Hi, I use an touchscreen with MorphOS 2.x and I would need a kind of reset button (a button icon) on Ambient that when pressed a reset will be done and the MacMini restarts.
Any idea if this is possible and how? If someone has a solution, please let me know.
Thanks in advance for help!

Regards
Christoph

MOSSYS:C/reboot *doh*

Drag it onto the Ambient-screen or into a panel and your done.


Might want to add some icon.....

This makes MorphOS a great OS to hide your porncollection for your wife ! First we had encryption, touch screen compatibility and now reset-on-touching-the-screen ... and all that she thinks when she walks in the room: Oh my god, he dusting off his toys again "

'Dusting his toys'?

Yeah that one got me wondering too.


Thought that was what wifes were for .....

I can explain to her why I need a regular desktop, a laptop ... explaining why I needed a complete spare room was a little more difficult.
The only way to do that was looking trough her eyes and put myself in her place. Conclusion: I'm a grown up man that needs his own room because he's still a big boy with big toys...

And I guess I have to admit she might be spot on

It seems that you guys are not using the great MorphOS for the same as I do! In fact the touchscreen is used with an interactive presentation pannel in a private clinic. The presetation is done with Hollywood Designer, a 22" touchscreen and a Mac Mini 1.5 GHz is used as hardware. This installation is now running since 3 months 24h/day without any problems but if really needed, the customer could reset the system by pressing the reset button instead of getting a mouse and/or keyboard and looking for the reboot menu entry! Fab did kindly include a fullscreen mode as well as the fullscreen arexx command so it can be used in the presentations and so clients can only view the linked pages as OWB acts as a viewer only.

Images: http://www.rmsvideo.ch/morphos/
User: rms14@dmz.local
PW: rms4234

in the directory mos_28

img_2091.jpg
panel_with_reset_button.png

New projects like such pannels for outdoor use with 42" touchscreens for local tourist organisations are in development.

Perhaps in the future I could come up with some other "strange for you" help request's, but don't worry it will still be for such projects like the above one

BTW Kronos, could you tell what is the *doh* for?

regards
Christoph

@rms

*doh* as in damm_I_thought_that_was_obvious

No need to add it as argument to the reboot-command.....

> could you tell what is the *doh* for?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27oh!
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/d%27oh

Hi Andreas, thanks for the links... it seems that I really need to start watching "The Simpsons" otherwise I will never know all this subtile stuff like *doh*

Anyway here something else I would need to do and would need some help for, it is a script which copys the content of a directory from one partition to another partition automatically every night but also changes the prodection bits from rwed to only r of every file in the destination drawer.

I would use CyberCron to automatically start the process during every night but as the files are prodected (r only) as from the 1st night onwards I dont know how to do this. Any idea/help?

Regards
Christoph

@rms

Sure looks like a power off button to me, not a reset

doh!...

If you mean you want to overwrite files that are 'r' protected, just use the forceoverwrite argument of the copy command. Afterwards you'll still have to set the protection bits again though.