Re: Preventing windows from being dragged
Re: Preventing windows from being dragged
- Subject: Re: Preventing windows from being dragged
- From: "Kyle Sluder" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:31:44 -0400
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Steve Christensen <email@hidden> wrote:
> The great majority of Mac applications do not run in kiosk mode so for most
> cases preventing window movement *is* wrong because you take control away
> from the user.
Hold on, I don't agree with that. Taking control away from the user
is wrong except in situation where it's right, in which case you
typically want something like a kiosk. The way you've phrased it
seems like you're claiming that kiosk mode is wrong on its face.
Granted, for many kiosk applications, a full-blown Mac OS X install
might be unnecessary. For example, I have an application in the works
that requires an external control interface. The interface is
intended to be single-purpose, for completely non-technical users
(think the control interface on a medical device, or on a music
keyboard, or plenty of other similar scenarios). In my mind, I have a
choice: either make the control interface a standard OS X app,
allowing users the full functionality of the computer, or make a kiosk
app that runs on some stripped-down Linux distribution in single-user
mode. I still haven't determined which I'll do.
--Kyle Sluder
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