Feedback idea
Posted Tuesday, 2 June, 2009 - 08:38 by objarniI have this idea that feedback is one of the psychologically most important aspects of software development.
So I thought, what will increase the feedback most when developing an OpenTK application..? Screenshots are traditionally a really good "carrot" for inspiration and progress. If there was a simple way to create a screenshot and put it up at the opentk blog, it would increase the feedback rate for me.
Continuing that thought line, I know that Progress.Start(path) opens up the file browser of the operating system.
Also, Progress.Start(url) opens the browser at the specified URL (or a new Tab if you're in Firefox). The URL to add a blog post at opentk.com is http://www.opentk.com/node/add/blog, at least if the browser caches the login to opentk, which it does here. And, the GLControl has a "screenshot" method called GetBitmap.
Could I mix all these ingredients into something productive..?
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Re: Feedback idea
OpenTK: the next step in blogging automation! :p
How do you plan to log into the site? (edit: cached credentials, this could work!) Maybe the WebBrowser control has something you can use?
Could this work as a form of semi-automated bug reporting..? ("The Open Toolkit has crashed. Send report? Yes / No / Details")
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Haha that's an idea with bug reporting.
The web browser control is a cool idea. Would it cache the credentials..?
Re: Feedback idea
Sweet idea!
It would certainly encourage me to blog properly (i.e. "at all") on the development of LinkSphere...
Re: Feedback idea
Haha that's an idea with bug reporting.
The web browser control is a cool idea. Would it cache the credentials..?
No idea, but there's a chance you can actually specify the necessary information and login through the control.
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If someone has some time over please try this out, I'm at work now
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Fiddler: how do you specify credentials? I mean are they post-variables in the HTML protocol? I'm no webdev either... :)
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An even more useful thing would be a script that records a video and uploads to YouTube. That would rock! :D
Re: Feedback idea
Heh yeah but that's step two :)
Step one is screenshots with comments!
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If by "records" you mean capturing a series of tif images, then it's relatively easy. If you mean actual video encoding it starts getting hairy.
Does anyone know if ffmpeg ships a commandline encoder/converter utility? In that case, it might be possible to feed the screen capture to this utility and upload the result automatically.
Edit: there actually is! Let's see what I can come up in 15'.
Edit 2: Duh, I totally forgot about mencoder!
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Anyone trying out the "light" version of this idea..? I mean the screenshot scenario? I'll have some time to try it out tonight if no one else rushes before me..