, Kev. Thanks for mentioning that to me !!

Kind regards

[Rod Macia]

Change:

DESKTOP GET CLIENT TO PixW,PixH
to 
DESKTOP GET SIZE TO PixW,PixH

on Manuel's code to hide Taskbar.

BTW works very well, very responsive on my Touch Screen tablet PC (Vista 64)

Rod

[Manuel Valdes]

I forgot mentioning that the code could be compiled in PBWin 9, but not the same in PBWin 8, since it include some of the new features introduced with the last version. So, just in case somebody is interested, I am attaching the exe.

Best regards,

[Eddy Van Esch]

Thanks Manuel!!

Kind regards