At 05:44 + 07/18/2002, mike cash wrote:
When there is no interaction with the Kiosk (timeOut), then Dir.
plays a new movie which contains an mpg2 file that is basically a
commercial for the city. When that ends, the same Dir. movie plays
an mpg2 file that is basically an animated 'Main
Start logging everything that's going on in your kisok, then when you find
it down you can see what the last thing that was done.
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Hmm, well, if your script error issue isn't the cause of the problem
(it probably is), then try pulling the MPGs.
Well, unfortunately, bug was NOT the problem. Bug is fixed, checked on both
kiosks this a.m. and both machines were powered down! AAARRRGGGHHH!
Start logging everything that's going on in your kisok, then when you find
it down you can see what the last thing that was done.
That's a great idea...unfortunately I'm already doing that as well. The
problem is that most times the computer is turned off. If the comp. loses
power, then
Is it possible to write a .txt file describing where in the movie
Dir. is immediately before a script error? --Probably pretty basic,
but my brain is a little fried at this point.
You could set the alerthook to a script that has a breakpoint in it.
By doing that you'll be able to see what
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 20:59:29 + mike cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, unfortunately, bug was NOT the problem.
Bug is fixed, checked on both kiosks this a.m.
and both machines were powered down!
AARRRGGGHHH!
There was something similar a few months ago--remarkably similar. The
No, no, no.
I'm doing it in my current kiosk.
Every significant thing (such as added into my generic button class) that
happens logs to a file. WRITES to a file. As it happens.
So, when external .wav files were completely locking up my kiosk (had to
turn the computer off, half the time), I
So if you've got a screen someplace where video's running, and the user has
the option to leave that screen at any time, make sure you do a pause on
the video first, then leave the screen.
Also, something else occurred to me -- if there's a screensaver running on
that system, try disabling
Greets, I have a kiosk running in a very public place. Somehow, the
Director program is being exited out of, and randomly, the computer itself
is turned off.
The question I have is, how does one exit out of Director? Keeping in mind
that there is NO keyboard, No mouse (touch-screen
At 15:01 + 07/16/2002, mike cash wrote:
Greets, I have a kiosk running in a very public place. Somehow, the
Director program is being exited out of, and randomly, the computer
itself is turned off.
Something's crashing something. I'd bet a dlog comes up every once in
a while to the
Well, there's something going wrong someplece. Some more information
about what's happening is in order, as well as the OS this is running
on, what the program itself is doing, what version of Director you're
running, what Xtras you've used, and so on.
Duh, sorry about that...Dir. 8.5 running
At 16:39 + 07/16/2002, mike cash wrote:
Duh, sorry about that...Dir. 8.5 running on Win XP. DirectMedia and
BuddyAPI are only real xtras being used.
Flog flog flog. There. You're suitably punished. If you're using
DirectMedia, may I infer you are playing video? Used to be with older
Of mike cash
Sent: 16 July 2002 16:01
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Subject: lingo-l shut down a kiosk?
Greets, I have a kiosk running in a very public place. Somehow, the
Director program is being exited out of, and randomly, the computer itself
is turned off.
The question I have is, how does one exit out
At 17:39 +0100 07/16/2002, Paul Fletcher wrote:
Also another idea might be to use the 'alert hook' and put in a handler to
create a text or ini file to store the error that is occuring. This way you
can view what is causing the problem when it crashes!
Well, that'll work if it's a Director
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