Hello fellow area Linux users. This is my first root post on this mailing list, of which I have been a subscriber for a few months, so I hope I get this right. The last few months I've been developing a tool for using Mono at a lower level than it has been in the past. The general use case is to simply put it, is developing kiosk applications with Mono, and deploying them to a minimal Linux system. Right now, I'm using SDL as an interface to communicate with the frame buffer. (At some point, I would like to go lower and talk to the frame buffer and devices exposed in /dev/ without using SDL) The key component to this is exposing the frame-buffer as a System.Drawing.Graphics graphics context. (not using X11) The sample program I currently have written is a basic clock showing some simple effects (Drawing text, arcs, and using transparency and linear gradients) A screenshot of the sample application can be seen running under windows here: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rA2-96ysTLA/URB7-luv4lI/AAAAAAAABxg/8BXEABOsrDI/s656/Untitled.png The project is located here, and is published under the BSD license. https://github.com/longjoel/Sunfish Here are some of the potential use cases I see potentially being applicable. * Information Kiosk (weather, status dashboard, rss feed reader) * Car-puting * Industrial workstation (Zebra printers, Barcode scanners, RFID systems, GPIB Instrument communication) Thanks for taking the time to hear me out on this and give some feedback. Thanks! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130208/42ebc9cc/attachment.html>
