It's Puzzle Time

[Syverson]

I have a museum kiosk that will be on a touch screen. No keyboard or mouse will be attached. I need a way to turn off AMS at the end of the day. The museum closes at different times each day and those times change monthly, so a timer script is out unless I want to change the program each month. I can't use a small invisible quit button, since small (jelly covered fingered) children will be using it and are likely to press anywhere.

Any elegant, simple solutions?
Syverson

[Worm]

Elegant... I dunno.

First thought was to set up a table with the different times, but you stated it wasn't a "set" schedule any time. So the only thing I can think of is to use a hidden Quit as you suggested, but with a small twist to make it a bit more secure.

If you don't have a "keyboard", you could use a combination of button presses instead.

[Syverson]

I kind of figured that this would be a race between you and Tigger (depending who was on line).

This will be a great help to anyone who has a touch screen kiosk situation where the client doesn't want the user to have access to the windows interface.

Thanks again.

Cheers
Syverson

(Why do some people make this stuff seem sooooo easy?)

[TJ_Tigger]

You could use a timer as well that checked the time and based on the time of day and day of week you could then close after a certain time. Have it run every minute or every five minutes. This assumes that there are specific times based on Day of week.

Tigg