Ongoing progress

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:08 pm

Fly up images is ready and working.

Things to keep in mind: First make a hotspot, select the image(s) you want to use, place the image(s) with the controls in "Hotspots" tab. Go to "Plugins" then "Place an Image".
Set the time for the image to go down (time is shown in milliseconds).
Select the type of transition you want.
Set the time for the image to go up.
Select the type of transition you want.
Adjust the scale for the image. If you have an image you have scaled down to 100x100 pixels or there about, but want it to be bigger, you increase the number in the Scale numeric stepper.

Finally Create Functions and click "Reload" on the preview window.

If you need to make some changes to the way the image (time or transition or scale) you need to click "Create Functions" again to overwrite the older functions, then "Reload" on the preview window.

That's all there is to it.

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:23 am

Also to keep in mind for the fly up images:

If you have a tour and want individual fly up images in each pano, you will have to:

Go to tourificator, click once on the hotspot representing the image you want to display in pano1, in the hotspot drawer, then you click once on pano1 (or whatever it is named) in the left list in tourificator (under "Tour Files") then you click the right arrow button between the lists. Then the selected hotspot is visible in pano1 and not any other pano.

Same goes for other flying images, just select the corresponding hotspot in the hotspot drawer and in tourificator you decide in which pano these are visible.

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:39 pm

Version 2.026 is about to be released, with a few improvements:
Radar sweeper in Mapper can be set to different initial positions.
Maps can be made visible/invisible with a hotspot.
If you have assigned a hotspot to load a new pano, the mapper will auto update the correct point.

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:55 pm

A change to the way the program Flashificates a project is in the works.
Right now, when you Flashificate, you can not do any more edits to the project you are working on.
The way it will be, you can Flashificate your project and still have it available in Flashificator for further editing. Flashificate as many times as you want, and still be able to continue editing.
When you are satisfied with the result, you can either cancel the project and start a new one, or close the application.

This is not as good as having a save system in place, where you can call up an older project, but still better than how things are now.

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 1:16 am

Next version will include the ability to Flashificate with pano.swf version 2.3.1 (Flash 10 compatible), deletion of tourfiles from Tourificator (not been possible until now). And a couple of things more that are absolutely of use.

No, the programmer did not go to sleep just because the save function finally finished.

Might become available 24 hours from now... since these things are almost fully done... but no promises.

After that, the next big things to be done; incorporate Tommy Wirestram's gmap plugin and the thumbnail sliding component he's done a fantastic job on.

... and all the small but important things have to be done as well... things that you the users have asked for (just ask again... if your request has been forgotten or lost by me).

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 4:36 am

Updating info on the plans here.

Limits will be in the next update (already been implanted). Of course there is the auto limit that applies limits to cylindrical panos, but with the individual control of limits, it is now possible to put effective limits on views, rather than using the borders, where the view is NOT effectively limited. One can zoom out, and view parts of the bordered-off areas. Not so with limits.

Plugins that are not yet done/implemented/prepared for:

AutoTour will make it possible to automate the panorama. At start it may be looking down, then go to position #1, zoom in and once there, start a video or a text or image or mp3 will start, then it moves to position #2 does something else... or just continues to position #3 and does whatever, then it changes to panorama 2 in the tour etc.

DONE
Camera. That is a play gadget as it is now. But should be included, so it will be included. More could be done with it, but that's a different issue for later thoughts.

DONE
Clocks. One digital and one analog "office clock" plugins will be made available, giving you the possibility to easily insert time devices into your panos, change colours of the clocks and move on to your next part of the design.

Dropdown Menu. There is a possibility to use the standard Flash drop down component... but that is really not a choice, since there is no liberty for the pano designer to change colours or other design of the components. So the programmer is going to have to make his own very customizable components, that you again can do with as you like in the panos.

Google Map. Tommy Wirestam's Google Map plugin will be implemented, and of course with his full accept.

FPP Analytics by Paulo Fernandes will be prepared for in the interface, with a link to his site, making it easy for people to buy the plugin and to implement it in their tours.

HTML Edit. This will make it possible for you to determine the size of the panorama on the html page, when not in fullscreen mode. Maybe some other SIMPLE things will be built into it as well.

DONE
Nadir Cap. That's just a simple way to place a nadir cap into the panorama. You will be able to choose two different methods; 1. Nadir cap image will be "glued" to the bottom of the panorama and turn with the pano. 2. Nadir cap will not turn with the pano, but rather "float on top" of the bottom. So if it is with company info, it is always facing the viewer in the correct position. Of course it will be possible to link URL's to the nadir caps, apply shadows and other effects as well. Placing a nadir cap can of course be done right now, but with this one it is a much faster process.

DONE
PicMenu by Tommy Wirestam. Another one of his great collection of plugins will be implemented in the interface, giving you an easy way to make nice tour menu's.

SnapMail. With SnapMail, the viewer of a panorama can make a snapshot of his/her favorite view in the pano, and email the snapshot/screenshot to friends and family, or it could be published in a blog associated with the panorama.

Time Limit. This one is aimed at those who provide a project for evaluation to their clients, or those who rent their panos to their clients on a per month or per year basis. The plugin will only keep the connection to the project open for as long as it has been set to keep it open. If the client "forgets" to pay the monthly/yearly fee, the connection will automatically cut off, so the client will not be able to link to the pano/project.

Zoomificator An area of the panorama can be zoomed into with a "spy-glass", without having to zoom the whole picture. Move the mouse around while in zoomificator mode, and the areas under the spy-glass will be magnified.

Unfortunately, bugs and errors are a part of the process when building an application (just ask Microsoft if you don't believe me.... or anyone who USES Microsoft software)... so there isn't really any way of telling when these things will be ready and done, but the plan is to do as much as possible in as short time as possible.

By now, the code for Flashificator is supposedly 1/10th of the entire code for Vista... (if you strip all of Vista's graphical elements away, and only take the operating system code itself)... and Microsoft has thousands of coders employed... I only have one programmer employed... so please don't be too hard on us when bugs and errors and other such crap stick their ugly heads out of the application. We do our best, but sometimes that is not nearly enough to catch everything that can go wrong. You are a good bunch of people, and I really appreciate your continued support and use of the software.

After the above plugins have been implemented/prepared for and/or made, when errors and small requests have been taken care of, the work on this version will come to an end, and the work on version 3 can begin (again). It will probably take the most of one year before it can be published, but it will be a version very different from the current one in look and feel. Learning from mistakes is what moves things into the right direction, and learn we have had to do. Soon Denis' version 3 of FPP will be published, and it will probably require a lot of changes/additions, but hopefully most of the new features can be built into the current version without significant time or issues.

Thanks to Firefox, this message was not lost... I had simply forgotten to send it. Managed to click 20 or so clicks back to encounter it again.

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:10 pm

Trausti Hraunfjord wrote:By now, the code for Flashificator is supposedly 1/10th of the entire code for Vista...

Ok... did I get it wrong? ... yes I did.

It's not 1/10th, but 1/1000th.

Just a minor error :shock:

... now corrected, so stop laughing at me! :lol:

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 9:27 pm

The latest errors have been "high class" errors... something that is not common and not due to simple things like bad programming, but rather due to complex interactions between different parts of the program, but at least these are getting eliminated, and that is the most important part. Of course it is frustrating to run into problems when working on a project... and I sincerely apologize to everyone who has ran into problems that cause lost time and effort.

More reported errors, followed up with links to .ffc files that contain the errors, are the best tools to help eliminating the errors on this end.

I can be reached on Skype under the username "hraunfjord". Go to "Contacts" then "New Contact" and put "hraunfjord" in the text field. Click "Find", I should be on top of the list with a red/white Peruvian flag next to me, while other family members are with the nice Icelandic flag next to them

. Highlight my name, then click on "Add Contact". In the text box where it reads "Enter a message to introduce yourself." you should put "Flashificator related" (or some such), and questions and answers can happen quicker.

Next version (2.052) will contain NadirCap implementation. Almost a single click operation to cover up the tripod hole with a company logo, copyright info or some such. Options are for a "Glued" cap, and a "Free" cap. (Free is not listed, but it will be free, unless one ticks the "Glued" tickbox.

Glued means that the nadir cap image will appear like a part of the bottom image, while the (default) Free cap will always face the viewer in the same position. Images can be reduced and increased in size with a "Distance" slider tool. Max increment of size is 100% more than the original, and minimal size is zero....so small that it's invisible.

Very easy to use. Anything else people might want to do with the nadir caps, can be done in Filters, Hotspots and Functions tabs, as one would do with other hotspots.

And then there is going to be confirmation of closing the application. That should prevent accidental closing and loss of work.

At the end of the day, the application will be bigger and better, so I am glad for the understanding people have for the difficult task my programmer has to face every day... even (especially) when it affects their workflow negatively.

by **mareintorno** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:59 pm

You are a beautiful river in the middle ... tell me the truth, you have been bitten by an animal in particular? E 'became a job to stay behind you, especially for those who have to translate everything ...
However, thanks to exist.
Alfredo

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:51 am

Thank you... I guess

Next version will include a digital and analog clocks, that are completely customizable.

Digital clock can display 12 hours am/pm and 24 hours time formats. The colour of the numbers can be changed at will, and am/pm can be given a different colour.
Hours, minutes and seconds can be displayed, or only hours and minutes. You can place a background hotspot for the clock in the pano, and a foreground, eventually with light reflection (png file, transparent with a little white colour to simulate light).

Analog clock is made out of the following components:

1. Background
2. Face
3. Hour hand
4. Minute hand
5. Seconds hand
6. Glass foreground

All are .png files. If one has a background image WITH a clock face, one can skip either file #1 or #2
The clocks will display the local time of the person viewing the pano.
A small collection of clock faces for the analog clock will be provided in "clock" folder, along with a couple of sets of hands.
Both clocks can be distorted into place, and unlike the "officeClock.swf" from FPP, there is no square pants background getting in the way of easy implementation.
Users can make their own designs for hands/faces/backgrounds/foregrounds.
A couple of "ready to deploy" analog clocks will be provided.

"Auto leveling" for autorotator will be enabled, with the kind permission of Duncan (Redshift-Blueshift). That is a feature that auto levels the pano when the autorotator kicks in. If the pano has been left looking at the ground or sky, it will go to predefined position, that could be 0° or any other angle.

In Tooltips, a "Next Line" button will be added, so that you can break up lines without typing " \n " to break up the line.

When you delete a Camera that has has buttons assigned, the buttons will be removed along with the camera, contrary to now, that the buttons would remain in the hotspot drawer.

Absolutely something to look forward to.

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:28 am

Latest news is that the clocks will be delayed.
Reason being that one of the components used in the making of the interface, is a standard Adobe component, and it causes memory leaks. For Flex applications there exists a fix, but there is no fix for Air applications. Nice to know that even Adobe can't make proper programming with their own tools :roll:

So the programmer will have to make his own component from scratch, a day of his work is already lost due to this.

Using the component caused complete stop on everything relating to garbage collection. Even the cube faces would not be removed from memory, and no matter if a computer had 32 GB of memory, it would run out of it quite fast during the making of a project.

I hope that making the component will not take long, but one thing is hoping, another thing is reality.

by **mareintorno** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:20 am

I realize the challenge that triggers when you have to achieve something difficult.
But are you sure it is worth wasting time on one thing, in my opinion, of little use?
Alfredo

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:29 am

It is all a "waste of time" in one way or another. What is useful for one person, is of no use for another person.

Everything on the current "To do" list, will be done, all the listed and grayed out functionalities in the "Plugins" tab, will be done. Now it is turn for the clocks to come through, and the faulty component will be made. Not only is it useful for the clocks, but also for other things. It will sure as heck be useful for version 3 of FFC, since it will enable much more visual interaction in the interface, and ease up on clicks back and forth.

I hope this can be done in a day or so... certainly not speaking weeks here.

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 1:45 am

Confirmed: The clocks will be finished tonight (what kind of a programmer is it I have?? Slaving through the nights as well :shock:

). Later today he will fix bugs known to him, and activation of the auto-leveling for the autorotator will be done... and then it will be released as version 2.053

Here a very non-techie screenshot (me + camera +screen)

: ClocksScreenPic.jpg (71.15 KiB) Viewed 4546 times

When adding one of the two standard clock setups, you simply click on the clock you want, the preview window will auto update and the clock is there. So it's a single click operation.

The following version will have Tommy's PicMenu implemented, and the version after that will have Tommy's GoogleMaps plugin implemented.

What happens after that, is still not decided upon, but probably it will be preparation for the FPP Analytics plugin, which has to be bought by the individual users and entered into the Flashificator installation folder, thereby enabling the button for it in the Plugins section.

by **tkerns** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 3:39 pm

Great work! You (and your tireless programmer) are really turning out the versions!
Any idea when the auto tour plugin you alluded to in this post
http://flashificator.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=861
will come?
I am very close to starting a huge project, and it would be a great timesaver.

Thanks!

Tom

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 3:49 pm

I think it's unfortunatly safe to take your hopes and dreams away. The autotour will of course be made, but it's also at the bottom of the list. It will need everything else to be in place before it's implemented in the program, so that future errors with it can be avoided, and so that it can do everything it should be able to do.

I haven't had a serious look at Tommy's "Commander" plugin, but it just might be of help for you while the autotour is not made.

by **tkerns** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 6:28 pm

So be it. I understand. Thanks for the honest answer. So are we looking at weeks, or months? Its not the end of the world, just is a lot more clicks to get done what I need. I have looked a bit at Tommy's new plugin after he announced it on the FPP forum. Looks interensting, but not what I need here. I am just looking for a quicker way to, when a hotspot is clicked to change the pan, tilt and fov to zoom into the area before transitioning to the next pano.

Thanks again!

Tom

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 2:51 am

After the next version is released (later today?), PicMenu is to be implemented.

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 8:21 pm

Version 2.053 is about to be ready, and will be uploaded to the Update section when it is.
As previously stated, it includes clocks, various backgrounds, faces, alpha faces (only numbers visible) and a few sets of hands.

The folder with these clock components will be placed in "C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\My Documents\Flashificator Resources" (on PC's) and "/Users/YourUserName/Documents" (on Macs) ... alongside with the Dashboards folder, that has been moved OUT of the Flashificator installation folder. This has been done in order to enable easier access to accessing these files by Mac users.

The clock components are pretty simple and basic, and you can (and probably will) make your own.

There will be made some improvements/additions to the clocks later on... such as when going for the digital clock, the preview window should auto-reload, equally when going away from digital to analog, and different time-zone clocks should also be available... for instance if you have a pano from some office that displays New York, Paris, Hong Kong and Reykjavik times on different clocks, one should be able to make the same time zone clocks, without having to change the angle of the hands to match the difference.

Autorotator now has the autoleveling feature enabled, and a big thank you goes out to Duncan from http://redshift-blueshift.com

With Tooltips, you can now break up lines by clicking on "New Line" button, which will insert \n into the tootips text (this works as a line breaker).

When deleting camera, after single button has been associated with it, the buttons will be removed from the hotspot drawer (it didn't do that earlier).

So there you have it.

Of course there might be some bugs, but I hope any such things will be reported back. Next thing to do is as follows:

1. Tommy‘s PicMenu plugin
2. 0-1-2-3 decimals for Hotspots tab alignment tools (and pan and tilt).
3. Version 2.3.1 to be moved to Flashificate button
4. Version 2.3.1 to be visible in the interface (not greyed out) and place info in the infoscreen about the need to rename and copy pano.swf to pano2.3.1.swf to the Flashificator installation folder.
5. Make FFC auto convert file names from Ptgui to the _f _r _b etc. Format
6. Infoscreen automatic scrolling as more things are flashificated.
7. During loading, a low res greyscale pano appears first, while the full pano loads.
8. Bug in video player: single button will be enabled regardless of it being a video hotspot or not.

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:50 pm

The following from the above list have been completed:

3. Version 2.3.1 to be moved to Flashificate button
4. Version 2.3.1 to be visible in the interface (not greyed out) and place info in the infoscreen about the need to rename and copy pano.swf to pano2.3.1.swf to the Flashificator installation folder.
5. Make FFC auto convert file names from Ptgui to the _f _r _b etc. Format
6. Infoscreen automatic scrolling as more things are flashificated.
8. Bug in video player: single button will be enabled regardless of it being a video hotspot or not.

Actually the implementation of pano.swf version 2.3.1 will be simpler to manage. When you start your application, it will search for pano2.3.1 in the installation folder, if it doesn't find it, it will inform of the following in the yellow info-screen:

Version 2.3.1 of pano.swf is not found.
Rename FPP's version 2.3.1 of "pano.swf" to "pano2.3.1.swf"
Copy and paste the file in your Flashificator installation folder.

After you have done that, default setting for version 2.3.1 is set to be enabled, meaning that you will not have to enable it all the time when you are about to Flashificate your projects.

A remaining error in the clocks was also fixed, and a new version will be released tomorrow.

Point 7 on the list: "During loading, a low res greyscale pano appears first, while the full pano loads." .... this will be done for CUBE FACES ONLY. It will be made so that the "Image Converter" will make a copy of the visual files, scale them down to around 300x300 pixels, gray-scale them and add the needed code. To have that done, should not be more than a single tickbox to tick, and the rest is automatic.

Point 2 on the list: "0-1-2-3 decimals for Hotspots tab alignment tools (and pan and tilt)." This will be done in combination with another component, where you can decide if you are going to flip the numbers on the numeric steppers with 3 or 2 or 1 or O decimals... which should be helpful in order to move things into place faster.

Point 1 on the list: "Tommy's PicMenu plugin" ... yes, that is the thing I am really looking forward to. In my view, it should be so that when you have added all panos for your tour in tourificator, then go to the PicMenu workspace, all the panos will be in their place holders. Double clicking on the placeholders for the images, gives you a chance to browse for images to use in the PicMenu, adding a short description and decide how wide and high the menu is going to be, and where it should be placed on the screen etc. Panos will already be linked automatically from the info available in Tourificator.

That's the idea I have... As always I am interested in what you people have to say... and unless you say it, I won't hear it.

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 4:44 am

Thank you for the input. Of course all the advanced things the plugin permits, will be available, but there will be some basic automatisation taking place at first... and you can modify/personalize afterwards as you like.

... as to my "free-time".... what does that two word combination signify?

After this present list of addons/fixes/implementation has been carried out, the next thing to do will indeed be the google map plugin.... and then I discovered that the context menu plugin is not working.... it was based on experimental code, and now the browser-world has moved on and seemingly resulted in the code not working any more. I liked it because it went beyond the normal text only context menu, by allowing insertion of images... but I guess it's better to make things that are guaranteed to work for a long time, than to make some fringe-code-things that are but a shooting star.

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 5:25 pm

Testing before next release is taking place. Hopefully I can find existing bugs and save everyone else from getting the problems.

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:48 pm

Next release tomorrow, and not today as it could have been.... a few bugs were encountered and eliminated. Points 1 and 2 on the list (5 posts up) will not be implemented in the release, and I don't know if point 7 will be ready. It is causing grief right now, but might make it into version 2.055.

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:25 pm

Finally some progress news:

The next release is being worked on again, PicMenu has been fully implemented (latest updated version by Tommy), and a battle with some rather serious errors is taking place. Some of the errors do NOT show on Mac's, while these are absolutely resulting in crashes on Windows machines, so now the programmer is going through the code and error tracking and tracing on Windows, and one by one the errors are being eliminated.

Hopefully. There are also some strange errors that show up visually, but do not result in any error message or "problems" .... such as the dashboard being located on the right side of the screen, while the dashboard alignment component shows it a central position (in a .ffc project that is opened up).

Next update will be better than the current version, but while the program is in development, errors and bugs and crashes are unfortunately to be expected... and everyone here should know that by now.

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 11:15 pm

Good news: The programmer got back on track yesterday, and has managed a lot since then. The picMenu is fully integrated and should by now be without any issues. There is a bunch of things that have been made better, errors and bugs hunted down and killed, and the promised stand alone projector for burning projects onto CD's DVD's has been made and is now in the final steps of implementation... some trickery needed due to paths it will be produced in. I prefer to have it in it's own directory, just like the default Flashificator directory is "My Panoramas", there should be a separate "My Pano Projectors" or some such directory created, in order to keep the two separated.

A simple thing, such as auto Reloading when "Enable Dashboard" is ticked, did prove not to be so simple an operation... which only goes to show that programming is anything but simple. It may sound simple on the surface: "Hey, make the pano auto reload when the dashboard is enabled... that will save the users from doing the next click they HAVE to do anyways".

It resulted in a lot of crap before it finally did what it should.

Other simple things, such as not having grayscale images auto produced for the project... not so simple... actually it would be quite complicated, and won't be touched upon now.

I still haven't got a copy of the in progress version, but it shouldn't take long before it is ready for me to test. It's only the projector's path issue that is tricky now. It will increase the size of the flashificator download file to around 10 mb.

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:03 pm

No release tonight...

We are sincerely sorry for that.
Things are looking good in development, but after the past few very buggy versions, I want a stable one to be out, and it still needs more time before getting released. Tomorrow, Saturday or Sunday should absolutely and completely be within doable time-frame.

I only wish my "wishful development schedule" was respected by reality... but there is quite a miss there most of the time.

Unfortunately bugs and errors are not always easy to track down. Sometimes there are no error codes to trace, no error registered, and that's when the programmer has to spend time going over the code in his head (tens of thousands of code-lines by now) and/or read the code and try to figure out what is wrong and why. All of that does take it's time.

On other progress notes: I am looking for an electronics engineer here in Peru, to make prototypes of 2 units that can be extremely useful for panographers and also for normal photographers. Getting a prototype, then patent... (yeps, going completely Imatronics on you all)... then production, distribution and sales... that's probably a couple or more years into the future. ... and due to the nature of the beasts... I can't reveal what those are (at least the patentable I can't).

Back on topic:

Sorry for the delay, but rest assured that this is only to prevent needless errors and problems on your end. I don't even have a copy of what the programmer is working on... so we are in the same boat.

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 11:31 pm

Here a little glimpse of what is coming your way:

http://www.flashificator.com/1/Diverse/DashboardBar

You can see the new (for FFC) button effect on the dashboard buttons, and then you click the dashboard banner.

by **terrycm** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:04 am

It would be brilliant to make that same effect work for other objects like hide/show the map.
-Terry

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:06 am

terrycm wrote:It would be brilliant to make that same effect work for other objects like hide/show the map.
-Terry

In the first round, there will be added a possibility for hiding any other hotspot in the same way... sliding them out of view downwards (no sliding to the sides or up). So if you have a hotspot at the top of the window and apply this function to it (one click after the hotspot is selected), it will go down at high speed... since it has to reach it's hidden position in the same time as the dashboard buttons... ... and that would look bad... but should you have other buttons /hotspots in the dashboard area, you can apply this sliding out of view function to those... for other hotspots there will be another one-click function available to clear the screen of hotspots, and that is to make them fade out (opacity applied). If time allows, this will be ready before monday... but as I have demonstrated many times, timetables including coding and programming are anything but exact science, and can move far away.

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 2:34 pm

Phase 2 of the current changes has finished, and personally I LOVE the increased flexibility the new functions offer. It's almost as big a step forward, as was the introduction of saving files in the program (ok, not quite, but it's extremely nice). Now the programmer is getting to phase 3... and THAT ... if he manages to pull it off... will be the greatest thing happening to FPP since it's birth (probably matching some - exceeding other - of the upcoming changes in FPP version 3).

Hopefully this can be done ... but there really is no way of knowing.... not even if it is doable beyond the theoretical "facts".

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 6:04 pm

Here you can see a part of what's already made possible in the version I am testing now:

http://www.flashificator.com/1/Diverse/ ... ointOfView

This contains:

Nodal Ninja linked hotspot that fades out when the dashboard is slid out of view (it's location is not clickable when it's faded out)
PicMenu expand button fades and slides out of view with the dashboard
Dashboard slides out of view, except for fullscreen button that has been chosen to be left behind
Individual opening view for all panos done with new and much better way than before
Individual limits are put on 2 of the 4 panos in this project

This is phase 2... which still will have more features to come in the future.

Phase 3 is in the works... and looks very promising. What it will do, is to blow your minds.... or blow mine (literally) if it won't work out.

by **sandy** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 9:24 pm

Umm, are you saying that effective in the next update I will have to delete a NN ad hotspot everytime I make a pano with FFC using the dashboard if I don't want my viewers to see an ad?

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:04 pm

Hmm... sounds like a good idea :lol:

Seriously though... It will be a nice update for you all to get.... but phase 3... or whatever it should be called.... it has proven it self beyond theory, now it has to be worked on, and the things it enables will be completely out of the realm of the handcoders. It will be a completely new level for FPP based works. Enabling things that can not be done with FPP even by the best of coders. It will need time for implementation of the first things it will make possible, and I don't think there will be anything publishable for at least 2 weeks.... probably more.

I'm so excited that I have a hard time shutting myself up about it.

If all goes well, version 2.062 will be released in a couple of days or so... I will be doing extensive tests with it, and try to make sure that the new features will not bring in a truckload of new bugs.

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 11:59 pm

Commenting on the latest post of mine: "Couple of days... haha... yeah, sure. Time goes too fast, there are too many things to take care of... and that leaves me in the dust of broken suggested promises."

What I can say with certainty, is that my wish is to have a release of the next verion to coincide with the 1st anniversary of the full commercial version of Flashificator, this 23rd of October... or some 5-6 days. I hope the programmer can make it... he is putting in a lot of effort and work to make this possible, so I do hope this can be reached.

In the meantime, you can have a look at what I have mentioned earlier... it was only "theory" back then... but has become reality now:

http://www.flashificator.com/1/Phase3/F ... Video.html

Yes. You can drag and drop cube faces into hotspots and have the whole thing ready for publication.

This IS the world's first, and surely others will follow. It has been a long winded road in the development, but finally it was advanced enough to move into new directions, and not only be based on the already existing structure of FPP.

Big steps... small program.

My sincere thanks go out to all those who have supported the project financially by buying it, from the day it was first released almost one year ago. Without that support, I would have been forced to either give up on my family, or give up on the project. So THANK YOU for allowing me to have both a family and the FFC project!

Ok... I wouldn't have given up on either... but without the support, I would have needed a lot more time.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I hope you like what you see, because what you see is what you will get... and some more!

The only defeat in development for the programmer until now, has been to get swf's to be controlled in real time. The FPP code seemingly doesn't allow for real time interaction with swf's... but when the time is right, I will try and have Denis to sort that out for us.

Click and enjoy!

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:46 am

Today is the first anniversary for the commercial version of FFC, and the plan is still to have a release with the "Phase3" features.

If yesterday had ended according to plan, I would be making short demo videos now, showing how quick and easy it is to do many of the things that have been more complicated in the past (still with current latest version).

That video work has to wait for later today... or whenever the program is ready.

Only a few of the features are worked in, but those few are incredibly time saving, and more such things are going to follow.

by **mareintorno** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:21 am

Tanti auguri FFC

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by **Bruce Hemming** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:39 am

Happy Birthday FFC - my how you have grown :lol:

Fantastic effort - well done Trausti.

Regards

Bruce

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:04 pm

Thank you's! Without your support there would hardly be anything to celebrate but a faint memory.

No champagne, no cakes, no relaxation.... today requires even more to be done than normally.

You will NOT be disappointed with the upcoming version (still to be expected within the next 10 hours), and Denis was so impressed by what he has seen of FFC "Phase3", that he decided to change his plans to be more streamlined with FFC. That will also mean that he can finish his update work faster than otherwise.

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 3:17 am

In the past hours I have been going crazy, trying to get the latest update online in the update section, but it has proven to be impossible for me to upload it there. Have contacted the hosting service to try and have them to help out.

If I need problems, I can always find them... but sometimes problems find me without being requested to do so.

This is really pissing me off.

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:17 am

4 hours fighting a stupid damn windows machine... .... and I give up. I can't upload anything, I can't download anything... I can't get anything done.... and I am about ready to smash the damn thing with a sledge hammer once and for all.

Why the hell is Windows allowed to be in production?

In the morning I will have things uploaded through the programmer's Mac.

... which reminds me of my own stupidity of having a PC crap. Hopefully I won't lose too much work this time when I have to format the damn computer.

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 1:00 pm

The latest update on behalf of the hosting company was at fault.
Default file upload size for the forums software is set at 2mb file size. By now, FFC is around 10 mb, and we had increased the filesize limit to 50mb.
Consequently, when trying to upload, it did not result in the file being accepted, but did not throw any error message, as it did months ago, when we had to increase the limit to 50mb.

So the latest update is online for grabs now!

Take it for a run and any FIRST thoughts you have about the new functions/layout, be those good or bad, are of interest on our end.
If you expect "A"to happen when you do "1", but "B" happens instead... (all of) you are welcome to let us know what/how you would like things to be.

I think it's logical and good as it is.... but that's just me.

by **Trausti Hraunfjord** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 4:14 am

The following shows the in-screen tools as things are in version 2.064

Tools description/placement:

First, click the move tool, then click the hotspot/video you want to move.

First, click the resize tool, then click the hotspot/video you want to resize.

First, click the rotation tool, then click the hotspot/video you want to rotate.

First, click the Static alignment tool, then click the hotspot/video you want align to a screen position.

First, click the opacity tool, then click the hotspot/video you want to apply opacity to.

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