GE2 GUI progress 1.2

Hi.

Another little update. Here are few things that I have recently added :

1. CheckBox - Simple control with .checked property just set it to true or false.
2. RoundBox - works completelly automatically. If one round box is checked then all the other check boxes within the same contianer would be unchecked.
3. Enable/Disable states. Another proprety for every control. Works by setting .enabled to true or false.

Here is a video that demonstrates all of this in action:

GE2 GUI work in progress 1.1

Hi.

Just wanted to show a little progress with the new GUI system. Check this video:



It shows basic GUI system in action. One of the key features displayed in this video are:

1. Working event system. Mouse Click,Hover,Move
2. Working controls : button , drag_box, resize_box
3. Text Alignment - shows that any text in any control can be aligned either to one edge or stretched between different edges.
4. Anchor and dock in action. Inspired by .NET and quite similar to it.
5. Ability to manually override close_button on a window. Look how one window doesn't has close button.
6. Minimum and maximum sizes for the control. When the control is resized these values are applied.

A few things still needs a little work:

1. Scissor - The problem is that some controls break away from their parent container edges.
2. Add Enabled/Disabled states.
2. Add other controls...

Galatic Engine 2 GUI development continues

I haven't updated the engine version for some time now. This is because I have been really busy with new GUI development. I don't want to go into details about the new features because some of them are still in testing. Anyway here is one little widget I made it with Flex Builder. It shows how long I have been developing new GUI.

The reflection skin has been taken from here



I still can't believe it has taken it so long !

Wild Boar TV Online

Here is an awesome new service that has taken Estonian homes and offices by storm:

WildBoar TV!



It was created by some enthusiast from nature calender. It is a live stream from a place in the woods used for feeding wild boars. Check this page for archives Here

Or you can see what is going on there live here.


Picture © looduskalender.ee 2006

Dolar drops below 10 EEK

It is the first time ever that dollar has dropped as low as 10 EEK.

EEK is Estonia's currency.

Here is a little graph to show the tendency of changes:




I have been following the changes within US economy for sometime and it keeps getting more and more worser. The disturbing factor is that US Federal bank keeps making the same steps and they doesn't seem to be working.
Another problem is that Oil prices are rising and well it impacts everyone in the world. I can only hope it would end soon.

Stage6 shutdown

Unfortunatelly the popular video service at stage6.divx.com was shutdown. Here is the official explanation from the site team:

Stage6.com has been shut down. Thank you for supporting the service.

We created Stage6 with the mission of empowering content creators and viewers to discover a new kind of video experience. Ultimately, the continued operation of Stage6 was a very expensive enterprise that required an enormous amount of attention and resources that we at DivX are not in a position to continue to provide. There are a lot of other details involved, but at the end of the day it's really as simple as that.

The DivX experience will continue, of course. Every day new DivX Certified devices arrive on the market making it easy to move video beyond the PC. Products powered by DivX Connected, our new initiative that lets users stream video, photos, music and Internet services from the PC to the TV, are hitting retail outlets. We remain committed to empowering content creators to deliver high quality video to a wide audience, and we'll continue to offer services that will make it easy to find videos online in the DivX format.

It's been a wild ride, and none of it would have been possible without the support of our users. Thank you for making Stage6 everything that it was.

There is another service that has the same and even more features - veoh.com

One of  the key features is the Pro version. It allows synchronization of videos with different video services. For example you upload a video and veoh does all the uploading for you for other services like google video or youtube.

There is also a video browser program that can be downloaded for Mac or windows. It searches and plays back all the videos that can be found on google video or youtube.

Here is blazetris with veoh:



Online Videos by Veoh.com