Question:
How do I activate a voting task and how does the voting task in IMU work with the voting panel in VMU? |
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Answer:
Mostly you would "Add a voting task" in IMU. There is a built-in example
which is a "Favorite Beer" voting. The example shows how to set up all the voting features and parameters. You can activate this voting session in IMU and than VMU will automatically pick up
the voting settings when VMU is in PLAY mode. If you then go to DESIGN mode,
VMU will retain that voting session in terms of heading, categories, etc.
This is probably the easiest way to adjust the look of voting in VMU -- just
activated it in IMU, then go to PLAY mode in VMU, then into Design mode and
adjust the window as you need to.
Don't worry too much about VMU control panel, especially for voting. That is there for "advanced users". If this causes any confusion ignore it.
Add a voting panel in VMU. Then you do pretty much
everything else in IMU. You create voting sessions in IMU, you "Activate"
them in IMU, etc. All control for voting is done in IMU. It is only the
"look" of the voting panel that is controlled by VMU.
In IMU, you can make as many voting sessions as you want, but you can only
have one voting session ACTIVE in the BASIC package. You can also only have one voting
panel in the BASIC package. This basically means you can only have one voting session at
a time in the BASIC package.
There are three basic things to
voting in IMU. You "Activate it" and it will start counting votes and
displaying the results. You "terminate it" and it will stop counting votes
and also stop displaying the results. Once a voting session has ended you
must "Restart" it in order to Activate it again. The reason is because you
may want to know the results of your last voting session, which are stored
and preserved until you press "Restart". In any case, you can always get the
result of past voting session by looking in the Voting folder.
From IMU Make sure the Voting Task is Active:
http://www.textlive.com/images/faq/voting_active01.jpg
In VMU right click the screen and choose "Designer" from the menu. Make sure the appearance settings are not causing a problem. Check to see that the font is not that same color as the background, that the alpha blend is set properly, etc:
http://www.textlive.com/images/faq/voting_active02.jpg
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