Touch screen controlling a presentation

[ATGB]

Hi,

I need to create a projection for a museum where a touch screen will have information about some animals and control a projection at the same time. Is it possible to create it in animate cc? I have developed interactive screens for museums but have never done it for a dual screen. Is it possible to have something like that?

Thank you very much for your help

AB

[Colin Holgate · Accepted solution]

Going full screen seems to just use one monitor. But, one thing that seems to work well is to have two Flash Projectors, put one on each screen, and use the Flash Player Full Screen menu item. That gives you full screen on each monitor, where one would be the touch interface, and the other would be the video player.

There is a thing called local connection:

LocalConnection - Adobe ActionScript® 3 (AS3 ) API Reference

With that you could have the touch interface projector tell the video play projector what to play.

[ATGB]

Thank you very much, that seems to be what I need, now I just need to find how to implement it

AB

[Colin Holgate]

The document page does walk you through doing a test of local connection.

As for the full screen, you would have the museum staff open both projectors, drag the video one to that monitor, and choose the Full Screen option from the menus, then drag the touch screen projector to the touch screen monitor, and choose Full Screen for it too. Doing the touch screen second would be best, as it would then be the foreground application for the first person who touches it.

It may be possible to have a system script that could automate those steps, I'm not sure about that part.

[ATGB]

Thank you again, very helpful

AB