New GUI and Controls

[taylorza]

On another note… One big thing that came to surface yesterday is that there is an Arduino users’ group in Nashville of which I was unaware. I had a long talk with the founder during lunch and he’s a little tired of running the show. So, he’s handing his membership over to me and we’re becoming one big NashMicro.net! Also, I met with a local vendor who has a great meeting space and has offered to let us use it. I still have to nail down the exact date but sometime in the next 6 weeks we’ll be kicking off NashMicro and hopefully converting over a bunch of arduino users.

That sounds great. Good luck with the new group!

[Jay_Jay]

@ Skewworks,
Good luck with the new endeavor and no one would be better suited for such events… i’m sure you are going to get them all dazzled with all the GUI Magic you can do and more…they are lucky to have you aboard for sure…

[Skewworks]

I’m very close to releasing Tinkr, so close in fact I just finished the doc.

@ Ian - How’s this for you…you can now debug IApplication apps inside the emulator

[ianlee74]

@Skewworks

@ Ian - How’s this for you…you can now debug IApplication apps inside the emulator

Oh, that would be a dream come true! Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!

[Skewworks]

@ianlee74

Oh, that would be a dream come true! Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!

You can pick up your free copy at the usual place. Once I have the product page up and ready (need to make the free demo version and a video first) I’ll get you set up with a proper license so you’ll get update notifications and an download updates with a code.

[ianlee74]

@Skewworks

You can pick up your free copy at the usual place. Once I have the product page up and ready (need to make the free demo version and a video first) I’ll get you set up with a proper license so you’ll get update notifications and an download updates with a code.

You rock. I’ve got something else to finish the next couple nights then I’ll be back to playing with Tinkr. Looking forward to trying out your new goodies.

[Skewworks]

Resurrecting the thread for my next experiment. I’m throwing out all the GUI I’m used to and layering so much multi-touch your mind would explode memorizing the movements if they didn’t just make so much sense.

First new control…lock control. Just like on Android you can draw a pattern to unlock. Unlike Android: tracks number of times over each circle (up to 3x) allowing for several orders of magnitude more combinations.

Next up the desktop looks a bit like Metro with a difference. Each tile starts off as 1x1 grid (72x72 pixels) and can be manually sized to 1x1, 2x1, 2x2 and 3x3…3x3 is HUGE. This allows you to quickly find the apps you use most. Items can be grouped, ungrouped, dragged between groups and resorted within their current group.

Menus…oh man, menus. 4 different ways to bring it up on the CP7; my favorite being a 3 finger tap. Menus slide out and can be scrolled just like the desktop icons (horizontally a la Win8 phone). Got an expandable menu item? Tap it and all the menus will collapse and then re-expand where needed for the sub-menus. You’ll have a back option you can click/tap.

And when you’re done on the screen or application? Put down 2 fingers and slide right to throw the screen off / exit the application.

It’ll probably take a few weeks to work up a rough demo of just these but here’s some very quick demo art for now.

[Architect]

Looks great!

[ianlee74]

Awesome! Can’t wait to get this on my Gadgetab. So, will you be starting an App Store???

@ Josh - check out the wrapping of the post numbers in the top right corner of these posts > 99

[Skewworks]

Finally started work on the first new control. The core is already 80% complete with more security, features and speed than Tinkr.

CombinationLock control has and insane number of combinations 4x4 grid with each item capable of being hit up to 3 times; here’s a look at it running in the emulator.