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VCP: Trick 2 – Creating components at runtime

Hormon — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:28:26 +0000

Most users create templates in an old fashioned way. They take the scene, place required controls and components on template form and write some code. Although it's nothing wrong with that (I do it all the time) sometimes I'm really frustrated. Mostly because I have to do copy and paste for the tenth time for a similar scene but with some new functionality added. I'm really lazy, so at some point I started to think of a way to construct some kind of a mechanism to do this work for me.[ ... read more ]

Still alive

Hormon — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:52:30 +0000

It's been a while since I wrote a post but a lot of thing is going on for me right now. I'm participating in a major project at work and helping FPSlab team with two of their products. Hopefully soon I'll have some short break and update you with what's comming up this year.[ ... read more ]

VizToolkit Controls Library – What’s new?

Hormon — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:46:51 +0000

I've made some updates to my VizToolkit Controls Library. Mostly I focused on fixing bugs and implementing new features to existing controls that in my opinion were missing. Like before new version of VizToolkit dll is avaible for download along with documentation. Let's take a quick look on what has changed since last release. [ ... read more ]

VCP: Trick 1 – Allowing user to enable/disable button on template form

Hormon — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:35:08 +0000

This is the first article in the series about Viz Content Pilot Tips and Tricks. I decided to share with you some of the usefull tricks to be used in templates. Some of them you may find easy, some are more complicated or at least look that way. All of them I used in at my work to provide users with some functionalities which are not present in VCP and have to be programmed from scratch. [ ... read more ]

Viz Memory Logger

Hormon — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:38:37 +0000

Viz Memory Logger is a simple diagnostic application. It allows user to monitor and log into file any memory changes on any machine in your network running viz|engine. It was created using Viz Toolkit library for communicating with viz machine. Hope you'll find it usefull.[ ... read more ]

Viz3 Scripting: Zooming and Dragging

Hormon — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:15:30 +0000

One of my subscribers asked me if I can make an article about zooming containers using viz3 script. I realized that there is rather poor documentation about implementing that kind of things. So I decided to create this short tutorial about dragging and zooming containers to fill this gap.[ ... read more ]

Updated VizToolkit controls library

Hormon — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:15:02 +0000

Since I've been quite busy lately and haven't done much with my VizToolkit library, I decided to spend some time this weekend polishing it. I made few changes to existing controls and added two new ones, which, I hope, you'll find usefull. [ ... read more ]

Viz3 Scripting: Reusable button script

Hormon — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:00:46 +0000

Nice thing about viz3 scripting is that you can create some parts of code to be reusable. This means, when you construct them the proper way - it is easy to adopt them to new projects later on. In my experiance most often used is a button script. So in this short tutorial I'm going to show you how you can create simple button script that you can use at any time later on in interactive scenes. [ ... read more ]

Viz3 Scripting: Shared Memory Map – Part 2: Simple Communication Model

Hormon — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:54:59 +0000

In previous post I explained basic usage of Shared Memory Map in Viz|Artist 3.x. This time we'll take deeper look into it and I'll show you how to construct simple communication model to share data and raise events on among different scenes on different machines. [ ... read more ]

Viz3 Scripting: Shared Memory Map – Part 1: Basics

Hormon — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:31:28 +0000

Viz 3.x introduced quite a number of improvements – starting with internal scripting, through new interface features and scene construction possibilities. One of my favourites is Shared Memory feature, so I’m going to talk for a while about that. [ ... read more ]