The second issue deals with your actual program design. I am guessing we are talking about a networked system that transfers the orders automatically to the kitchen and to a billing system. You can use an SQL database for sure, but given the relatively low amount of data contained in a restaurant menu, I would think you could just use a stack as your data storage. The structure of the data needs to be considered before you do much about the interface.
Once you have your data structure, then you need to write several different applications to use it: the kiosk module for customers to place orders, the editing module for the owner to change the menu and presumably some sort of display module for the kitchen staff as well as a billing module for when they actually need to pay for their meal. Each of these will need to connect to the menu data and each order will need to be stored, at least until it has been filled & paid for.
This sounds like quite a complex exercise, but nothing in it is beyond the scope of Revolution, so work out what data you need and how to store it, then take one module at a time and make it work. After that start bringing them together and debugging the communications.
Cheers, Sarah
On 10 May 2004, at 5:05 am, hershrev wrote:
Hello every body ,
I'd need some elaboration on how to build a Kiosk solution. (for a touch screen. There was a discussion perviously on this topic but just the start.)
The solution I'm targeting for is a take out (restaurant). A bit of detail , the owner must be able to add categories and menu items or delete.
The screen should have 3 columns, 1, categories i.e. main dish, side dish , beverages, deserts and so on.
The 2nd column should display all detail menus of the selected category of column 1, meaning , while category main dish is selected it should display chicken, beef, duck and so on in column 2 and while touching lets say the side dish it should display all side dishes. In column 3 in a list field it should display the item and the price of the selected item line by line as a list.
Now the question how do I build the screen to change the view as above create new items etc.? How do structure the layouts the buttons
how do I build them and how do I save them and how do I attach the SQL to them in a way it should be possible for a owner to do it without help?
Thanks very much , every bit info helps.
hershrev
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