I'm relatively new to Rpi but have experience with VB and c programming on microprocessors. I'm designing an application where I would like to use the 7" touch screen as a user interface for the public. i.e. buttons, text boxes etc. I'd appreciate any suggestions as to where I should start, ideally ...

No poetry from me, just the prosaic... In the spirit of those forums being a place where users help other users with problems, could I encourage you to say a little about the solution you hit on? Someone else might benefit from that knowledge and be saved the frustration you experienced. Yes, that ...

"There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, and every single one of them is right." --Rudyard Kipling. You're dealing with a technical subject that has many different ways to be solved. What, other than technical answers do you expect? The solution is to pick the one that works for ...

Does anyone know how to take the Geek out of Rasberry Pi. I want to use a RPi in one or more practical machine control situations. Trying to find information as to how to set up an interface from Netbeans on Windows 7 has been a nightmare. Just dozens of different ways to do it none of which work. L...

DougieLawson wrote:If you can make it to Winchester there's a bunch of old farts who get together at 8:00pm on the second Wednesday of a month at the Roebuck PH in Stockbridge Road.

Bit late to get back from Winchester but thanks anyway. I'll bear it in mind.

Thank you. Good idea and I've done so. Junction of Wiltshire/Somerset/Dorset

I'm not sure if this is the correct forum or if what I requesting or is it "the done thing"? Nothing ventured nothing gained. I'm going to give you some background so as you may, hopefully, understand my frustrations and what I'm looking for. I'm 71, by profession I was a mechanical engineer working...