The development server is back online.  Though the newest versions of slide show and coloring program are not up on it.  So I have mostly done testing on what people have in their User Directories.  Unfortunately there has been less progress these last two weeks then normal.  At least as far as testable features go.

The articles page was found to have some troubles, with the highlighted text and bottom of the page.  The team is working on these and confident the problems can be fixed.

There was some problems in the coloring app when it received fast inputs but that has been corrected now.

With the slide show there is a problem that when an image is expanded changing the image doesn’t get rid of the expanded image and just puts the new image behind it.  The team is still working on a fix for this.

Otherwise the program is responding well to testing.

I will be working on my Instruction Slide show next week.  My plan to test the local content and update has been delayed.  I have decided to make it a good test I really need to test it with the full program.  For this I need to wait till we have a fully updated copy all put together.  I am hopping that we will have this next week.  Doing the test this way will make sure that there is no trouble with the amount of data or updating a complicated program.

From the blog murrayandrewt » cs-wsu by murrayandrewt and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

I just posted a new updated version to git and the cs web server. It seems their might be a few issues on the server again that are not replicated if it is being run on my own machine. I updated the pictures to the ones Tim had given the article team a few weeks ago and left a template version inside the code for any future additions.

Small changes to the look of the slideshow app have been made as well. James had worked on it as well, but those additions are not added to this version. The only changes added are brighter left and right arrows and the drop down menu. Small changes to pictures sizes have been made too.

The addition of swipe functionality is still being looked into. I have been messing with it a bit, but every change I make has added a different fault. Will continue to look into this. Same with minimizing the image if an arrow is clicked. This has not been fixed and I have not yet looked into it.

I’d like to get an updated working developmental branch as it seems to still be broken. I’ll look at that this weekend. I might just push directly to it, although I know we agreed upon not doing that. I think it might be a better idea than waiting for all the merges to take place. Something should be up there, working, at all times in my opinion.

I’ve been very busy lately with other school work, so it has been a while since a post. Looking forward to next Monday! These Mondays off are killing us!

From the blog Sean » cs-wsu by shorton1 and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

I just posted a new updated version to git and the cs web server. It seems their might be a few issues on the server again that are not replicated if it is being run on my own machine. I updated the pictures to the ones Tim had given the article team a few weeks ago and left a template version inside the code for any future additions.

Small changes to the look of the slideshow app have been made as well. James had worked on it as well, but those additions are not added to this version. The only changes added are brighter left and right arrows and the drop down menu. Small changes to pictures sizes have been made too.

The addition of swipe functionality is still being looked into. I have been messing with it a bit, but every change I make has added a different fault. Will continue to look into this. Same with minimizing the image if an arrow is clicked. This has not been fixed and I have not yet looked into it.

I’d like to get an updated working developmental branch as it seems to still be broken. I’ll look at that this weekend. I might just push directly to it, although I know we agreed upon not doing that. I think it might be a better idea than waiting for all the merges to take place. Something should be up there, working, at all times in my opinion.

I’ve been very busy lately with other school work, so it has been a while since a post. Looking forward to next Monday! These Mondays off are killing us!

From the blog Sean » cs-wsu by shorton1 and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

It has not been a very productive week developing the coloring page.  I have been waiting on response from the Worcester Art Museum WAM regarding the user interface UI.  My partner and I have two separate concepts for the UI, so we have provided WAM with both so they can decide what they like from each.  Then the plan is to combine the two versions.  Currently there are issues with slow color selection for both versions on the iPad.  I was able to fix the problem in my version but regarding tool selection.  The fix is as simple as calling the change tool method with jQuery instead of on-click in the HTML file.  I will fix the colors If we will be using my version.  There is also one other issue in my version.  When you click undo you have to click twice before the event will fire on the iPad.  This only is happening in mobile safari to my knowledge.  I believe a possible fix would be to create the undo clear and redo button in their own canvas, which should also fix a placement onresize issue I was having on my laptop.

Till next time.

Jason Hintlian

From the blog jasonhintlian » cs-wsu by jasonhintlian and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

After our class this past week we discussed were we all lie with the project. We also went over the rest of the timeline for the semester. We only really have 3 classes left  until the semester is over. It is starting to approach real fast and I think it has all of the groups thinking what will the final product look like. I know for the puzzling team we have a working application with a home page that directs you to the puzzle and allows you to restart and go back to the main page. We spoke with Tim on Monday and he has a main screen layout that he is going to give us hopefully soon so we can implement it into our code and then start to get the final touches on it that he wants. The one difficult thing we have been having is getting multiple images to work with this open source code. Our last resort if we cannot get this working is we can have 3 index.html files which would call for that specific image. Good thing the index.html file is rather small so if we need to go to this it should not be a big issue. We hopefully should have some images that Tim wants for our next meeting in class. Once all of theses changes are set we will give Joe the ok to start invoking the color scheme to the puzzle part to the application. I think it is getting to the exciting point seeing it all come to an end and see our final product of all of our hard work put in this semester. 

This week has been slow for improvements besides getting the multple images to work. The layout and home page I have left the way they are now because if Tim is going to be giving a template for us to use that he designed then it sounds best to wait until we have that in our hands before we start making anymore layout UI changes. 

We do not have class this week due to the holiday so hopefully our next meeting we can get everything we need from Tim to get the final touches going on this.

From the blog rwilliams5262 » cs-wsu by rwilliams5262 rwilliams5 and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

After our class this past week we discussed were we all lie with the project. We also went over the rest of the timeline for the semester. We only really have 3 classes left  until the semester is over. It is starting to approach real fast and I think it has all of the groups thinking what will the final product look like. I know for the puzzling team we have a working application with a home page that directs you to the puzzle and allows you to restart and go back to the main page. We spoke with Tim on Monday and he has a main screen layout that he is going to give us hopefully soon so we can implement it into our code and then start to get the final touches on it that he wants. The one difficult thing we have been having is getting multiple images to work with this open source code. Our last resort if we cannot get this working is we can have 3 index.html files which would call for that specific image. Good thing the index.html file is rather small so if we need to go to this it should not be a big issue. We hopefully should have some images that Tim wants for our next meeting in class. Once all of theses changes are set we will give Joe the ok to start invoking the color scheme to the puzzle part to the application. I think it is getting to the exciting point seeing it all come to an end and see our final product of all of our hard work put in this semester. 

This week has been slow for improvements besides getting the multple images to work. The layout and home page I have left the way they are now because if Tim is going to be giving a template for us to use that he designed then it sounds best to wait until we have that in our hands before we start making anymore layout UI changes. 

We do not have class this week due to the holiday so hopefully our next meeting we can get everything we need from Tim to get the final touches going on this.

From the blog rwilliams5262 » cs-wsu by rwilliams5262 rwilliams5 and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

We are almost there for the light box function. After Monday’s meeting, the light box function can works with in the articles in general. And notice the close button has been move to the right-up side of the screen, and I kept the close function working when the user click on anywhere in and outside of the light box. The only thing need to be fixed for the lighte box is the sized of the image. And that could be fixed easily by photoshop or any image software.

From the blog zli1 » cs-wsu by zhengjunli and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

This past week didn’t entail much especially since the project seems to be winding down. At this point it is just code review / bug fixes and optimization for the slideshow. We seem to be pretty much done with the slideshow as of now, since James caught the error in why our results didn’t replicate correctly on the server (case sensitive issue). We just need to put in the correct pictures when they come and get the swipe function working and we should be good! That’s my standpoint on this, lets see if the others agree! If not, then updates will be forthcoming.

From the blog CS:401 » CS-WSU by dcarlin2013 and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

So I spent this weekend buried in my laptop, redesigning my coloring app interface.  Originally, I had a few tool buttons and selection menus on the right hand side of the screen. The canvas for drawing was positioned in the the center of the page and the coloring page selection area was on the far right.   The new design compacts everything on the right hand side of the screen.  That means no more menus that open up over the drawing screen.  In addition to a new interface, I just couldn’t resist adding some new functionality.  I started with undo and redo buttons, then I added clear and finally a spray paint tool which helped to even out the look of the new UI.

Rearranging the UI took a bit of time but it was relatively simple. First, I added color buttons for the featured colors the Worcester Art Museum wants displayed.  Then I resized the size menu and shoved it over to the right.  After that I recoded the coloring page scroll window to be horizontal, shrunk it to size, and sent it to the right.  I rearranged all the buttons into the right side UI including new animated undo, redo, and clear buttons and that was that.  

Undo and Redo were a piece of cake and I have to give full credit to http://www.codicode.com/art/undo_and_redo_to_the_html5_canvas.aspx author Chtiwi Malek.  His methods for handling undo and redo for a drawing app specifically, worked so perfectly, I found it unnecessary to make any modifications other than those necessary to add it to my program.  His solution was to take a snapshot of the screen after each mouse event and then store those images in an array.  Then you can traverse the images in the array using undo and redo.  I am having am issue on the iPad where you have to click the undo and redo buttons twice before they fire.  This does not happen on the computer however and thus far I can find no reason for the problem.  Clear will not only clear the page currently but it will also refresh the undo redo array so you cannot undo clear.  I am debating whether or not it should refresh the array though because hitting clear on accident would not be so good.  After that I decided to tackle spray paint.

Spray paint was actually very easy to implement. You set up two arrays one with width multiples <= 1 and the other with alpha values <= 1. The larger widths have the lighter alpha values and the small widths have the darker values.  It creates the effect of a well faded tip.  However, I found for larger tips you must increase the number of widths you are using or else the different alpha values in the tip will be distinguishable to the eye.  The effect can create a sort of cool pattern but for a spray tool it was undesirable.

I almost forgot, I changed the color wheel to a smaller wheel with no shaded regions.  the color wheel menu is activated by the color palette button.  When activated it takes the place of the original paint colors.  I created a slider bar similar to a volume bar for selecting the shade of the color.  The slider works as far as animation goes but there is no logic for shading or lightening the current color yet.  Work for this week I suppose.

Anyway that just about wraps it up for this week.

Till next time.

Jason

From the blog jasonhintlian » cs-wsu by jasonhintlian and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

In the class time this week, Tim told us more about how he wanted the screensaver to look like and how it works. Previously, we are asked to create a screensaver with pictures or video; and the screensaver will appear after a fixed amount of idle time. Then, touching the iPad’s screen will lead the user to the home page.

Now, before popping to the home page right after the touch , we were told to add a kind of slideshow/presentation with some pictures and short introducing texts, which will appears after the first touch. The second touch will pop up the home page.

So now, the work of screensaver has 3 parts: 

– making a screen saver appearing after a fixed idle time.

– making a kind of presentation with some pictures and introducing texts appearing right after the touch.

– linking the two parts above together.

The first part seems to be done so far. For this week, we are going to work on the second part.

From the blog daunguyen10&#039;s Blog » CS-WSU by daunguyen10 and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.