Thread: AMP v1.0 Worklog

Hey Jdisenberg, take a picture of it in your car on the Xenarc (even it's in the ****ty resolution!) I'm dying to see it on a Xenarc! (4 days till I get mine!)

Here's an updated working screenshot of the working webbrowser with the current "skin" on it. It functions pretty well. I think there's enough space between the buttons so that you don't have too many problems with a touchscreen.

I swear to god I can't wait to try this out on a damn touchscreen

I'll upload this version the new webbrowser screen as soon as I finish the web browser favorites. Well, the favorites are finished, but I have one really small, but infuriating bug I can't figure out. Once I get that worked out I'll upload the version. I suppose it'll be a fully functional web browser.

As far as a war driving program, I have no current plans to do that myself. I'll add a screen off the main config where you can run external programs of your choosing, so that everyone can kinda configure it a bit more to their needs.



(lol I refuse to get rid of my round back buttons -- I want to keep some FrontRow feel to it!) - lol and if you find that video on youtube.. don't blame me for wasting 4 minutes it's my buddies from back in high school - 7 or 8 years ago)

Very nice !! LIKE LIKE !! Good work u 2 !!

Bug ?
When u quit AMP, and the shark is running it crashes :-)

Screens attached showing an 800x600 screen. Note that the image sizes have been halved to save space but ratios remain the same. The slideshow users the entire 800x600 scrren btw. Hope this helps

Originally Posted by aychamo

As far as a war driving program, I have no current plans to do that myself. I'll add a screen off the main config where you can run external programs of your choosing, so that everyone can kinda configure it a bit more to their needs.

Perhaps the items in the users dock can be read by default to provide a list via the preferences with a tick box or the reverse of the visuals screen. ie. you click on ones you WANT to run (or allocate to a AMP button to run). This would mean that in order to run an external program all one would need to do is drag it to the dock and set it in preferences....this then configures (like a preset) a button in AMP to run the app.... convoluted ?

maybe even another option in preferences to preload at startup....

just a thought...

Hey!

That's a reallly interesting idea!

It looks pretty neat wtih the orange scroll bar. AMP uses a certain system setting for calculating the gradient of the highlight bar. To change this, go to "System Preferences", and then "Appearance", and then "Highlight Color."

To be honest, I had never thought of changing the scroll bar color, it was just used as a reference. That's really clever of you to do that! And, to be honest, this is one of the aspects of software development that I think is absolutely fascinating. When users think of doing things in software that was never "intended." It's actually pretty damn amazing you can just change that color in system preferences and the scroll bar changes color immediately. (If anyone plays games online, it's amazing seeing the way people come up with to exploit the gaming engine,, it's truly fascinating)

Here's how I'm screwing around with it. Have AMP open, then Command-Tab to a different program and bring up system preferences -> appearance -> highlight bar. You can change it to whatever in the dropdown, or do "Other". Just have the system preferences window on top of the AMP window, and see it as you do it.

That's really damn clever man Good find!

- It looks interesting on 800x600! Are you guys having problems getting your comp's into 800x480? I hope it's not a problem. I'll find out soon enough when my Xenarc gets here (days and counting!)

- re: radioSHARK crashing. Yeah, I have that problem too. It's sporadic though. All I do is send it a message to shut down, and it crashes. I'm not really sure why. I guess the good thing is it isn't crashing while it's running -- lol! Are you Command-Q'ing out of AMP, or through the Shutdown menu?

I just got back from Superman.. Great damn movie! I'm going to put a little work into the radioSHARK favorites.

I've got the browser favorites' finished. It's an interesting system. As you know, everything in a touch screen environment has to work differently, and use as few clicks as possible, and yet be intuitive. I'm not looking at any other front end, so I'm just trying to see what comes easiest for me.

Basically, if you are looking at a webpage and you wnat it in your favorites, you click on the favortites button. This pops up a list of your favorites. From here, you can either click on a favorite that is listed and it will go to that page, or you can click on a + button next to the favorite, and it puts your favorite in there. Short, simple, sweet, and works great. - Also, in this updated browser your "Home" page is your first link. (For now, I will probably change how this works later.)

Heres a screenshot.. Ahh, screw it, lol, here's the version to DL

http://www.aychamo.com/amp/AMP.zip

Hi Jakob!

I sure did - I emailed you back!! I'm working on that area now!

Ayhamo

.. I've love to see a picture of AMP running in 800x480 on a Xenarc!!