I've done a similar app, but it keeps a gui up awaiting a timeclock punch. You need to tackle this in phases: 1. what os and get the gui to start at bootup. 2. start a separate thread that reads/blocks on the coin.
you need more specific questions to get better help -----Original Message----- From: Jon Monteleone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 11:15 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Coin-operated kiosk written in python -- need some help... Greetings, I posted a few days back and didnt get much of a response, so I figured I would post again with more detail. I am running gnome under fedora core 4. I want a kid to be able to drop a quarter into a coin slot and get 15 minutes of time on an account that has "restricted" Internet access via the firefox web browser. We are experimenting with different ways to allow kids to safely surf the web during school hours while recovering some of the cost for bandwidth. I have written a python program that detects the coin drop and adds 15 minutes to a gui written in tkinter. The gui contains 2 buttons and the usage time. I need a way for my gui to display from machine bootup until shutdown and through multiple logins and logouts of the web browsing account. I am familiar with kiosk setups but I dont know how to code my python program to display its gui at the login screen and continue running through multiple sessions of users logging into and out of the internet acct. I thought making my kiosk program a daemon would work, but I cant get the gui to display at the login screen and then there is the problem of having the press of a button on my gui enter username and password information. Basically, I envision the following sequence of events... 1) Machine is turned on and boots up 2) My kiosk is started (maybe as a daemon) 3) The daemon uses Tkinter to display its gui with the buttons and time 4) User drops coins and time on gui is incremented 5) User presses the start button 6) My program logs the user into the Internet account 7) Secure firefox is started 8) My program starts counting down the time on the gui 9) When the time reaches 0, the user is logged out When the user presses stop on my gui, they are logged out The user can drop more coins at any time during the session to prolong the session 10) Timer resets to 0 awaiting the next customer to drop coins Any help on how to display my gui and log into an account using python would be much appreciated. Cheers -Jon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained in this message may be privileged and / or confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this message and deleting the material from any computer. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
