Presentation Screen

This is a few photos of the pseudo wall for tomorrow, hope all is going well with everyone else. Have spoken to Sandra and she is working on the poster.

Decisions

We decided at our last group meeting to concentrate on our original breakdown of workload, and leave people to have that area covered.

The jobs for this final week are:
Sandra is doing the poster (and we are sending her relevant information to include, over and above what she has).
David is coding and adding the final animations.
Kathryn is finishing the finer points of the animation.
Petra is building the framework to display our presentation.

Update

This is an update on the progress, or lack of over the past weeks. There are limitations with our chosen technology and we have been trying to overcome these problems. Our initial trials allowed us to activate our Director projector using left mouse clicks which were interpreted by our interactive animation (scripted into the program). The technologies appeared to be interacting with each other.

David told us that the hotkeys on the underpinning technology was not being activated by Flash. As I did not understand this comment, I have spent time trying different scripts in Director as I do not know Flash. Hotkeys were added to the original trials for interactivity, these worked with manual key presses but would not be interpretted by Director as a hot key, the same result as Flash that David tried!! (At least now I understood Davids comments)

So at the end of the day we have limited functionality between the two programs:
-run program (allows us to activate our program)
-left mouse clicks (per motion detection with in a zone)

Functionality that could be superimposed, but not actually be working between the programs:
- Hotkey functionality (keyboard imput or sensor pads)
- Sound output (from motion detection program)

Ideas that were discussed:
-using 2 monitors (this could be intergrated, but the idea was discarded)