alexsiskahn
January 22nd, 2011, 05:34 PM
I want to hook a 2nd PC up to my main PB PC & let customers browse the PB strips & be able to select a strip & enter in their email address. Outlook saves the unsent emails so that when I get home I just hook up PB PC to the internet & hit the "send/receive" command and the program will send all the messages.
Breeze browser can do this but the interface is not customer friendly. If the client double clicks on an image then the image gets blown up to full screen. AND ALMOST always the customer will click the RED BOX and NOT the THUMBNAIL button causing the program to close. I know from trying to do events with BB that this happens and it very annoying. Also BB has that size configuration screens to it which is gonna make most people ask what the heck?. It's my suggestion that perhaps Chris address these issues so the program is more suitable for a self service kiosk email platform. Maybe even the ability to preprogram an email message to come up like
"thanks for using ABC photobooth company" "friend us on facebook" etc. So every email is an advertisement.
A different image browser called Thumbs Plus is a little more user friendly because it opens up a Second window with an enlarged strip when people double click on an image.
So I have written a custom AHK script that automatically attaches the image to an outlook email message for either breezebrowser or thumbsplus. A big GUI on the top tells people to select the strip they want emailed and then to click THERE to email it to themselves. Pretty rudimentary, but I think practical.
I will be testing it out in the future to see how to make it more idiot proof.
Unless you also install a kiosk type monitoring program I'm sure some nerdy teenager will want to close the program and browse files on the machine, but hopefully the operator will keep a watch on the second PC and prevent that.
If there are other features people would like to see in this script please let me know.
Breeze browser can do this but the interface is not customer friendly. If the client double clicks on an image then the image gets blown up to full screen. AND ALMOST always the customer will click the RED BOX and NOT the THUMBNAIL button causing the program to close. I know from trying to do events with BB that this happens and it very annoying. Also BB has that size configuration screens to it which is gonna make most people ask what the heck?. It's my suggestion that perhaps Chris address these issues so the program is more suitable for a self service kiosk email platform. Maybe even the ability to preprogram an email message to come up like
"thanks for using ABC photobooth company" "friend us on facebook" etc. So every email is an advertisement.
A different image browser called Thumbs Plus is a little more user friendly because it opens up a Second window with an enlarged strip when people double click on an image.
So I have written a custom AHK script that automatically attaches the image to an outlook email message for either breezebrowser or thumbsplus. A big GUI on the top tells people to select the strip they want emailed and then to click THERE to email it to themselves. Pretty rudimentary, but I think practical.
I will be testing it out in the future to see how to make it more idiot proof.
Unless you also install a kiosk type monitoring program I'm sure some nerdy teenager will want to close the program and browse files on the machine, but hopefully the operator will keep a watch on the second PC and prevent that.
If there are other features people would like to see in this script please let me know.