SMART board (interactive white board) build?

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#1

Just wondering if there’s been any thought given to adding a device build for SMART boards and/or other interactive white boards? It would revolutionize the educational software market, as millions of these devices are already in use and it appears that school systems are on board. According to teachers I know who use them, there is a real need for more content, so it’s a wide open market.

FYI, SMART does make their SDK available for download, although I haven’t tried it out yet (still getting a feel for Corona)

http://smarttech.com/us/About+SMART/About+SMART/Working+with+SMART/Join+our+ecosystem
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#2

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#3

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#4

I’m a teacher who uses my SMARTBoard in class extensively.

Users don’t install any software onto the board itself. Really, the board is just a very large monitor with touch capability. If you want to offer apps for teachers to use on their SMARTBoards, you simply need to make them work in a web browser or on a desktop program. Then the SMARTBoard can project those apps to the classroom.

#5

Our new Win32 desktop builds will probably project just fine to a Smartboard, but if the app wants input from it, then it would need access to the SDK in all likelyhood, if its not seen as a mouse.

There are two paths to this… You can role your own. Josh has indicated you can build native plugins for Windows in this thread:

https://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/57623-support-for-nativenewtextfield/

or you can talk someone into building the plugin and distributing it via the Corona Labs plugin store.

#6

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#7

I’m a teacher who uses my SMARTBoard in class extensively.

Users don’t install any software onto the board itself. Really, the board is just a very large monitor with touch capability. If you want to offer apps for teachers to use on their SMARTBoards, you simply need to make them work in a web browser or on a desktop program. Then the SMARTBoard can project those apps to the classroom.

#8

Our new Win32 desktop builds will probably project just fine to a Smartboard, but if the app wants input from it, then it would need access to the SDK in all likelyhood, if its not seen as a mouse.

There are two paths to this… You can role your own. Josh has indicated you can build native plugins for Windows in this thread:

https://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/57623-support-for-nativenewtextfield/

or you can talk someone into building the plugin and distributing it via the Corona Labs plugin store.