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What software to use to make an EXE for a touch-screen kiosk survey that can record results to spreadsheet?
I am building a survey-type-thing for a touch-screen kiosk. There will be 30 or so different "pages", and answers to various questions will result in the user being asked different questions later (they will get directed to different questions based on their answers; for instance, young men will answer different questions than older women).
Various components include:
- Drop-down list of age to choose from.
- button to select male or female.
- multi-select button grid (user selects "all that apply", then pushes a "continue" button)
I'll want the screens to fade in/out, and I want to be able to customize each screen with different photos faded in the background.
Most importantly, all information needs to be recorded to an external file (there will only be one external file per kiosk, updated with each survey-taker).
Since I have web design experience with Flash, I was thinking of using that for this project. I know similar things have been done in Director, and am open to other suggestions. I'd like to know what the best and fastest software would be for this job. Is there specialized software for developing something like this?
Various components include:
- Drop-down list of age to choose from.
- button to select male or female.
- multi-select button grid (user selects "all that apply", then pushes a "continue" button)
I'll want the screens to fade in/out, and I want to be able to customize each screen with different photos faded in the background.
Most importantly, all information needs to be recorded to an external file (there will only be one external file per kiosk, updated with each survey-taker).
Since I have web design experience with Flash, I was thinking of using that for this project. I know similar things have been done in Director, and am open to other suggestions. I'd like to know what the best and fastest software would be for this job. Is there specialized software for developing something like this?
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Thanks a lot, guys. I talked to someone who did a similar kiosk project in Director, and said they couldn't get rid of the Director "Frame" around the window. I don't know anything about director yet... If you guys do, do you know of a way to get rid of this "frame"? It's definitely unacceptable.
Since this will be a kiosk, you already know the display resolution it will be running. If you create the Director movie with the same resolution as the target display, there won't be any frame if you run the exe fullscreen
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great tips everyone. thanks.
I just spent a few hours using Articulate's QuizMaker. I spent hours making a beautiful quiz using their fantastically intuitive software... only to find out it doesn't actually do the most important (and obvious?) thing: record results. Basically, the user can choose to email their test score (not question results), but the test distributor (or in my case survey maker) doesn't get results. There's just no way to save results to an external file.
I'll be trying Trivanta Lectoris and Adobe Captivate. If those don't do what I want, I guess I'll go to Director or Flash. If anyone wants to chime in, please do (If you've used any or all of these programs, what do you think?).
Make a quiz, gimme the results when someone takes it. It doesn't sound that complicated...
I just spent a few hours using Articulate's QuizMaker. I spent hours making a beautiful quiz using their fantastically intuitive software... only to find out it doesn't actually do the most important (and obvious?) thing: record results. Basically, the user can choose to email their test score (not question results), but the test distributor (or in my case survey maker) doesn't get results. There's just no way to save results to an external file.
I'll be trying Trivanta Lectoris and Adobe Captivate. If those don't do what I want, I guess I'll go to Director or Flash. If anyone wants to chime in, please do (If you've used any or all of these programs, what do you think?).
Make a quiz, gimme the results when someone takes it. It doesn't sound that complicated...
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If anyone else comes across this topic, I'm leaning towards using Moodle (free LMS I've already got running on a server) in conjunction with either Adobe Captivate or Articulate Quizmaker. I'm not entirely sure they're going to do what I want, but I'm not finding anything else that comes close (besides a couple apps costing many thousands of dollars, and don't create very graphically pleasing surveys at all).
Anyway, thanks everyone for your help. I'll be posting another question soon regarding use of Captivate and Moodle.
Anyway, thanks everyone for your help. I'll be posting another question soon regarding use of Captivate and Moodle.
I'd use Director for this project for a number of reasons.
It would be simple to arrange all your sections easily on the Director timeline, and using an xtra you could have very nice transitions between sections. Check out:
http://www.billeniumsoft.com/btx/index.htm
Question responses could easily stored in a list and saved to disc either as a text file using the free fileIo xtra, or using a database xtra such as:
http://www.web-cd.net/mdb/default.aspx or
http://www.xtra-ucd.com/pages/page.php?product=xtra or
http://www.paradigmasoft.com/en/products/developer/adk/V4MD
Hope this helps,
Chris.