Providing A Choice Of Print Layouts

Updated: Jan 2021

The Scenario
You are planning a photo event using RightBooth and you want to let your users choose from one of three photo print layouts for their photos.
Note. This article is based on providing three layouts, but you can actually consider any number up to ten.

So how to do this?

The short answer...

• Create three separate event files to hold each of the different print layouts
• Create a fourth event file containing a menu from which the users can choose their preferred layout
• Tie everything together using RightBooth's event flow features

​Now for the long answer...

Step 1 - Create a Photo Capture and Print Event

• Run RightBooth
• Create a new event file
• Visit the Event Designer
• In the Event type tab:
  1. Tick Photo(s) and choose your photo capture amount. for example: 4 photos
  2. Untick the Video recording type
• In the Event structure tab:
  1. In the Start section, untick: Include start screen
  2. In the Choose recording section untick: Include the Choose recording screen
     
  3. In the Print photos section, select: Yes and tick: Save the print layout as an image file​
• In the Event flow tab select: first event in all three panels.  We will explain why later.

Now go into the Screen Editor and design the event screens.
In particular, design the Print layout screen with your first print layout in mind.

Read this article for a guide on how to create a print layout like the example shown opposite:

Save your event file, and name it: Layout 1

Step 2 - Create Your Other Layout Files
You now need to create two other event files that will contain your other photo print layouts.

• Ensure the Layout1 file is open in RightBooth.
• On the RightBooth main window, click the Save as button to save the event twice more, naming the files: Layout2 and Layout3
• Open each of these other two event files in turn
• Redesign the Print layout screens to have different layouts to suit your requirements
• Save the changes

You will now have three photo capture event files that are all identical apart from their photo print layouts.

Step 3 - Create Print Layout Images To Use In Step 4
Open each of your three layout event files in turn, play the event and take some photos using each one.  
The option 'Save the print layout as an image file' (set earlier) will cause image files of the completed print layouts to be saved to your computer.
We are going to use these layout images when designing your menu event in Step 4.

Now, locate these layout images on your computer, they should be saved in the following event folders:

• Documents\RightBooth7\Events\Layout1\
• Documents\RightBooth7\Events\Layout2\
• Documents\RightBooth7\Events\Layout3\

Copy or move the layout images either into your Pictures folder or better still, place them in the RightBooth Image Media Library within a new 'Layouts' folder here:

• C:\Users\Public\Documents\RightBooth7 Library\Images\Layouts\

Step 4 - Create the Menu Event
We can now create the menu event file as follows:

• Create a new event file in RightBooth
• Visit the Event Designer
• In the Event type tab:
  1. Select Menu
  2. In the Menu items text box, enter 3.
  3. In the table, click each of the menu items and choose your 3 layout files as shown in the screen shot:

• Visit the ​Screen Editor
• Select the 'Event menu' screen and alter the design and layout to suit your requirements.

You can re-arrange the menu items on the screen and change all the wording.
In our example screenshot below we've placed the menu items in a column, altered the prompt to say 'Choose a print layout' and changed the wording for each of the menu items...

Now for the most important part of our menu design...

You need to alter the menu buttons so that they show the three layout images on your menu, so:

• Show the Properties toolbox
• Select each of the menu buttons in turn and use the Image button (circled in red above) on the Button properties toolbox to browse and load each of your layout images into the buttons.

This will change the buttons so that they are showing your layout images.

You can now resize the buttons accordingly.  In our example you can see that we've altered one of the buttons to show our first layout image and we've resized it and re-positioned other menu items. 

​Now do the same for the other two buttons.

When you're happy with your design, make sure you save your menu event file.

Congratulations. Your design work is finished !

You can now play the menu event.

When the event is playing, users may choose a layout from the menu,  then RightBooth will automatically open and play the associated layout event file allowing the user to take four photos and have them printed on their chosen layout.  After printing, RightBooth will act on the event flow rule to return to playing the 'first event' again (the menu event) ready for the next user.  

So: 'first event' refers to the event file you start playing with the Play button on the RightBooth main window.

Remember:  For the event flow to work correctly in this example, you must always open the menu event file and start it playing with the Play button.