I am developing a desktop application for Windows that will constantly show the map moving as a vehicle moves, getting the location from a GPS unit. I have written a quick little demo that accomplishes this, however it constantly flickers. I need to implement a solution that has a nice smooth movement. I have several things in mind that will hopefully resolve this.
First I think it would be better to create the map at around 2 to 3 times the size of the visible window and move the window over the map. When the window gets close to a side a new map is built in the background which replaces the current map. I'm still working on how to do that. (Hints welcome!! lol)
I think it would be a big step forward and the ultimate solution to turn on hardware acceleration for the application. Based on what I have read in the forums JOGL is the only practical way to add hardware acceleration to a Java desktop application. So here I am.
Has anyone toyed around with adding JOGL to GeoTools. I'm not talking about 3D at the moment, just making the display more efficient. It looks like it's going to be a big job implementing this change as it appears that it will affect almost all of the code from JMapPane on down. Any suggestions, code examples and hints will be greatly appreciated!!!
You may use the GLG2D project to render a Swing JComponent such as the JMapPane using hardware accelerated using JogAmp JOGL 2. This will allow you to use hardware acceleration with minimal changes to the GeoTools source.
http://brandonborkholder.github.io/glg2d/
JComponent renderPane = new JMapPane(...
JFrame frame = new JFrame("My GeoTools application");
frame.setContentPane(new GLG2DCanvas(renderPane));
...
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I'm trying to use to SketchUp API to navigate around 3D models (zoom, pan, rotate, etc). My ultimate aim is to integrate it with a Leap Motion app.
However, right now I think my first step would be to figure out how to control the basic navigation gestures via the Sketchup API. After a bit of research, I see that there are the 'Camera' and the 'Animation' interfaces, but I think they would be more suited to 'hardcoded' paths and motions within the script.
Therefore I was wondering - does anyone know how I can write a plugin that is able to accept inputs from another program (my eventual Leap Motion App in this case) and translate it into specific navigation commands using the Sketchup API (like pan, zoom, etc). Can this be done using the 'Camera' and the 'Animation' interfaces (in some sort of step increments), or are there other interfaces I should be looking at.
As usual, and examples would be most helpful.
Thanks!
View, Camera and the Animation class is what you are looking for. Maybe you don't even need the Animation class, you might just be ok with using the time in the UI class. Depends on the details of what you will be doing.
You can set the camera directly like so:
Sketchup.active_model.active_view.camera.set(ORIGIN, Z_AXIS, Y_AXIS)
or you can use View.camera= which also accept a transition time argument if you find that useful.
For bridging input you could always create a Ruby C Extension that takes care of the communication between the applications. There are some quirks in getting C Extensions work for SketchUp Ruby as oppose to regular Ruby though - depending on how you compile it.
I wrote a hello world example a couple of years ago: https://bitbucket.org/thomthom/sketchup-ruby-c-extension
Though note that I have since found a better solution for Windows, using the Development Kit from Ruby Installers: http://rubyinstaller.org/
This answer is related to my comment above regarding the view seemingly 'jumping' when I assign a new camera to the current view using camera=, but not if I use camera.set.
I figured out this was happening because the camera FOV for the original camera was different, and the new camera was defaulting to an FOV of 30. By explicitly creating the camera with the optional perspective and FOV arguments from the initial camera solves this problem:
new_camera = Sketchup::Camera.new new_eye, new_target, curr_camera.up, curr_camera.perspective?, curr_camera.fov
Hope people find this useful!
I'm fairly new to programming and I've been presented with fairly daunting assignment at work. I need to build a program from scratch in order to take advantage of the Kinect's motion tracking capabilities to interface with another application.
Some context:
Someone else I work with has built the test program- a console app using OpenGL. The test program consists of a cube inside of a skymap. The camera looks at the small cube, and can be rotated around the cube to view it from different perspectives
Someone else was able to use the sample codes in the developer toolkit to control the test program. The test program now works with motion tracking (swiping your hand to the side rotates the cube; moving your head side to side changes the camera angle so it looks like you are looking around a floating 3D object; walking forward or backward zooms the camera). It works as it is, but...
The problem is this: Now that we know it all works, it's time to simplify everything so that we can run the test program on a tablet. So the code needs to be stripped down to the bare bones. We need to remove everything from the SkeletalViewer code except for the elements that gather and process the data, so that it can be used in another program.
I've been asked to build a console app from scratch (rather than tearing apart the sample code-as this is extremely messy) that allows us to use the Kinect with our test program.
I've spent the last few weeks trying to figure out the code and I'm feeling overwhelmed! I don't know where to start.
Here's my question: what are the absolute bare essential building blocks in the Kinect program? I do not need it to draw ANYTHING. I just need a console app that, when running, gathers the motion tracking data and sends it to the other program.
I would greatly appreciate any guidance you can provide.
Thank you in advance!!!
-JD
You don't need to draw anything, but there's a need to create an event for caching the frames in order to work one them.
Here's pretty cool description of skeletal joints: MSDN - Kinect
Another thing I can give you is the main page of Kinect project. Here are the libraries, guides, code samples etc. You can download and install Kinect Toolkit, there are several programs inside (binaries + code samples) - everything you need to learn Kinect API: Kinect For Windows - Downloads and Kinect For Windows - Learn
When you run an Adobe product in a trial, a window appears each time asking if you have have a serial number yet or if you would like to continue with the trial. Next to that is a lovely 'number ticker', like the ones they used to have at airports (see image).
Does anyone know where I can get one of these, preferably gratis, to use as a component in a flex application?
As promised an version of the flip clock, ready to use on github free of charge. If anyone has request. By all means - ask.
https://github.com/StrangeMother/Flash-AS3-Flip-Clock-display
edit: Sorry aboutt he broken link. Some how the .git at the end of the URL buggered.
I made an app that uses such a feature. Download the air app and take a look. Its just a super simple poker game timer, but it has the feature you require.
if you like it, then I'll sift the code out.
http://pokerblind.strangemother.com/app/data/application/versions/0.1/air/PokerBlind.air
Its a heady mixture of OOP class code and front end. The numerals are a Numeric item in the library of which are managed by a timer class and number counting class. Extendable enough and the graphics should be easy enough to rip apart.
A while back I started working on a component like this. It's not super sexy yet. Check out the code on github:
https://github.com/jamesward/FlipClock
There are a few decent components available for close to free that I've found at activeden.net. They generally include source code so you can change them to meet your exact need. Here's a good example of what you can find there: http://activeden.net/item/flip-numbers/104628
Hope that helps.
A very good looking component can be found here:
http://www.flashcomponents.net/component/sense_flip_clock_3d.html
It does cost 8$, though. :)
I've been working on a Flex component and I'd like to write some automated tests for it. The trouble is, the UI testing tools I've looked at (FlexMonkey and Selenium Flex API) don't simulate "enough":
Most of the bugs which have come up so far relate to the way Flex deals with dragging and dropping, which these libraries can't simulate accurately enough. For example, I need to test a case where there is a "drop" event which occurs in the bottom half of a component – neither FlexMonkey nor Selenium Flex API can do that (they may simulate a mouse event, but they won't include coordinates).
So, is there any "good" way to automate that sort of testing?
Edit: After much research, it looks like the only piece of software that can do this is iMacros, which is Windows-only and the interface is... Lacking. So I'm going to be writing my own. Basically, it will put an HTTP interface on java.awt.Robot so code (in any language) can simulate mouse/keyboard events. If you're interested, PM me and I'll keep you updated.
Edit 2: I have published the first version of the framework I wrote, Blunderbuss, over at BitBucket: http://bitbucket.org/wolever/blunderbuss/ . You'll need Jython to run it (http://www.jython.org/), but after that the flex-client example should work.
Videos of Blunderbuss live over at Vimeo:
Automating Flex testing with Blunderbuss
Blunderbuss test suite running
At the moment this remains a proof-of-concept, as I haven't had the cycles to clean it up and make it more useable… But maybe enough people bothering me would give me that time :)
I've used Eggplant to test Flash and AIR apps without having to add any hooks into the code. It's a great tool but it's quite expensive. It simulates a real user by VNC-ing into a system and uses image recognition - among other things - to interact with the app.
I am definitely interested in your custom Java class, and (though I am not the best at Java (yet...)), I would be willing to help out if you're thinking of making this collaborative.
As to Flash MouseEvents. Unfortunately, there really isn't an accurate way to simulate the drag/drop experience in Flash. MouseEvents, when generated by the mouse, are handled in a very different way than regular events and while you could simulate actions by passing events into the handling functions, or by making the dispatcher fire a new DragEvent( DragEvent.DRAG_DROP..., it will not be the same as having the user interact with it. And for some functionality (like gaining access to the clipboard), nothing inside Flash will accomplish your goals.
To be honest, you're probably headed in the right direction -- using something which is not written in Flash to drive faked mouse events is probably your best bet.
I've never had to use it in Flex but i recently stumbled across some info on automation packages in the MS Surface SDK... after looking into it those classes automated user behavior which can be used for testing i.e. move a fake mouse to this point, perform this action. As you're using Flex mx.automation packages and classes. My guess (and hope) is that you'd be able to achieve what you want using these classes.
You could also try auto-hotkey - it is similarly a macro-editing program but it has proven to be very efficient and you can write scripts and set it up very easily.
I am a beginer on game development. I wont write simple game with DirectX 10 and need to load animation like man playing cards. I don't know how to strat. As I know I must create my own file format and convert from some other format to it, but I don't know how. So please help me and if it is possible give some code example.
The DirectX SDK features a sample application with source code called Skinning10 that implements character animation.
The NVIDIA Direct3D SDK shows off Skinning with Dual Quaternions.
Also, you may want to have a look at the CAL3D Character Animation Library.