{"id":209,"date":"2009-04-04T23:24:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T07:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2009-04-30T18:14:01","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T02:14:01","slug":"checked-in-new-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/04\/checked-in-new-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"Checked in new codes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just checked in new codes of PPCam to <a href=\"http:\/\/ppcam.svn.sourceforge.net\/viewvc\/ppcam\/trunk\/client\/\">SVN on sourceforge.net<\/a>, I guess I won&#8217;t spend too much time on visual effect in the future, so what we have now is most likely what we have all the time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>no Windows gadget, i.e. no toolbox, no menu, no border, no title bar<\/li>\n<li>semi-transparent effect, means you can still read content on windows below PPCam<\/li>\n<li>Moving by any point, means you can click on any position of the window and drag &amp; drop the window to the new place, this is a must as it does not have title bar for this<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that this is data driven \ud83d\ude09 , I learnt the idea from previous music player project &#8211; you can just provide a bmp file, and the application will take top-left point as &#8220;transparent sample&#8221;, then any points in the bmp that has the same color as top-left point will be treated as transparent. This feature makes really easier to change the look and feel.<\/p>\n<p>Other than these visible changes, that are some codes related changes, may or may not be that interesting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Added win32api.ads to include those Win32 APIs that the project needs to use, but are missing in win32ada binding<\/li>\n<li>PPCam now becomes a dummy top level package, it used to have those data conversion functions but obviously I can use those from win32ada<\/li>\n<li>Added a bmp to the source, this is the bmp I used to debug\/demo<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m trying to turn some functions to procedures whenever I don&#8217;t need a return code, I think this is another C habit needs to be changed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There will be couple of parts of features to be done in the coming days<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Include vfw features, I haven&#8217;t got any idea so far<\/li>\n<li>Pop-up menus for the interface to let user enter user name\/password\/server name, etc<\/li>\n<li>Network, UDP only, then later on I need to have P2P based on it<\/li>\n<li>Server, another GNAT Ada program that will be running on a server to handle authentication, port discovery, etc<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I believe this project will be running pretty long thinking of how much I have to learn, if I can make a workable version by June I will be super happy.<\/p>\n<p>I will try to check in at least every week so to make the project active, I will also post documents (svn first, web site later) so to make it possible for others to understand the whole project well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just checked in new codes of PPCam to SVN on sourceforge.net, I guess I won&#8217;t spend too much time on visual effect in the future, so what we have now is most likely what we have all the time: no Windows gadget, i.e. no toolbox, no menu, no border, no title bar semi-transparent effect, <a href='https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/04\/checked-in-new-codes\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,5,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}