Feature Request - Lock Controls

qDslrDashboard feature request, ideas
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scifidude
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Joined: 14 Jul 2017, 14:09

Feature Request - Lock Controls

Post by scifidude »

Hi,
I'm new to qDslrDashboard having just started using it a week ago.
I participate in lot of public astronomy outreach and was thinking QD would be a good tool to show young children the view through the telescope without them having to look through the eyepiece. Children under 8 sometimes have difficulty knowing where/how to look through an eyepiece and frequently grab the eyepiece barrel which can move the target out of view.
My intent is to pass around a tablet showing the view through the telescope.
I could not find a way to "lock" the controls in QD, which is what I'd like to do once the view is set so as to prevent a child (or adult) from accidentally pressing a control and changing things.
Possibly it could be implemented such that pressing two or three controls sequentially in a particular order would lock/unlock access to the other controls.

Thanks for your consideration.
Scifidude.
dslr
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Joined: 09 May 2015, 21:42

Re: Feature Request - Lock Controls

Post by dslr »

"My intent is to pass around a tablet..."

instead of a qdd feature, try looking for an app at the os level...
search for something like 'touch lock,' 'touch protector,' 'touch block,' etc...

if the tablet is android, this touch lock app works well...
in addition to the screen, can also disable home, recent, back, menu buttons...volume keys but not the power button (an android policy)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... crape.king

i didn't try this app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... hprotector
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