kiosk keypad navigation

[Lorne]

Re: kiosk keypad navigation

Heh, Corey, is that gonna be your next painting? [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

[Lorne]

Re: kiosk keypad navigation

Sorry to hear about your accident. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/frown.gif[/img]

To create a "button" on the menu page, use an Image Object (or a Text Object if you don't have an appropriate image handy).

Double-click on this object to access its properties. Switch to the Actions tab. Select the "On Mouse Click" event from the drop-down menu. On the left hand side, open up the "Page" folder. Drag the "Jump" action over to the white area on the right (this area is called the "action list").

A dialog will appear asking you what page to jump to; select the name of the page you want to jump to. (You can also select the "%NextPage%" option if you have all your pages set up in order in your project.)

It sounds like your clients want a sort of "video slideshow." In that case, double-click on the object that your video clip is in (a Media Player Object?) and select the "On End of Stream" event. Drag over a "Page - Jump" action, just like before, but this time choose the next page that you want to display. This will make AutoPlay jump to the next page automatically once the video reaches the end.

[Corey]

Re: kiosk keypad navigation

For what it's worth the defacto standard for kiosks is to have:

1. a "screensaver" teaser which starts looping anytime the machine has been untouched for a specified amount of time. Typically this is loud and catchy, an attention grabber. It also tends to be informative because it has been proven the majority of people don't actually even touch kiosks, especially at trade shows nowadays, they simply watch like a TV. Basically this is a general promo video loop. You can see this at work on any commercial video arcade game created in the last 10 years if you aren't sure what I mean...

2. Touching any key wakes a menu, help page, or starts page 1. Again, exactly like video aracade games work... If you walk up to a game while it's in demo loop mode and shake the joystick or buttons, the loop restarts.

More info...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[ed46]

Re: kiosk keypad navigation

got the kiosk done, thanks so much. I have another problem,, I am trying to place an mpeg 1 file on
a page, its 131 mb. I place it in the distribution folder, then try to drag it onto a page, and the program
closes. I try adding a media player object, and the same thing happens, how can I get that mpeg on a
page ??

thanks, ed 46