Category Archives: cs-wsu

Meeting with the WAM

Monday, we met with Tim and the conservator for the exhibit.  It was an unveiling of the iPad kiosk and the features as they stand.  Joe took lead in the discussion, helping to explain the features capabilities and explaining what we could do to fix any concerns.  Unfortunately, from our point of view, it appeared as some of the features we expected them to like, were not accepted with open arms.  Things like a comments feature, or an email feature were rejected, ultimately dropping the need for our database backend.

Originally the database was primarily to be used for content management, but because of time constraints we shifted to adding something more simple, such as high scores for the puzzle, or an email list for the coloring app.  However, it turns out that neither of these features are wanted, so scripting for these features is officially shut down.

I am shifting my efforts to testing the application instead to make sure the release as it is now is as bug free and efficient as possible.  I luckily have my own iPad (with only the free version of kiosk pro)  so I began another thorough application test with Dillon, Brandon and Li.  We found a few issues, but confirmed that Joe would be working to fix them.  We’ll continue to test on the next version.

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This past Monday, I decided to help another

This past Monday, I decided to help another group with some issues they were having. Being in the server group with no issues on the server, there was not much else for me to do at the time. I looked on with Sompop on the Slideshow application, and helped him get it to work properly. The idea of the coding was done well, but there were a few syntax errors. The slideshow whould not change pictures after changing once at first. After a few syntax changes, the slideshow would run through cleanly. The only problem remaining was that it would not restart the slideshow. This problem was solved by changing “pageinit” to “pageshow.” This started the slideshow whenever that picture was shown, rather than whenever it was initialized. After this, the slideshow was working properly, and it could be pushed back into the development branch.

 

After this, I used Mike’s iPad to go through what we had put together so far. I was looking for any possible bugs. Mike’s iPad only has the free version of KioskPro, so it was difficult to find errors. One thing that I noticed was the dialog box that pops up when completing the puzzle. The title of the dialog box says cstest.worcester.edu. We brought this to the attention of the puzzle team so they could try to get rid of that. Other than that, no bugs or issues were found.

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Switching to PHP

So time is ticking away as the semester is coming to an end.  Our database work with python was progressing slower than expected.  So we decided last week to switch to PHP, which is more widely accepted for web server scripting.  There are many useful guides online for setting up a test site.  I found the following tutorial very helpful for first time setup:

http://css-tricks.com/php-for-beginners-building-your-first-simple-cms/

This tutorial expects that you have PHP installed, and that you have a web server to test with.  Luckily we did have a test server, so I ran ‘yum install php’ on the server knowing that Dillon had already created a basic WAM database with 2 tables, one for the coloring app, and one for the puzzle app.

I created my own .php script files, and uploaded them to a git repository, where I then cloned it to a new branch on my server directory.  Tests successful!  With a few modifications we’d be able to try out some simple features like recording high scores for the puzzle, or storing file paths for saved images on the coloring app.

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1 more class to go

So today was our 2nd to last class meeting and it was the day that we had a working framework of everything everyone has worked on this semester. I thought things are starting to come to a good point all working together. For the puzzle application, I had to adjust the css settings for the buttons due to testing on an iPad web browser to Kiosk Pro was different. I made that change and everything seemed to go good. Tim will be sending a couple new images to change out and other than that I think the puzzle is good to go! Its awesome to see all of our hard work this semester coming to a closing point. 

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1 more class to go

So today was our 2nd to last class meeting and it was the day that we had a working framework of everything everyone has worked on this semester. I thought things are starting to come to a good point all working together. For the puzzle application, I had to adjust the css settings for the buttons due to testing on an iPad web browser to Kiosk Pro was different. I made that change and everything seemed to go good. Tim will be sending a couple new images to change out and other than that I think the puzzle is good to go! Its awesome to see all of our hard work this semester coming to a closing point. 

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Updating a plugin.

Hello,

 

This week my focus of attention shifted somewhat towards updating a jQuery plugin called farbtastic.js; the code is on github at: https://github.com/mattfarina/farbtastic 

My interest in doing so stems from the fact that this plugin provides a nice and powerful implementation of a color wheel that, with minor modifications I have been able to successfully use in the sketchNcolor version of the coloring app. The idea is that, I can hopefully incorporate this color wheel into the current version of the app in the development branch and/or the final version, and in that way provide a much wider range of of available colors for selection to the end user.

 

As can be noticed on github, the plugin has not been maintained and updated in quite a while and, as it is, it works well with versions of jQuery up to 1.8. As soon as  more recent versions of jQuery(1.9 and on) are called, the plugin breaks. This is due to the fact that the jQuery 1.9 line introduced major changes, and plugins that have not yet been updated require the use of an additional jQuery Migrate plugin. More about that can be found here: http://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/#overview

 

As of the moment, using the Migrate plugin is an option that works. But updating the plugin would be much better, and great learning experience for sure. The update is not yet complete but, if I succeed, I will provide details about it in future blog post.

 

Until next time,

 

Beto Luna.

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WSU App: Slideshow swipe function

Over the past few weeks I have been looking into getting the swipe function to work with our part of the app and ending up trying out a few different coding techniques, none of which seemed to work much to my dismay. However in the past week I was able to find a good “floor plan” of how to set it up in our environment, and we were able to take that floor plan and fit it into the slideshow and finally we saw some progress. It wasn’t much progress at first, but Sean was able to sit down and painstakingly tweak the code and finally got it working the way we need to; aside from the gallery swipe. Some real progress has been made, and now we just have one minor thing left to do, get that gallery swipe-able.

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Quick Post

I figured I would do a quick status update since I have done 2 other post this week detailing on the puzzle application status. Overall I think the puzzle application is working great and looks good! This morning I have pushed the latest version to the development branch and I am excited to see how it looks in KiosPro compared to just the web browser on the iPad.

Hopefully Tim and his boss tomorrow like the progress that our class has made this semester.

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Quick Post

I figured I would do a quick status update since I have done 2 other post this week detailing on the puzzle application status. Overall I think the puzzle application is working great and looks good! This morning I have pushed the latest version to the development branch and I am excited to see how it looks in KiosPro compared to just the web browser on the iPad.

Hopefully Tim and his boss tomorrow like the progress that our class has made this semester.

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Articles chapter update

Articles chapter update

After got the update the articles from Tim this week, the content increased up to 8 chapters. So in my update this week, I have put all the picture and text information into 8 different html files and used existed button “Previous” and “Next” connect between each chapters. But since I having trouble to use the server this week, The size of the image will need to be redone. This should be fixed easily, once I could test on the ipad next week.

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