Thread: Flash Frontend

Just out of curiosity, how are you embedding the IGuidance? Can you control the display of it (displayed, not displayed) from Flash?

Jim

Yep, there's a function I call from flash, hideGPS. What I do is:

- create a panel through code on runtime.
- launch iGuidance in the background
- wait for iGuidance's main screen to be present (but still not visible)
- assign the parent of the screen to the panel I created
- size it all up nicely, and it's done.

With this, all I have to do is hide the panel... which in Delphi is simply
GPSPanel.Visible := False;

Im going to restart the music part because as much as I love VLC player, I can't possibly use it's horrible SDK. There's a component for Delphi but it's just absolute crap. I think music will be done in WinAmp and I'll decide on video once I get there. I love how VLC supports pretty much any format so I may have to stick to that or just get a huge codec package...

Originally Posted by colin

I've spent so much time on hardware that the software has been slacking. The GPS is now fully functional aside from reading NMEA headers.

*IMAGE*

I'm working on the radio screen now and hopefully soon enough Ill get the artist list component working like I expect it to.

GPS now reads the NMEA headers (well it should theoretically, waiting on parts).
Still working on the artist list component and the radio screen.
Radio works (again, theoretically, waiting on parts).
Music search function works.

Ummm... still waiting to receive my working GPS.
Radio skin done, functionality is almost done... it works.

are they any updates on this frontend??

Internally, yes.
I re-wrote the entire backend to be modular and efficient. When I was coding in Flash, I noticed a really cool way that I could call functions based on what page was active. I realized that would be awesome to do in Delphi too, and I wrote an event handler-type thing. Everything runs much quicker and smoother now and is WAY less confusing to code!

As for flash, since I changed the communication protocol, I just started working on it again yesterday. I have new ideas for how music should be laid out and I was working on that first. I basically have to code everything beyond the loading screen from scratch, which won't be too bad -- except I'm in university now.

There's updates, but no eye-candy unfortunately.

Hi, Have you a new version to download ?