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 generic MOOseum Guestbook, created by Percival/Tari, 8/8/99. Questions, problems, bug reports to Percival/Tari.]
The generic guest book allows the collection of names, email addresses, and comments from visitors to an event or exhibit.
To make a guest book, you need to make a child of the generic guest book:
create #245 named <name of your guestbook>
In addition to describing your guestbook, there is one more setup step you probably want to do. When people sign your guestbook, the prompt they see asking them for comments simply says, "Type your comments." You may want to make that prompt less generic so that people know exactly what to type their comments about. Do that with this command:
@comments_prompt <guestbook> is "<message>."
For example;
@comments_prompt <guestbook> is "Type your comments about the Medieval Castles Exhibit."
To read all the entries in a guestbook:
read all in <guestbook>
To read a particular person's entry or entries in a guestbook:
read <person> in <guestbook>
To read your entry or entries in a guestbook:
read mine in <guestbook>
To read a particular line in a guestbook:
read <n> in <guestbook>
where "n" is the number of the line you want to read
To erase an entry from a guestbook:
erase <n> from <guestbook>
where "n" is the number of the entry you want to erase; notice that the line numbers for entries in a guestbook are printed to the left of each entry when you read the guestbook
The owner of a guestbook can erase any line from a guestbook. Non-owners can erase only the lines that they wrote in the guestbook. Guests, however, cannot erase lines from a guestbook at all (guests are used by many different people, and someone using a guest character today should not be able to erase what someone else using that guest character wrote yesterday).
To clear all the entries from a guestbook:
clear (guestbook)
Only the owner of a guestbook may clear the guestbook
Docent | Exhibit Stand | Guestbook | Notepad | Random Narrator | Timecard