{"id":1042,"date":"2008-06-05T23:38:59","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T22:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/the-clickstop-ui-taking-a-leaf-from-remote-desktops-book\/"},"modified":"2021-07-01T07:13:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T07:13:43","slug":"the-clickstop-ui-taking-a-leaf-from-remote-desktops-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/the-clickstop-ui-taking-a-leaf-from-remote-desktops-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The ClickStop UI: Taking a leaf from Remote Desktop&#8217;s book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Codename ClickStop is my project within the <a href=\"http:\/\/kalzumeus.com\/2008\/05\/27\/incredible-interest-in-the-30-day-sprint\/\">30 day product challenge<\/a>.   With ClickStop, you can let small children play on your PC without them damaging anything.   It puts a &#8220;click-proof membrane&#8221; across areas of the screen you don&#8217;t want them to click.)<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking about the ClickStop UI, and as it turned out, so was commenter <a href=\"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/30-day-challenge-clickstop\/#comment-4\" title=\"Bracken: 'Will you also have some text on the screen somewhere explaining what is happening and how to get out?'\">Bracken<\/a>.   Once ClickStop is up and running, it needs to present some sort of UI so that you can control it.  But it mustn&#8217;t take up any significant amount of screen real estate, because it might get in the way of what your child is doing.<\/p>\n<p>This is exactly the problem faced by Remote Desktop (and VNC, and any other remote access product).   The same solution applies, as shown in this (slightly rough, forgive me) mockup:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/clickstop-bar3.png\" alt=\"clickstop-bar3.png\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cool.   It could do the same slide-up-out-of-the-way thing that Remote Desktop does as well, but that&#8217;s probably overkill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Codename ClickStop is my project within the 30 day product challenge. With ClickStop, you can let small children play on your PC without them damaging anything. It puts a &#8220;click-proof membrane&#8221; across areas of the screen you don&#8217;t want them to click.) I was thinking about the ClickStop UI, and as it turned out, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entrian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}