How to ..Kiosk Application

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hershrev,

well youve asked for a tall order here (pun intended). this sounds like a 
pretty complex little project you have got. its hard for the list to give 
a lot of advice on this grand scale of project design. some ideas:

your buttons in your colums can all be created on the fly or as a preset 
grid of buttons that you just set the labels on and hide and show as 
needed. labels can be set from a predetermined lists.

you can then have the owner modify the list with the new items from 
another screen with a touch keyboard an a create new category buttons to 
create each type. after creating a new item they will have to then link 
it to whatever other pieces that may be necessary (ie the side dishes 
that go with it) and the prices.

i have done the above with several slide show presentation programs (from 
video discs and dvds) and it has worked well.

as for the sql i suppose you can set you sql up in a modular fashon that 
could key off the items list  items names. not sure what you need to do 
with the sql, will this be doing order delivery via the net or just 
reporting orders back to a central data base, or taking orders via the 
web?

remeber you have to keep your touch screen buttons large enough for 
pudgie fingers to hit w/o hitting the neighboring button. test this well, 
it can cause a lot of errors.

cheers,

jeff



use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote on 5/10/04 8:57 AM

>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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