Christmas Week

22 December 2008

It's either the Monday blues or it's the holiday season that made me feel rather lazy when I reached the 'working space'. Still, I managed to kick-start my engine and started working on the feature which I am assigned to - to toggle the application on/off.

I needed to get some help from Ming Hong as his 'Drawing Board' application is similar to ours. However, I found out that Ming Hong wouldn't be back till tomorrow. I guess I'll try to figure it out how he manages to toggle his application and ask him tomorrow.

I fiddled with Lightdraw and Ming Hong's application, I realized that Lightdraw was actually using X11 and when the application launches it uses OSC. I tried to figure out how he manages to change Lightdraw's mode to OSC when his application launches. You Hock then told me that one method was to use the application to set Lightdraw's mode to X11 first before launching.

After lunch, I went to help Ryan on his feature for the rest of the day.


23 December 2008

I asked Ming Hong about how his toggling logic work and he told me that his application was built on Lightdraw, using its memory. Therefore, there wasn't any mode switching. After asking, I went on to work on toggling the overlay. In the process of doing, I've also taught the rest how to store a variable by using the Maths patch as Quartz Composer itself was running on a while loop, which makes it almost impossible to store a variable.

Not too long after, I managed to complete my toggling feature and Ming Hong came in and taught us a little about 3D graphics before going for lunch.

After lunch, I tested my feature on the big screen with X11, which was working fine. I tried testing it with OSC and found out that the OSC receiver patch wasn't working as well as the coordinates for the laser could not be read. After debugging with Ryan, we realized that we forgot to copy 1 patch. Before we finished our day, we tested our applications and are pleased to say that it was working fine.


24 December 2008

It's Christmas eve and we are here for half a day. I tried to integrate my application in Cocoa, but it could not be loaded. So I re-did the Cocoa application for the overlay which took up the rest of the half day. I guess I'll test the Cocoa application on Monday when we get back. At around 11.15am, we went to the pantry for a mini-celebration before leaving. It's going to be a long weekend!(Yay)


25 December 2008

Merry Christmas!


26 December 2008

We were given a day off by Kevin!(Woots)


Reflection for the week:

It has been a very short week for me. Luckily, I managed to finish the toggling feature(I will feel bad if I didn't). I had also learnt a little about 3D graphics, which is pretty interesting.