What have you done with AMS5?

[JimS]

AMS5 allows all kinds of terrific new things. Page transitions, changing the size and location of objects, and more, are now available. Who out there has created sample projects that exploit some of these new found abilities? I’d like to hear about, or better yet, see what cool new things people are building. Does anyone want to share and show off a little? The Beta probably hasn’t been out long enough for too many people to build huge finished projects, but their must be some interesting experiments that demonstrate practical, and not so practical uses of some of these new features. Brett and all the fine coders at IR have delivered several of the things we asked for, so who wants to step up and show them that all their hard work is getting used? Who has thought of novel and creative exploitations?

[Corey]

Great Exploitations is my favorite Dickens...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)

[TJ_Tigger]

Originally posted by Corey
Great Exploitations is my favorite Dickens...

That was bad . . . Ba dump clankkkkk

Here is one that I did. Just for viewing pictures as a slide show.

picture_viewer (http://home.mchsi.com/~tj-tigger/pub/picture_viewer.zip)

Like I said, nothing fancy. I have a few others working with Zip files, videos, and web browsers. Just weird things to test the product and see some of the new capabilities.

Tigg

[RobertB]

nice work TJ.

[eric_darling]

Tigg,

Nice job! I do run into continuous errors if I run a slideshow, then choose select a dir, then cancel out of the file requester dialog. Check it out.

[TJ_Tigger]

Originally posted by eric_darling
Tigg,

Nice job! I do run into continuous errors if I run a slideshow, then choose select a dir, then cancel out of the file requester dialog. Check it out.

I didn't but all the checks in that I should have to make sure that someone chose a directory before you can select the other buttons.

I will do some more when I get a chance. the other aspect is I set up the folder to be one on my machine. I will repost in a few minutes.

[TJ_Tigger]

Ok you can download from the link above and try it again. I have added some redundant code to make checks on different things.

Tigg

[Corey]

Yeah I know Tigg but with ticket prices low as they are I simply can't afford to be as funny as I used to be... Budget cuts clearly had to be made somewhere, and my sense of humor seemed like a harmless place to start. I've also discontinued my table manners and am currently working closely with Warren Buffet on retooling my boyish charm, at least until prices rebound.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)

[John-oh]

What Larks, eh Pip ?

[Corey]

:)

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)

[JimS]

Good job Tig! That’s exactly the type of thing I was hoping to see, thanks for sharing. Like I stated earlier, AMS5 hasn’t been out long enough to get much Gold code done. At least for me, it always takes much longer doing the debugging than the fun coding. I call it fun coding, getting the code framed in and mostly working, at least under certain, sometimes strict, situations. Then comes the un-fun, often long and grueling part, the debugging and testing to get it to work right under all conditions, making it Gold. My question wasn’t meant to create a forum to point out what is wrong with someone’s code. It was about getting an early sneak peak of the different types of projects and experiments that different people are in the process of building. None of us should expect finished projects yet.

Your sample project shows good use of the new ability to change picture elements dynamically. The graphics program (still in development) that I’m working on in AMS4, requires my picture elements to be displayed in a web browser object. It has to keep dynamically writing and displaying a new web page in order to display changes to the picture. I’m pumped about the new dynamic qualities of picture objects. That could make my project much better in terms of speed, usability, and looks.

Your moving buttons are slick too. Eat your heart out Flash. I think that the ability to dynamically change an object’s size and position has got to be just about the single greatest advancement in AMS5 over AMS4. I expect to see lots of projects use this ability, other than animated GIF’s, I’d bet that this was the most requested new feature. It was on my want list for sure. I wish I had better math skills, so that I could write the tight algorithms used for fancy paths (object movements). I can probably figure out the math to move something horizontally or vertically, maybe with enough caffeine and head banging, I could create a diagonal path, but to create any more complex motions, I’m going to have to result to asking lots of questions, and ultimately copying someone else’s work.

Your project gave me some cool ideas. Thanks for sharing. I was hoping to see a few more examples, so far you are the only one that has been bold enough to brave the critiques and share. You’re the Man. Keep on keeping on.

[TJ_Tigger]

I have updated the Picture Viewer to include the option of placing the currently viewed picture as your wallpaper. In so doing, you will have the option of setting the Format of the wallpaper (i.e., tiled, stretched or centered). The code for the SetWallpaper action is setup as a Function in the Global actions list. If there are questions or comments please let me know.

As part of this project, I have included a program that Worm wrote that will convert the .jpg files to .bmp. The size of the download is now larger due to the additional functions.

You can get the file here:

Picture Viewer Plus (http://home.mchsi.com/~tj-tigger/pub/picture_viewer.zip)

Thanks JimS. I had fun putting this together. It is nothing fancy but just a quick project that would allow me to try some of the new functions. There are still a lot of actions I still need to test, but by doing this I hope I have helped in some way.

Tigg

[sferguson]

Hey Tigg,

When unzipping the downloaded file, prompts keep popping up for password protected elements. Is that something on my end, is it built into your zip file, did I miss the password somewhere in the thread, or is it just simply top-secret? :p

[ghobii]

opened fine for me, no passwords needed.

[TJ_Tigger]

no it is not top secret nor is it password protected.

[sferguson]

Well, thanks for the replies.

It must just be something on my end. I've been having some real intriguing issues related to managing my AMS 5 projects that appear to stem from my projects folder living on a portable firewire drive, this just may be another one of those things.

[Crash_Davenport]

http://www.codadmin.com/nuke/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=68#dl

A little app that creates a server config file for the FPS game "Call of Duty"
It was a great way to get my feet wet in the new version of AMS 5.

Looking forward to all the new plugins.

Crash D.

When u click on the link and the window comes up hit "refresh"

[Corey]

Happy new year Crash, hope all's well and peaceful in your neck of the woods...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)

[Crash_Davenport]

Thx...same 2 u Corey and the IR Team.

Here is the source file for the above app. Most of the script is in the Global functions area.

Crash D.

[Lorne]

Very nicely done, Crash. That's a sweet looking little utility.

Makes me wish I'd had AutoPlay 5 back when I was making my Tribes scripts...it would be way easier to build a configuration utility in AutoPlay than it was to code the GUI in Tribes or Tribes 2.

[kpsmith]

Hey Tigg,

Are you using the JPG to BMP program for anything in your slideshow? Just wondering why it was there?

[TJ_Tigger]

I was using it to allow people to set the selected picture as a wallpaper. I used that to convert to bmp and then apply to the background of your desktop. I don't think the code was in there for the one I posted.

Tigg

[Intrigued]

Sharp interface! I like your use of the hot spot over say massive amounts of buttons.

I have Call of Duty (great game) myself; however, my Internet service provider disallows hosting (of any kind) servers. (frown) Otherwise I would try this out and surely donate some monies!

Now, maybe we should work on an anti-cheat for Medal of Honor? (grin).

Again, very nice application over all. From seeing the amount of lines of code, you must have put a bit of time into the coding end of this project.

Well done!

[Crash_Davenport]

Thanks Lorne and Intrigued,

I learned alot putting it together. The hotspot was the only way I could find to stop the mouse from moving the app.

Crash D.

[Corey]

Transparent image can work too, but there's no advantage...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)