"Desktop" cRIO

[Steve_Alaniz]

Originally Posted by byteit101

I was thinking about the crio the other day, and I had a radical idea: you could make a fully functioning "Desktop" on the cRIO.

for a screen, you can use the DS, and print out stuff, use a custom Dashboard, or using the imaqSetPixel function in C++, draw graphics to an Image,and feed them to a modified PCVideoServer, and view it on LabVIEW's Dashboard.
For a Mouse, you could use a joystick to move X and Y, two potentiometers, a Dashboard with a socket connection to the cRIO, or, use a HID mouse.
For a Keybard (best part!) CORRECLY Wire up a keyboard to the 8 digital inputs, and use a C++ union bitfield to convert it to a char, or be boring and use a custom dashboard.

I would love to see someone do this, just a simple text editor would be cool If we have time after our break ends, we might try some of this (at least the keyboard!)

WOW....... Just for the record... You may NOT date my daughter....

Steve