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Re: Touchscreen director app in kiosk dies after light use

Subject: Re: Touchscreen director app in kiosk dies after light use
From: "Andrew Morton" <akm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:44:54 +0100
Newsgroups: macromedia.director.basics

Dava wrote:
> I've built a director movie as a front end for playing 6 x 3 minute
> long quicktime films. Publish projector as .exe, throw all files at
> the PC in the kiosk and all works perfectly for about an hour or so
> of continuous use. Then the video starts to stutter and eventually I
> end up with a blank screen with no response from the touchscreen.
<snip>
> Are the quicktimes (or director) eating up the memory of the PC and
> not letting go or something? How would I fix this?

Can you restart the projector every ~55 minutes?

You could have the same projector but with two different program names: use 
"open" from within each to open the other one, then "halt".

Andrew 



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