Thursday, February 16, 2012
Who knew windows could be so yukky !!!
Who knew windows could be so yukky !!!, its a royal pain to develop for. Anyhow a couple more months of work and then back to kmotion 3, getting some ideas from a new generation of DVR PC interfaces I am seeing at work, kmotion 2 is looking real dated now, kmotion 3 will look a lot different.
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Eagerly waiting for Dave, I'm open to help with design ideas and testing different hardware dvr card. Regards, Kristiyan Georgiev.
ReplyDeleteWell I am a way off yet but more recient units have just video on their display, OK some aspect ratio issues, sometimes images are stretched sideways but 99% of the time you do not need the controlls, you just want to look, I am planning a pop out menu on the RHS that shrinks to say 2px when not in use,
ReplyDeleteAnd while on the subject of that menu, camera names in a list rather than camera numbers, a mode button to flick between modes instead of images of what each mode looks like.
This will also negate the need for a color theme, 99% of the time it is invisible so 1 x modern dark theme for the menus / config would work.
This also frees up for a larger config and archive area, something that kmotion3 needs.
The other area is archive, I am going to re-visit it, possibly allowing 4 x cams to be viewed at once all synced together, also possibly a thumbnail view of all motion trips for any given camera.
Anyhow just ideas floating around, any ideas or suggestions, now is a good time before I start to code.
Cheers
Dave
Hi Dave, send a link to the idea of interface and arrangement of menu and menu called by right mouse button. Can you give more details specifically what is going to turn such features in version 3. Regards, Kristiyan.
ReplyDeleteScreenshot One (open controller)http://brave-design.org/kmotion3_ui/kmotion3_UI_v2.0.png
Screenshot Two (closed controller) http://brave-design.org/kmotion3_ui/kmotion3_UI_v2.0._closing_controls.png
Hi Anonymous, wow, some very nice graphics and pretty near what I was thinking. I will be scrapping camera number buttons, instead there will be a list of actual camera names, the multi view camera select, unsure weather to have images of the layouts or just a cycle layout button and found a really nice PTZ feature today, would like to implement it, if a camera has PTZ superimposed, semi - transparent arrows <^> ... on the camera image, just click the screen borders to move the image, very nice and intuitive plus looks sleeker than having a PTZ control.
ReplyDeleteLove the theme and the kmotion3 logo, soooo much better than my attempts so far LOL.
Hi Dave, I'm glad that you liked my work, I have some ideas about the project, how we can work together and what you need and in what format and where can I send - in your email?
ReplyDeleteYes email me direct, no problem, the only issue is that I am deep in code for a project at work and am going to be working on it for a while, maybe 2 - 3 months more, its a bigger project than I originally thought so I wont be able to continue coding for kmotion 3 until that completes. I do really like you work, I have also been looking at using jquery in the next version, looks like I can do some nice fades and a few effects.
ReplyDeletekmotion.eu is down?
ReplyDeletejust fyi :)
page is back up :)
ReplyDeleteany action on here?
Jep, light is still on, still working on my 'works' project ... if only I could do this stuff full time :)
ReplyDeleteCan we please get an update?
ReplyDeleteUpdates?
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