Touch screen, home automation and Qt

[tbscope]

I'm looking for some kind of iPad or HP Slate type of screen that I can mount on a wall.
I would like to create my own user interface with Qt.

There are a few problems I have with this scenario, the most important one is Qt.
Can I easily create a small application using Qt on the iPad?

Does anyone have any experience in this field?

[high_flyer]

I have been plyaing with very similar ideas for quite some time now, but have no time for this unfortunately...:rolleyes:
Anyway, for iPad, the issue is that there is no Qt port for the iOS yet.
I know there is one in progress though, you can google it, and see if its in any usable state.
But the touch pads market is growing, I am quite sure that if you look around you will find one which has an OS that Qt supports.
Depending on your DIY electronics hack skills, you could for example take a some sort of PPC board and run embedded Linux with Qt on it.
Of course, you have to make sure that you have drivers for your touch screen.

[tbscope]

Thanks high_flyer.

I know the HP Slate has Windows 7 (some version of it at least). So Qt is supported there. I just need to find a way to attach it nicely on a wall (including charging).

My father has a Siemens Logo plc for controlling different lighting circuits and other things. It has a little external controller with a 4x10 character LCD which of course is not easy to navigate in. So I wanted to put a touch screen in place. But if you start looking into ready made systems, you end up spending thousands of euro's/dollars.

[high_flyer]

if you start looking into ready made systems, you end up spending thousands of euro's/dollars.
And, it is not as fun as doing it your self! :cool:

[marcvanriet]

I considered an Asus EEE touch (EEE PC T101MT) once, which costed around 400 euro. But my wife liked it so she's using it as a laptop now...

Regards,
Marc

[high_flyer]

Yes, that is also a good way to go.
Now you can find them for ~300EU.
But it doesn't have a touch screen...

[marcvanriet]

But it doesn't have a touch screen...
The Asus EEE PC T101MT ? Yes it does. It is even multi-touch.

Regards,
Marc

[high_flyer]

Ok, learned something new today! :)

[tbscope]

I've looked at the Asus tablets before, but I think they are all running Android, on which Qt isn't supported (unfortunately)

[high_flyer]

There is a community port to android - but I don't know in what status.
You might want to have look.
http://gitorious.org/~taipan/qt/android-lighthouse

[marcvanriet]

I've looked at the Asus tablets before, but I think they are all running Android,

If you consider the The Asus EEE PC T101MT a tablet (the screen can be flipped around so it can be handled as a tablet), then no. It has an atom inside and runs Windows 7 quite smooth. I guess people have put some unix/linux on it already too.

Regards,
Marc