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Touch-Action
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Q: Is each object "touchable"?
A: Yes. Each object is a self-contained "smart object". It knows when it's been touched and it knows what to do when touched. Certain widget objects - like the Card Reader widget - contain additional smarts to them, like knowing whether or not a card swipe is a "good" swipe.
Q: What can each object do?
A: One of many different actions. Depending upon the object and whether or not it's a widget, each object can respond to a user's touch (click) and perform one of the following actions:
- Nothing
- Display a list of hidden objects
- Hide a list of visible objects
- Automatically change it's content (like an animated GIF)
- Print the current screen, another object, a file, or database report
- Place a telephone call (Touch-to-Dial)
- Go to any other screen
- Run another EXE
- Enter the attraction loop
- Record user selections in a survey
- Act as a keyboard and send keystrokes to a textbox
- Control the Web Browser widget (page up, forward, back, etc)
- Retrieve E-Mail
- Send E-Mail
- Start Pay-Per-View (start charging the user)
- Surf to a specific URL
- Surf to a URL specified by the user
- Scroll through a database
- Modify a database selection
Q: How is each action "programmed"?
A: Easily. Simply click on the Action tab of the Kiosk System Editor and click on the action of your choice. Kiosk-in-a-Box does the rest!
Q: What happens if there are no touches for a while?
A: The "attraction sequence" begins. The attraction sequence is a series of screens you have created. You are not limited in any way to the number of attraction screens. You can also define the display order. Each screen is displayed for a certain number of seconds before the next screen is generated. And of course you get to define this timeout! Refer to the Attraction Sequence FAQ for additional details.
