Week 13

12 Jan

Leonard showed us how we could invert the colours to negative on Mac as should as we reached the office in the morning. When we were just about to go out for breakfast, we were approached by Daryl from Corporate Comms to write an article about our experiences in IHPC for the IHPC newsletter.

We aimed to complete the whiteboard application for single-user this week. 

13 Jan

We went on to test the whiteboard application when we reached the lab and we found problems with the create new pen, drag and draw. 

As shown above, the laser and the image of the marker seems to accurate when its in the middle however as the laser moves up or down, the position of marker went off. Luckily, with the help of Ming Hong, we managed to solve the problem before updating Kevin.

Kevin gave some comments after that, he suggested to change the UI of the whiteboard as it seems to take up too much space. We also discussed on how we should do the multi-user function. After that, I went for the video-shoot for Cooliris and then went on touching up the application with Ryan as Leonard and Wilson went on designing the new UI.

14 Jan

These are the new markers that were designed by Leonard and Wilson. It looks simple and cool. While they were busy working on the images, I started working on the multi-user function for the whiteboard application. As soon as they have finished the images, they showed the images to Kevin and Ming Hong. Ming Hong suggested that they should smoothen the edges of the images and I suggested that we should just use a large-size image for each brush instead of different images of the sizes as it would make the application even more complicated.

15 Jan

As usual, I continued working on the multi-user function with Leonard while Wilson and Ryan worked on the sliding in of palate when toggle on. Then they started changing the images for the palate and brushes and started testing on the sliding palate and they seems to have problems with it. Luckily, they were able to solve it with the help from Kevin and Ming Hong.

Once they are done with it, Wilson and I took note of the new coordinates of the palate and did some testing for the rest of the day.

16 Jan

Ryan went for his NS Medical Checkup today so he was not around. I went on working on the multi-user function which is really complicated whereas Leonard and Wilson went on writing the article for the IHPC newsletter. Wilson and I went on adding some new logic to the whiteboard application such as disabling toggling when dragging or drawing, disable changing of colors and sizes when drawing.

Initially, we wanted to change the "dragging and draw" function but Ryan isn't here so we gave up, afraid that we might mess up the codings. Luckily he was back in the afternoon to help out.

Reflection:

This week, the main focus was to get multi-user function to work and also to complete the whiteboard for single user. Other than that, we have to write an article for IHPC's newsletter which I would consider this week as a hectic one. Luckily, we were able to split the task well making all the tasks given to be completed. However, multi-user still does not seem to be working well. I have also learnt that the design of the UI is also important as it would make the user want to try playing the application one have done.