This page is part of the documentation on the MOOseum Tools Project, a collaboration between Kalí Tal and ConnectionsMOO. The purpose of this project is to provide a suite of tools based on a museum metaphor to humanities scholars who are interested in integrating new media technology into their courses. The tools, currently under development, will be distributed freely as a suite, and will run on LambdaCore, JHCore and enCOre MOOs. If you are interested in beta testing these tools, contact Kalí Tal.
Items typed <inside angle brackets> should be typed without the brackets when you give commands on the MOO. For instance, if you saw the following command:
@create #624 named <name of your animatronic>
You would type:
@create #624 MyAnimatronicName
The docent is a complicated object and is comprised of two parts:
[The generic cue card folder, created by Xythian/Ken, 7/99.. Questions, problems, bug reports to Percival/Tari.]
A cue card folder is used to contain a docent's speech for a particular MOOseum exhibit. The speech is written on MOOseum cue cards (children of the generic MOOseum cue card, #629). Only owners and users of cue card folders need to know about them; everyone else can ignore them, as the docent will take care of reading the cards to them.
To set up a cue card folder, first create a child of the generic cue card folder:
@create #6201 named <name of your folder>
Then load the docent's cue card's containing the speech for a single exhibit (perhaps the speech for a whole room; perhaps the speech for just one exhibit stand--it doesn't matter as long as all the items the speech is about are in the same room) into the folder. If you need help making cue cards with your docent's speech, see the help for cue cards: or if you are on Connections enter `help #629'.
To put a cue card in a cue card folder:
load <cuecard> in <folder>
To remove a cue card from a folder:
unload <cuecard> from <folder>
To remove all the cue cards from a cue card folder:
empty <folder>
When you empty a folder, all the cue cards will go to your inventory, just as if you'd unloaded them one at a time.
To see the list of cue cards in a folder, in their current order:
cuecards in <folder>
To set the order in which the animatronic will speak the text of the cue cards it contains:
order <folder> is <cuecard1> <cuecard2> <cuecard3> (etc.)
To fasten or unfasten a cue card folder:
fasten <folder>
unfasten <folder>
Only the owner and designated users of a cue card folder can fasten or unfasten the folder. Fastening a folder locks it so that no one but the owner and designated users can load, unload, empty, or reorder cue cards in the folder. Anyone on a folder's user list can always unfasten a folder in order to change its speech.
To set the length of time the docent will pause between the cue cards of the speech in a folder:
timing <folder> is <number of seconds>
For example:
timing speech1 is 15
That command will cause the docent to pause 15 seconds between the cue cards contained in the folder named speech1.
timing speech2 is 20
That will cause the docent to pause for 20 seconds between the cards for speech2.
To add or remove people from the users list of a cue card folder
@rm-user <person> for <folder>
To see the list of users for a folder:
@users for <folder>
Only the owner can add and remove users for a cue card folder. Adding users to your cue card folder makes it easy for others working with you on an exhibit to contribute to the docent's speech.
To make your own docent, first create a child of the generic tour plan/docent:
@create #6195 named <name of your docent>
You may describe your docent the same way you describe other objects
@describe <object number> as "Your text here...
To set the order of the rooms through which your docent will lead visiters, use the @rooms command:
@rooms <tour plan> is room room room
e.g. @rooms tour plan is #6079 #1146
Docent | Exhibit Stand | Guestbook | Notepad | Random Narrator | Timecard