touch screen for zune

LoyalistRevolt · Post by **LoyalistRevolt** » Mon May 19, 2008 10:01 pm

is it possible? Does anyone know were I could get one?

tom61 · Post by **tom61** » Mon May 19, 2008 11:26 pm

This is about 10 out of 10 on the difficulty scale. You'd have to interface it hardware-wise somehow, and get it recognize it in the OS.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Tue May 20, 2008 6:05 am

tom61 wrote:This is about 10 out of 10 on the difficulty scale. You'd have to interface it hardware-wise somehow, and get it recognize it in the OS.

Well if the Zune supports USB host, hardware isn't that hard. It would be writing some code, and getting it to run successfully on the Zune. I have to agree that the task is very difficult, if the Zune has a Linux project then you might be able to write a driver under that and get it to work, but otherwise I'd have to say, for you to do it... impossible.... or at least impractical.

LoyalistRevolt · Post by **LoyalistRevolt** » Tue May 20, 2008 12:21 pm

So what language would I have to know and where would I get the screen.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Tue May 20, 2008 5:33 pm

LoyalistRevolt wrote:So what language would I have to know and where would I get the screen.

Try ebay or google "usb touch screen" for finding the hardware. But you are likely going to have a hard time finding something that will fit right.

As for the language... I don't own a Zune, but if it were written by Microsoft I would guess that it was done up in C#. It would be best to research to find out exactly.