Well, this has been quite a week. I have been working on a laptop since before Christmas, because I fried some components in my main machine (how stupid am I - kneeling on carpet, building up some lovely static while building a machine!). Some replacements arrived (nForce2 motherboardwith IGP, and Athlon 2200+ for the sake of economy), and I built the machine only to find that the HD was dead. Thankfully nothing was really on there, but I still had to order a new one and wait for that. Well, that came and I got up and running only to find my machine kept cutting out. Foolishly I forgot that the the CPU fan wasn't suitably rated so when it hit 70°C it shut down, which I suppose I should be thankful for! Now I have one rated at 2800+ so I'm going fine.
I'm now split between two machines however which is a bit of a pain, but I'm getting there.
I had a day of interuption as we had to go visit my new baby niece. She was premature so that was a bit stressful, but now she's OK so that's a relief.
So, as for work. I'm cracking on with the DX Objects, though we are still working through some bugs. Below is a status report with my understanding of what we are waiting on:
Bugs
- Clicking on an MS Forms List/Combo causes the control to move
- Dragging of IE windows (e.g. picture frames) causes erratic drawing (sometimes black box, sometimes shown)List/Combo causes the control to move
- Need to remove "Delete widget" as per Brads comments until a proper "Widget solution" is devised (Post 2.1)
- Object scripts need to "Auto-enable" when an object loads. e.g. Media player requires you to enable objects when loaded no matter how much you manually tweak the loading order in the package.ini
Objects
- Media Player
- Alberto to fix Auto-enable
- Ian to complete Combo/List (and ideally FileOpen) controls
- Martin to implement
- Photoclip object
- Cat chasing cursor
- Made an object using a fish: www.desktopx.net/temp/newobj/fishchase.dxpack
- Brad to decide if this is enough to demonstrate the concept or if we need graphics creating
- Eyes that follow cursor
- Found old xEyes objects and mailed it to Brad for inclusion
- Weather
- We MUST ensure that the DX2.1 release contains the new weather object, not the orginal buggy one from months ago
Premium Objects
- Fish tank theme
- Alberto to upload components
- Martin to build theme
- Kids Desktop
- Martin to develop to allow urls to be added when in edit mode
- May need Ian's controls as it makes sense to put the URLs in a combo box
- Google
- Brad sending Martin book to assist
- Martin to review Google search methods in the meantime
Other Objects
- Upon completing these objects I will look at the others I mentioned in my 21st Jan report.
- Also, I want to review in detail the Longhorn Sidebar design specs as I'm convinced DX can replicate most of this