In FileMaker Pro you create a relation and drop a button on the portal (grid) and every additional record adds a button thru the relation. (if no relation is active the portal is empty) and uses the text for button name the field contents. Other wise saving buttons in seperate files , I think is a pain. Now back to the question how is it done in real db, ? ( currently I use PostgreSQL )
Thanks , hershrev
p.s. if you have a copy of fileMaker I could email you the solution I have. or if you want you could dl it from www.filemaker.com
On Thursday, March 11, 2004, at 07:34 PM, cteno4 wrote:
Hersherv,
hmm, well most kiosk applications are static content being displayed so
the user/visitor is just getting premade (or pre coordinated) buttons
that send them to screens (pages) of content. if you did need to have a
custom screen of buttons assembled on the fly from some user input (ie
like where do you want to go, do, etc) then you could have premade
buttons that were assembled on a menu screen by filling in a grid. you
could also just have metacard buttons and change the labels on the fly to
be real cheap and fast or custom button art and on the fly button labels
with fields over the art (could even use the field to catch the button
mouse events).
i am a little confused as to what you are thinking of building for a
kiosk application. maybe send out a description of what you were thinking
of building and what it would do and i can see if i can answer your
questions a bit more directly.
cheers,
jeff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 3/11/04 6:15 PM
Hersherv,Now when the user wants to add his own buttons how does that work ?
well its pretty much the same as any other metacard/rev app. you can
have
the screens built by db data and pieces on the fly or make cards that
have all the art/buttons on them. i have done it both ways. usually if
its a large project then ill have a card for each screen with standard
nav butons and then art in shared backgrounds and screen specific text
and media brought in from files on the fiy. if its a small project
then i
just art each screen as a card. for really huge standardized displays
you
can jsut make template cards that jsut fill in the blanks from files on
the fly.
Jeffrey H. Reynolds 6620 Michaels Dr. Bethesda, MD 20817
301.469.8562
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