TODAY, CREATE. » Apollo http://www.todaycreate.com Home of the daily creative output and exploration of ideas for Mike Creighton, new media designer and programmer. Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:19:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 visp Release Update http://www.todaycreate.com/2007/08/25/visp-release-update http://www.todaycreate.com/2007/08/25/visp-release-update#comments Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:17:14 +0000 Mike Creighton http://www.todaycreate.com/2007/08/25/visp-release-update visp v1 Interface Screenshot+ view actual pixel screenshot image

I’ve got a long list of excuses and a short list of completed milestones. However, visp is still moving forward (believe it or not). Here’s what I’ve done since the first preview post:

  • Revised functionality (by taking a lot of the more complicated and not-100%-solid features out)
  • Revised interface size so that it’ll work with 1024×768 screens (since that’s likely to be the minimum resolution for most laptop VJs)
  • Created a consistent API for creating media modules, filter modules, and transition modules
  • Set up the proper destination site and domain along with the Subversion respository
  • Combed through source code to keep formatting and variable naming consistent
  • Fixed some bugs
  • Updated codebase to use the latest public release of Apollo (beta 1) and Flex Builder 3 (beta 1)
  • Rewrote the MIDI proxy to be usable with all MIDI devices and not dependent on Processing (to reduce memory and processing overhead).
  • Rewrote the input interface so that media can be controlled via on-screen UI elements (sliders and buttons)

I’ve still got some more items to go. I want to make sure folks have proper documentation and tutorials for creating their own media, filters, and transitions. I also want to make sure that simply getting the projects set up in Flex Builder 3 is very straight forward (i.e. step-by-step instructions). There will be a 1.0 release in mid-September; I have an Adobe Edge Newsletter article being published on visp, so it has to be done.

Thanks for your continued patience, everyone.

]]> http://www.todaycreate.com/2007/08/25/visp-release-update/feed 1 visp Delayed http://www.todaycreate.com/2007/05/28/visp-delayed http://www.todaycreate.com/2007/05/28/visp-delayed#comments Tue, 29 May 2007 05:01:38 +0000 Mike Creighton http://www.todaycreate.com/2007/05/28/visp-delayed I’ll make this short and sweet. visp doesn’t have all of its baseline features fully implemented. Those features include some really fundamental capabilities like MIDI learn, loading a module or filter from any location on your computer, or saving your “playlist”. Those last couple features hinge on some functionality that isn’t currently in the public alpha release of the Adobe Apollo runtime. A new preview release beta was released about a week ago which apparently updates the runtime to include this new functionality. This is not available to the public right now, however.

I want visp to be useful (and usable) for anyone that decides to try it out. So, I’m deciding to hold off on releasing for just a bit longer until the next public alpha / beta of the Apollo runtime is released. I might do a small “preview release” of my own that supports the current public alpha version of the Apollo runtime, but if I do, then the release will not have all of the functionality in it that will make it a useful application.

I’ll try to work toward that this week, as I’d love to get it into peoples’ hands. Thanks for your patience.

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