CommandFusion: iPhone control with customizable interface

[Svedenblad]

Works a charm. I had missed a number in the IP-adress. Now the fun starts.

[aslamma]

How does one send current time/day and weather information to iViewer? Confused as to the what needs to happen there.

[CommandFusion]

Send it on a serial join, and assign the same serial join to a text object on your GUI.
This is how to show any text data.

You can also trigger the standard status bar to show/hide/toggle via digital joins:
Toggle: d17922
Show: d17931
Hide: d17932

That way you can view the devices built in clock, battery level, signal level, etc.

[aslamma]

Is there any chance you could add touchpad capability for the HTPC users out there? I am really liking this iPad but it's a pain to keep popping in and out of the app to access another touchpad app. Perhaps that could be a separate pay option?
,L

[CommandFusion]

A 'tracker' object is on the roadmap that will do exactly what you want (and more), but it is not scheduled for development for a while yet.
Many other features in the works which are more important such as gestures.

[aslamma]

Sure thing, glad to see it is in the pipeline.

So help me out here. Trying to do an iPad layout and it is 1024 in height in portrait mode. Problem is my computer resolution is only 1080 and I can't seem to scroll within the guiDesigner pane so I can't get to the bottom of the layout. What can I do about this?

[CommandFusion]

New guiDesigner beta release coming out in the next day or two which allows you to resize the page window and scroll within.

For now, the only way around it is to get a higher resolution monitor, unfortunately.

[aslamma]

First cut with iPad. Jarrod, do you know if you can further reduce brightness? This thing is too bright, even at its lowest setting. Maybe Apple will fix it in 4.0 though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEbdEt4tFd0

[CommandFusion]

Nice work. That is the first time I have seen it running on a real iPad, and wow it loads fast!
Getting my hands on an iPad soon (being sent from USA on Monday).

There is nothing we can do to control brightness within the SDK, but even if so in iPhone OS 4.0 it would most likely only allow as low as the general brightness setting anyway.

[aslamma]

I am hoping enough people complain about the brightness that they may change it. Will see.

But yeah it has very impressive speed. Hstouch is still very slow by comparison. Frustrated that it loses wifi after going to sleep. Don't haves prob on my iPod cause it runs backgrounder with a jailbreak.

[aslamma]

How do taps and gestures work with other buttons? Will you need to use them in locations where there are no buttons? For example, I want a double tap anywhere in the screen to take me to another screen, but won't it trigger a button first if it tap that area. Same with gestures, would the need to started in areas with unused real estate?

I basically want quickly go to a black screen during normal viewing.

[CommandFusion]

The gesture system hasn't been finalized yet, but I believe you will be able to swipe anywhere on the page, no matter what objects are below it.
Then so long as you do a gesture above a certain speed, it will not trigger a press on any object below it.

Of course if you want a simple black screen with nothing other than say a back button, then there is no way you would trigger anything unwanted anyway.

[aslamma]

I am more concerned about getting to the black screen, getting out of it is easy.

Can you go to a black screen after a set amount of idle time?

[CommandFusion]

By 'black' do you mean powered off or just showing a black graphic? We cannot turn off the screen other than via the proximity sensor.

Currently we don't have idle timers, but we will add something like this in a coming version.

[aslamma]

For now, I will take a black screen. Although it's not the best for battery, it would at least not distract the eye during tv viewing. My goal is to use it as the main remote control. Seems promising in my first tests. That was my main issue.