Flash :: Putting Together An Information Kiosk (planning Help)

Putting Together An Information Kiosk (planning Help)
Hi,

I wasnt sure where to post this thread as its more of a general question but im using FMX 2004, im new to 2004, but ive been using MX for a while. Anyway Im in charge of putting together an Information Kiosk for a University project and Im unsure on the architecture. of the Kiosk app. In particular, whether i should be using Scenes (as I know they are frowned upon) with simple 'goto' scripting or container clips.

Essentially the content for the Kiosk has been divided up into 3 main areas; Facilities, Events, Activities and within these areas there are sub-areas and so on. For example: The breadcrumb for the facilities area looks something like this Home > Facilities > Aquatics > Diving Pool. In this instance the breadcrumb indicates the typical steps taken by a user navigating through the Kiosk app to find information on the Diving Pool.

My question to you, if i may, is whether i should divide each of these sections into seperate Scene's and mainly used timeline based scripting i.e.

ActionScript Code:
facilities.onPress = function(){
gotoAndPlay("facilities", 1);
}

Or I just keep loading different MovieClips into a container clip i.e.

ActionScript Code:
facilities.onPress = function(){
_root.content.unloadMovie();
_root.content.loadMovie("facilities.swf");
}

The reason why i ask is because Im low on time (+im not getting paid) , and I will be using Server-Side script to load some dynamic data (mainly text) and im trying to make the whole app as compact as possible...

Any advice GREATLY appreciated

signed.. stressed out uni student

Putting Together An Information Kiosk (planning Help)
Hi,

I wasnt sure where to post this thread as its more of a general question but im using FMX 2004, im new to 2004, but ive been using MX for a while. Anyway Im in charge of putting together an Information Kiosk for a University project and Im unsure on the architecture. of the Kiosk app. In particular, whether i should be using Scenes (as I know they are frowned upon) with simple 'goto' scripting or container clips.

Essentially the content for the Kiosk has been divided up into 3 main areas; Facilities, Events, Activities and within these areas there are sub-areas and so on. For example: The breadcrumb for the facilities area looks something like this Home > Facilities > Aquatics > Diving Pool. In this instance the breadcrumb indicates the typical steps taken by a user navigating through the Kiosk app to find information on the Diving Pool.

My question to you, if i may, is whether i should divide each of these sections into seperate Scene's and mainly used timeline based scripting i.e.

ActionScript Code:
facilities.onPress = function(){ gotoAndPlay("facilities", 1);}

Or I just keep loading different MovieClips into a container clip i.e.

ActionScript Code:
facilities.onPress = function(){ _root.content.unloadMovie(); _root.content.loadMovie("facilities.swf"); }

The reason why i ask is because Im low on time (+im not getting paid) , and I will be using Server-Side script to load some dynamic data (mainly text) and im trying to make the whole app as compact as possible...

Any advice GREATLY appreciated

signed.. stressed out uni student

[CS3] Inputting Information And Retrieving That Information In Flash
I’m using Flash CS3 Pro and I need to create a form in which a user can input data such as their name, email and other information. Then when the user returns, they are able to input their e-mail address and pull up their information (name and other submitted data). I have search all over for a tutorial but I have had no success. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could show me how to create such a form or let me know where I can find a tutorial or information to create one. Thanks in advance.

Inputting Information And Retrieving That Information In Flash
I’m using Flash CS3 Pro and I need to create a form in which a user can input data such as their name, email and other information. Then when the user returns, they are able to input their e-mail address and pull up their information (name and other submitted data). I have search all over for a tutorial but I have had no success. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could show me how to create such a form or let me know where I can find a tutorial or information to create one. Thanks in advance.

XML Doc Planning
Before I start trying to get my nav together I just wanna check if the structure of my xml file looks ok or if there's some better way to write this?

PHP Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<navigation>

    <main title="ABOUT US">
        <sub title="Presentation"><![CDATA[ Presentation text]]>
            <image url="main1/images1/01.jpg" />
            <image url="main1/images1/02.jpg" />
            <image url="main1/images1/03.jpg" />
            <image url="main1/images1/04.jpg" />
        </sub>
        <sub title="Friends"><![CDATA[ Friends text]]>
            <image url="main1/images2/01.jpg" />
            <image url="main1/images2/02.jpg" />
        </sub>
    </main>

    <main title="BOOKS">
        <sub title="Book One"><![CDATA[ Book One text]]>
            <image url="main2/images1/01.jpg" />
            <image url="main2/images1/02.jpg" />
            <image url="main2/images1/03.jpg" />
            <image url="main2/images1/04.jpg" />
        </sub>
        <sub title="Book Two"><![CDATA[ Book Two text]]>
            <image url="main2/images2/01.jpg" />
            <image url="main2/images2/02.jpg" />
            <image url="main2/images2/03.jpg" />
        </sub>
        <sub title="Book Three"><![CDATA[ Book Three text]]>
            <image url="main2/images3/01.jpg" />
            <image url="main2/images3/02.jpg" />
            <image url="main2/images3/03.jpg" />
        </sub>
    </main>

    <main title="MAGAZINES">
        <sub title="Magazine One"><![CDATA[ Magazine One text]]>
            <image url="main3/images1/01.jpg" />
            <image url="main3/images1/02.jpg" />
            <image url="main3/images1/03.jpg" />
            <image url="main3/images1/04.jpg" />
        </sub>
        <sub title="Magazine Two"><![CDATA[ Magazine Two text]]>
            <image url="main3/images2/01.jpg" />
            <image url="main3/images2/02.jpg" />
        </sub>
    </main>

</navigation>

Sound Planning
Hi,
I have a flash movie which has got 5 scenes and from scene 2 onwards i am using sound. In scene 1 I have made a prelaoder. My problem is that it starts loading sounding in scene 1 frame 1. Is there any way by which the sound starts prelaoding in frame 2 of scene 1 or preload other scenes frame.

Problem 2.

I am using same sound in different scenes timeline. How can we by flash scripting call the sound from the library at the timeline.

Iam using F 5

Puneet Batra

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FREE YOUR MIND
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Script Planning
Hi,
I need help, ive been given a brief to design a system of drag and drop components, that can be used by an author without any flash experience to design any type of drag and drop!

Obviously there are a lot of drag and drop scenarios, i.e. one at a time / multiple, self-replicating drag item, how they score, how they react to a score, and many many others.

I have been asked to make a paper model first so that i don't get lost.

My question is what should this model be based on, im a self taught programmer, so haven't really used flow charts (should i?) etc, anyone have any ideas about where i can find "Planning tools for Programmers" , i have been refered to UML design patterns, although im relatively new to OOP best practice and am finding it a bit much.

Any idea's or general leads are welcome.

Presentation Planning
Hey! I'm building a flash intro/walk-through for a website and the company basically wants a linear movie that plays through but has a basic navigation so that users are able to skip through to the specific parts if desired. First, i had thought to build a Navigation file and then have the sequential movies load in as separate SWF's. Problem is, I have no clue on how to tell the next unloaded movie to load when the prior one is finished and have it load into the proper swf file, namely, the Navigation swf. I had thought also to just construct the thing in one swf file and have the navigation buttons jump to specific points through frame labels or attachMovie methods and such. But being that this is web-based, I would think that file size would be an issue. IF anyone knows of a script or a work-around to my little problem, it would be greatly appreciated...Thanks!

Project Planning
Hi
We have a concept and some ideas of what our Flash presentation should look like and do, but we don't know how to start translating that concept into a flash design.
can anyone describe the stages they take before hands-on coding, design and production begins? Anyone know of a good online source showing the pre-production, planning and desicion stages of a Flash project?

What we are looking at is a travelogue incorporating an audible (and captioned) audio track synchronized to call bitmaps (via xml), some interactive and animated vector graphics (maps), external html pages loading (in or outside the flash movie itself), and somevideo/ animation content.
Thanks

OOP Planning Help Needed...
Hi good people of Kirupa!

I'm struggling with something that should be fairly straight forward - planning my application in terms of OOP.

This is what I want to achieve:
1. Load external XML data (contains a list of images with captions)
2. Randomly select one of those images, and slide that image into view.
3. Wait for 10 seconds
4. Slide a ribbon in, across the screen
5. Slide image caption in, atop of ribbon.
6. Wait for another 10 seconds, then reverse the process
7. When the reversed process is complete, start the process again. This time with a new image and caption

So far:
I have set a controller class that initializes a Slideshow and a Backend class. Backend gets the XML data, and passes that as an XMLList object to the controller class, which in turns passes that to the Slideshow class.

I've used the Tween class to animate that image sliding in (see step 2 above)... Is that the best way of doing things? Should I look into the Animator class instead?

Problem also consists of triggering the animations. Since I've used the Tween class I have to wait for the MOTION_FINISH event to occur, which isn't always what I'd prefer. I guess I could work my way around that problem by using the Timer object?!. What is the best way to control chain animations (to simulate timeline animations).

I know all this sounds a bit vague, but if anyone have some thoughts on the matter I would be very grateful. Links to tutorials or forums etc would also be fantastic

Thanks guys!!

Planning The Layout Of A Project.
can someone please point me to a good read on how to build flash sites. not the code or how to animate. im looking for something that explains the best way to layout the site as far as have the navigation bar as a separate movie. make each section of your site an external swf. use dream weaver and tables to hold your flash site so you can have flash in the middle cell and have a background tiling image on the left and right cells.

i hope you understand my question. i just built a flash site and after all my hard work i found that if you resize the window all elements beyond the stage can be seen (how lame is that?). i dont know why flash does this. if you say you want your movie to be 800x600 then why would it allow items beyond that (off the stage) to be seen.

so anyway. im just trying to figure out the best way to layout my project.

im thinking about using dream weaver to plug in flash movies into cells but thats gonna slow my progress since now i'll have to learn dream weaver too. i really just wanted to concentrate on flash design.

also. i have a gallery (portfolio) section and i made each gallery sample a seperate external swf movie that loads if you select the thumbnail in the gallery. the movies are really small and i think they will load really fast so i didnt make a pre loader for them. is that poor design?

thanks for your help.

Help With Planning Project, XML Or PHP/MySQL?
I'm planning a project I'm doing for a client which is a fresh sushi bar. What I'm doing is a sushi online service! Customers should be able to register, log in and then pick their orders. Besides choosing dishes from the menu, the major purpose is to order customised plates (which will be very visual with a plate and drag and drop gfx).

I'm considering different approaches to acheiving this. The security is not an issue as the payment will be done cash on delivery and not online. The service will not have heavy traffic.

What I have in mind is not a design like a e-commerce shopping cart system, but rather a step-by-step interface.
Step 1: "Welcome! How many people are you?" input number of ppl-> X
Step 2: "Order #X Compose your own plate or pick from menu?" Compose: goto step 3, Menu: goto step 4. Repeat this X times, for each order.

And so on...! I think this will be much easier to do. Furthermore the order does not have to be stored (in a database or otherwise). It just needs to be sent with e-mail to the sushi bar.

My questions: I have very little experience with PHP and mySQL so I would rather do this with XML (to store user information and retreiving prices) if it's possible. How would this work? Is it ok to store the order in a variable inside flash before e-mailing it, or does it need to be written to a database? I'm worried about what happens if more than one user is using the service at the same time.

Please help me!

Planning A Website In Flash
Hi guys,

I have some experience in Dreamweaver and very little in Flash (just got Studio 8). I'm currently learning some drawing and animation techniques and plan to move on to some light actionscripting in order to create a simple website.

Question: Does anyone have any advice on how to approach a website in Flash. For instance, with Dreamweaver, I set up a template to base other pages off of, but in Flash, what would be the logical approach to creating a series of pages that are linked together? Should there be a template, etc?

THANKS!!

C.G.

Planning A Flash Template With MVC?
Hi all,

I am planning to create 3 flash templates. But before I start I would like to know if you have got some info, advice or tips for creating a flash template in general.

Right now I am reading up on MVC design pattern. Would this be suitable for creating flash templates?

I am interested in the stucture behind a flash template in general. For instance, are those flash templates on templatemonster.com structured all same way??

Any information on the subject would be great

tx in advance

Anyone Ever Explode Clips During Planning?
What I mean is, for complex MovieClips or structures of your site, create an exploded diagram?

I find this helps a lot when you have a lot to think about and find yourself going back and forth between where you are going and where you have been.

http://mattkenefick.com/blog/2008/10...your-planning/

This is not a shameless plug. I felt the need to write about it because it personally helps me so much during my work.

Maybe it will help someone else.

Planning An Interactive Tutorial
I'm trying to build an interactive tutorial that has the following:

- Informational content
- 2-3 Interactive multiple-choice checklist (gives feedback whether the answer is correct or incorrect)
- Practice exercises (user selects answers and gives feedback when answer is correct or incorrect)
- Quiz (at the end, it tallies up the score, provide feedback on which is correct and incorrect, and gives the ranking feedback based on the number of correct and incorrects.

And the ability to navigate to specific sections in informational content, practice exercises, and quiz.

The question is, how does one plan for this when creating this tutorial? What would be the easiest way to go about this?

Can this all this content be built within one flash (.fla) file or does one need to create separate .fla files for different parts and make them appear as one tutorial?

I'd appreciate your assistance with this matter.

Thanks,

dreamcloudwolf

Site Planning Question
Hi,

Here is the scenairio, I have an ancient map with destinations on the
map, being sections of the web-site. I would like the map slowing
auto scrolling upon loading, and gaining momentum as the user nears a
custom cursor over the map section.

When she selects the destination, I would like that section to zoom-
in revealing the appropriate text box, video or form; a 3-D effect.
Can this be accomplished with the MX 2004 Tween and Transition classes?

As I was writing this, a colleague sent the following URI as an example:

example

Would the groovy Senocular tutorials be good for this?

Planning A Fully Site -?
how shall someone begin planning a site with the interface and colors...etc

Planning a fully site frm 0 to top

Planning For Flash Animation To AVI
Im about to start what is my biggest flash animation to date (estimated run time of about 20 mins)

a few animations i have done before , when going to transfer to AVI have come out looking orrible or have not worked properly.

Before i start, i was wondering if anyone had a few tips to aide us in planning this.

Chance,

Filmmaker, taken gentleman and He tan e epi tas

Website Planning For Newbie
Hi pple,

am starting to get into flash for web building and am wondering if anyone might know any good reference or advise when planning a website.

what are the consideration involved when doin a website in flash? say a website with 5 sublinks...

advise needed
many thanks!
david

Planning To Startup To Build A Educational CD
Hi,
I am planning to build aproject on Educational CD with help of flash & i am new to flash. could anybody help me how to start of with.

Help On Start Develop A Planning Board
Hello,

At work we have several printing presses which run 24/7.
We are in need of a simple planning system that replaces the excisting board with cards. I designed an asp intranet site earlyer, but it was still to complicated to use.

Now I have another idea. I'd like to create a replica of this cardboard in flash. A board where you can add a card which contains info about a job stored in a database based on unique id. The sole purpose is to be able to drag the cards around the planningboard like they do now with the actual board.

There are several things to know.
-Two kinds of users: Admin and guest (Admin can add, edit and delete)
-The cardlength has to be changeable to match the hours that the job takes place.
-The card contains a title which is the only thing that has to be visible when placed in the board. Only after dropdown, the rest is viewable.
-Guest users need an autorefresh of the content.

Does anyone know a similar script, or a good starter script for me?
I actually only need a square that is draggable and contains database content which can be edited.

Thanks for your time,
Sis

Planning For Shiit Computers... On A Core 2 Duo
Alright guys,

When your making your games,

How do you plan how they will look/run/play on others computers?

I get that we all basicly use the default flash video size... that sorts out monitor sizes.

And almost everyone know has a true bit graphics card.

But i made a game the other day, and it ran good on my pc, but it was sooooo slow at uni, unplayable -- when i checked the ctrl+alt+del thing, it said cpu usage was at 100% -- not good.

But it ran fine on mine.

How can you insure that most pc's will not have a problem running games.

Many thanks.

Event Scheduling/planning Site
I would like to make a flash site which is an event schedule among other things.

It sounds easy when I go over the requirements, but I have been away from using flash for so long, I might should instead post this in the newbie forum... I really can't remember enough to get started on it. I hope with a few pointers, the rust will wear off and I can do the majority myself.

I would like to set up one or more events on a calendar, and on clicking the title of any event, the details (date & time, description, attendees) are listed. While viewing details, a person can then RSVP for the party by clicking a button and entering their name...

So the calendar should look like a standard calendar, with event titles listed in the squares of the appropriate date. For now it is safe to assume there will never be more than one event per day...

Clicking a day/event will cause that square to grow to replace the calendar, displaying the following info: Date/Time, Event Title, Event Description, List of Attendees...

Code:
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Meeting of the Minds 7:00 PM on Monday, June 18, 2007 |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Description: |
| |
| This is the first biweekly meeting of the minds to be held in the |
| basement of our beloved president, Kenny Finklestein. At this |
| illustrious gathering, we will blah blah blah blah blah blah blah |
| blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah |
| blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Attendance: |
| |
| Kenny Finklestein, Johnny Walker, Bob Villa, Stuart Anderson, |
| Viola Patterson, Sylvia Dewitt, Brock Lovelace, James Madison |
| Jimmy Dean, Raphael Lamorne, C.J. Loogis, April Showers, Lee Lee, |
| May Merriweather, and George Costanza |
| |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
| To add your name to attendance, enter it here: [_________________]|
| |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
As you can see, I would like to allow pretty much anyone who can get at the site to enter their name as an attendee. The security will be handled outside the flash, for now.

Obviously I need to either use a flatfile (which would be fine), or a database (which also works)... I'd prefer to keep this as simple as possible for now.

Any suggestions on getting this going in flash?

Post Your Methods Of Project Planning
Please post your methods of project planning, right from the beginning, which classes to use, OOP or frame scripting etc)

...

When Planning The OO Model, When Do You To Start A New Class
Hey all,

Love what they have done with AS3.

Just not too sure when to start a new class or to keep coding away in the file i'm in.

I'm working on a really BIG project and classes will really optimise my work flow. Just not sure when to use them.

what guidelines do you follow when planning out the OO modle that you will be using for your SWF?

[advice] Planning A Flash Project
I'm looking for advice or literature on how to comprehend, plan and organize the development of a Flash Project. Does anyone know where I can go and also are there standards to plannign a project.
e-rase

Planning And Developing A Flash Website
Hey Everyone.

I was just wondering how you guys in the forum go about planning and creating a flash website? Do you draw it on paper, write a basic framework in flash or do you jump right in and start throwing stuff around the stage.
I know for me especially, that when it comes to designing a flash site from scratch there's nothing worse than staring at a blank canvas not knowing what to do next! I'm always starting things and then starting that thing again etc etc!

I would love to make this post a sticky so that all the replys that you guys make will be able to help people like me who are just stuck on that first frame (haha, get it) and don't know what to do next

Please post as many things as possible in regards to this subject as i'm sure it will help a lot of people out when designing a flash website.

Keep It Simple, Stupid - Need Some Opinions On Planning/coding
it seems my project is becoming more complex than it really needs to be, so I've gone back to the drawing board, back to the basics, and thought I'd try to think 'out-of-the-box', try a different approach or something.

http://www.geccogroup.com/flash/layout.html

this is what I'm working on.

the company has 6 divisions. when you click on any of the divisions, you will notice a color change, and a navigation menu for each division, as well as the relevant title of the section. You will also see a square on the center of the stage. This is where all the text will load for all the relevant sections - it is an empty movie clip called contentmc.

this is what I want to do:

I want to create a text file, or text files, containing variables (the text content for each section of each division). I want to load the relevant variable (e.g. if the user clicks "entertainment" and then "home" on the nav menu, the relevant text will appear in contentmc).

here's my question - HOW?! lol.

also, is this the right way to go about this? I think this is the simplest method, which is why I want to do it this way - but I'm open to suggestions, please help - the design is currently weak, but that can easily be changed, right now I want to focus on fixing the functionality.

Your comments, suggestions, and help would be greatly appreciated.

S.

Flash Search Engine, Planning. Need An Advice.
Hello everyone,

I'm currently in the planning process of making an Search Engine in Flash to get data from MySQL. Well, the database is pretty big. Data is cars list with loads of details. There will be around 400 ads, with picture urls, details and other stuff. Well, I think it's pretty big database, but I might be wrong. It's 10 kb of weight per car in plain XML.

Anyways, I'm thinking to write a PHP script that will pass query from flash to MySQL, get result, parse it and return it back to flash, every time visitor searches something. Well, at this point i'm not sure how should I develop this.

Looking at AS2, i'd pass the searching query via GET method ("result.php?make=Audi&model=a4") and tell the php to return an XML based result. That's how I saw it to be with AS3. But I'm not sure if this is a correct/best way to do it.

Dear friends, could you please advice me something? And if possible point out the best way you think of it to be done.

Thanks in advance,
have a nice day!

Loading, Stucture, Planning (100% Flash Site)
For example lets say i am building a 100% flash site.
And i need things in my site like mostly every site: "Navigation", "Content", "Background", "Animations", and so..

How you guys work those things out, with loading, preloading, or building from top to bottom.

Like background and layoutment.
You are using the first swf, and it got an onEnterFrame check?
But since you are needing to load external swfs aswell you can try to work with the movieClipLoaderClass?

Like for Navigation, content you are using XML. You loading this external from the first swf, but it got a load check aswell inside?

Like Simple animations.
You are attaching mc's and do create some animation by code with setIntervals, or onEnterframes.

How you guys combine all this together with loading and even with preloading (think of preloading more thumbs/for a gallery or smt.)

It a bit confusing for me for thinking of a structure (not for the positioning and so) but more when i need to right load or preload check.

Kiosk?
Would regular buttons work for a touch screen?
(like a kiosk)

Kiosk
I am working with our local state fair to create some educational kiosks for kids. I'm using Flash MX to create educational games.

My question, is there a way to show these in some type of kiosk mode so that kids don't jack with the operating system? What I plan to do is to simply give them access to a mouse and the monitor. I'll have the keyboard and tower locked away.

Obviously, this kiosk window would need to stay up for the duration of each day and not be able to be closed....so that subsequent visitors can start where the former left off (or restart the game).

Is this a code issue or am I in need of another outside program to handle the SWF file?

Any assistance or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Derrick

Cd Kiosk
Hey all!

Just wondering, does Flash MX let you create kiosk applications that can be burnt to CD? I know this is something Director is capable of, but can Flash do it? Cheers.

poLka

Time Out For Kiosk
Help! need to create a time out to go from scene to scene for a kiosk, can anyone lead me in a good starting direction. or do I have to import into director.

Flash MX Kiosk
Can flash mx be used to build an interface for a kiosk? Is there a link with information on building flash kiosks?

Kiosk Help Please Reply
OK so i am making a kiosk for my resume/portfolio. the thing is i have made all the movies, saved them all individually as .flas and linked all the .swf together. but when i go to publish, and i go to click on a link, it leads to a blank screen, so it is not finding the next screen??

how can i combine them all into one neat movie

thanks.

PS; i have been using the loadmovie function to jump between movies

Kiosk Application
Hi ... After spend lots of hours carefully reading the posts in each forum (maybe I missed a few) I finally post mine to get some help here... I'm a new flash user and I'm developing a project of a series of pages with a selection test, in one of the scenes, I have a form users should fill, I'm not familiarised with forms and I'm looking for a good tutorial/example. (I recently get Flash 8 and follow the form_component sample instructions but the actionscript don't seem to work, only when I copy paste the sample actionscript) anyway, I need to setup a couple of details for this form: The collected information must be saved for another scene and then add a button to print this collected form information plus an extra information text on the print section. How can I make this form save the information the user enter and how can I make it print to a local printer? this application will be used in a kiosk.
...Another issue is that I have to use a personalised button as the send behaviour, I can't make it work through skin the button component, I'm probably missing something... Any help will be fantastic. Thanks

Kiosk Application
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kiosk application
Hi ... After spend lots of hours carefully reading the posts in each forum (maybe I missed a few) I finally post mine to get some help here... I'm a new flash user and I'm developing a project of a series of pages with a selection test, in one of the scenes, I have a form users should fill, I'm not familiarised with forms and I'm looking for a good tutorial/example. (I recently get Flash 8 and follow the form_component sample instructions but the actionscript don't seem to work, only when I copy paste the sample actionscript) anyway, I need to setup a couple of details for this form: The collected information must be saved for another scene and then add a button to print this collected form information plus an extra information text on the print section. How can I make this form save the information the user enter and how can I make it print to a local printer? this application will be used in a kiosk.
...Another issue is that I have to use a personalised button as the send behaviour, I can't make it work through skin the button component, I'm probably missing something... Any help will be fantastic. Thanks a lot

Kiosk Design
can anyone point me to some good resources on interactive kiosk design such as websites, books, tutorials, etc.?

thanks!

Kiosk Keyboard
Hey guys Im having some trouble getting my keyboard to work proporly. Basicaly I have 12 input fields and when the user selects the input feild I want them to be able to type only within that feild. How ever I cant figuer out how to do that?

Any help would be great many thanks in advance.

Here is the file Im working with

[F8] Kiosk Setup
I am trying to find a new SWF Desktop application that turns your flash swf files into kiosk on your laptop - but for Vista...

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!!

Ronda

I Need A Reset For A Kiosk
I'm working on a Flash based kiosk. What I need to do is have it reset to frame one if it hasent been touched in 15 seconds. I really can't figure out the best way to do this. Can someone help?

Thanks,
Rich Allen

Kiosk Timing
Hi, I have searched before submitting this thread but to be ohonest do not know what I am searching for!

I have a full flash movie which is three parts. It is going on to a koisk and when it is inactive for say 3mins it must loop to the start.

I really don't have a clue how to do this. Any pointers would be a saving grace.

Cheers

Lindsay

NASA Kiosk
I work at Marshall Space Flight Center/NASA and I'm attempting to modify a kiosk that we built for the US Space & Rocket Center here in Huntsville, AL. I'm fairly new to Flash and our regular Flash guy is on vacation until late next week and we need to make some modifications the kiosk. The kiosk is running on a computer at USSRC with a mouse attached (the keyboard is stashed behind the display). The kids are finding the keyboard, plugging it in, and messing with stuff. We need to disable the right mouse click. We are purchasing Jugglor to accomplish this since we can't seem to come up with an Actionscript to do it. Now I need to disable 'escape' so it will stay in full screen mode. I also need to disable Ctrl+Q so it won't quit and write some code that will recognize a new quit sequence. Does anyone have any ideas about how I might do this? I, and the space program, would appreciate it greatly. Thanks.

Php Form For Kiosk
Hi
I need to create a form that upon submitting will populate a database without popping up any new windows. I assume that this is php just like the email form tutorial with some modified code. Any resources or tips on how to do this easily would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

_evan

Flash Kiosk On LCD
Hi Folks,

I'm working on an interactive kiosk to be dispayed on a 40" (hopefully smaller) LCD TV (Samsung).

Any tips on what size I should design my movie to be? I know when hooking up to LCDs I get all sorts of possible resolutions, many of which look distorted.

I'd appreciate some advice from anyone with experience at this - what size to build the movie and what LCD TV resolution to aim for to get the sharpest images.

Thanks!

FLVs On CD-ROM Kiosk...
I have an hour long seminar I have made into an FLV file that has 31 que points... I am using the Flash FLV Player compoenent to display this in flash so the user can have control of naviagting the cue points...

my problem is when I burn this to CD for people to use... I get very long delays when the CD seraches for the next que point....

Any body experience this... or have any ideas on how to fix this...

any ideas are welcome.

Thanks!

Developing For A Kiosk And Cd-rom
I'm developing an interactive application for a kiosk and the dimensions I've been given are 2650 x 1600. The kiosk will have a beefed up CPU and RAM but this application will also be burned CD-ROM and used as a marketing tool as well. And user system stats will vary of course.

This project is photo and video heavy so stretching images will look like crap in Flash.

My concern is that if I create the stage at 2650 x 1600 and use a frame rate of 30 fps it will drag be okay on the kiosk but probably drag rear on the CD-ROM.

So my question is what dimension and frame rate is a good catch-all for this project with the consideration of video and photos, if any? Thanks.