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#17
Originally Posted by jmjanzen View Post
don't listen to these fanboys, rom. you can do what you want with your tablet, as specialized/focused or versatile/broad as it may be.



ya, it would probably be a huge pain in the stars. others have attempted similar setups, though, and if you have some programming experience and you can comprehend qwerty's suggestions, i say go for it. i see 2 problems, though:

1. you'll have to disable menu access to prevent all possibility of exiting full-screen mode and/or exiting the browser entirely, which means you wouldn't be able to use many of the features of the browser (looking at browsing history, for example). again, that's your call.

2. if you successfully prevent the user from exiting the program by any means, then what if the browser freezes or you need to tweak the setup somehow? i guess this is why qwerty suggested setting up a bootmenu. but bootmenus make me really nervous because if you don't know what you're doing, you could break your tablet beyond what a re-flash can repair.

so, how daring and/or tablet-savvy are you? you've got to be one or the other to buy a tablet and attempt this.
I fancy that i'm pretty daring and very web savvy so if it doesn't require a tonne of c++ programming i'm pretty much good.. this is my first foray into tablets because i don't like windows media remotes (they are all awful) and i would like to eventually control other stuff with the remote as well..

so i'm just going to replace the interface with a python based webkit browser (it looks like it will be a good amount of work but i think it's a good option). I would eventually like to use the hardware buttons (dpad, so forth) to just send commands to the server but it's not important at first.

and to all the fan boys... i've got an iphone. the nokia doesn't do anything better except have a bigger screen.... so it's gonna be a remote because i think it will do that really well.. also, i don't like hacky things, i don't want it to look like i'm running a remote application on top of something that is meant to do something else, i want it to be a remote, seem like a remote and respond as a remote should...

and if you want.. i'll send you my 810 for free as long as you send me a letter requesting it and the envelope is made out of 3 crispy 100 dollar bills.