Leila,
I'm a little unclear as to what your "pages" would be, but it should be
pretty easy to do. If you are going to do it all in Director, then you
just send all of your navigation clicks through a function that would
write some information on what the user clicked. Or... you could
actually get that information from the marker they go to. (Hint: you can
enter multiple lines of text in a marker through the marker window. For
new lines it's Ctrl+Enter on Windows).
If your "pages" are web content then you could use the Microsoft Web
Browser ActiveX Control to display the web pages (I know ActiveX -
cringe-shudder). You can set the URL like this:
sprite(1).Navigate("http://www.apple.com/";)
And track what the user clicks in a behavior on the ActiveX Control
sprite like this:
on DocumentComplete pDisp, URL
put URL
end
I'm sure there are some third-party web browser Xtras that'll do
similarly as well.
Writing a CSV file will be pretty easy too since it's just a text file
and FileIO Xtra handles that pretty well. The biggest issue will be
managing the size of the log file. That sucka could get way huge fast.
You could monitor the size of the log file and when it approach a limit,
auto-generate a new one (log0.cvs, log1.cvs, log2.cvs, etc.).
HTH
Jeremy Aker
Leila Singleton wrote:
Greetings, List,
My firm is currently working on a kiosk project that, if our current
solution fails, might have to be done in Director. While I can do simple
Director work, I am a graphic designer, not a programmer, and my Lingo
skills are quite limited. As a result, should we turn this into a
Director-based affair, we will need to hire someone to do the following
(IF it is possible through Lingo):
- We would need some kind of solution that would track the path of a
visitor through various "pages" of content in much the same way that
Apache does for web sites; e.g., what buttons were clicked, what movies
were watched, dates, times, some way of differentiating between visitors
(probably time-contingent), etc.
- We would need to generate some kind of log of this activity that is
either written directly to a CSV file or can be easily converted to said
format. Also acceptable would be a log file like those Apache generates
that can be run through something like Web Trends or Urchin.
Is something in this vein possible using Lingo? If you say yes, awesome.
If you could do this in a time-efficient and cost-effective manner, you
may be the answer to our prayers. We are not interested in novices who
will take four weeks and thousands of dollars to develop this portion of
the project; we've already wasted money on someone who promised a lot
and delivered little at an astronomical price.
Again, this is not a guaranteed job; this is our fall-back in case our
current solution fails. If you can tell me if what I've outlined is
possible through Lingo, contact me via the list. If you are interested
in possibly working on this, please contact me off-list. Also, if you
are from/close to the Denver, Colorado area (or, even better, Fort
Collins!) I'm especially interested in hearing from you.
I hope sending this out to the list is not inappropriate; if so, my
advance apologies (but do note that a legit question is incorporated,
which makes this more than a mere wanted ad!). Many thanks for
considering this inquiry/call for experts!
Cheers,
Leila
Leila Singleton
Art Director
Kelly Rizley Advertising & PR, Inc.
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