Hello again. 🙂 Just figured I would drop a note, I’m making decent progress on the Harness scripting, the low-level functions are complete, I’m now concentrating on the HUD’s user interface.Â
After a lot of thought, I decided to go with HTML on a prim. It offers a lot of advantages, the majority of people should have the capability in their viewer by now, and I can’t really see doing it as nice, or as functional, any other way.Â
I will still have a dialog menu and possibly chat commands available for those who don’t have PrimTML (I’m coining a new phrase 😛 ) capability. But it probably won’t be as pretty as I would like. The project is just too ambitious for those old technologies.
For those who like the technical side, the HUD will be serving its own web pages to itself (recursion anyone?) and only using an external server for static images and JavaScript files. The interface itself will be primarily using jQueryUI, which I chose after seeing how really flexible it is, and also because it’s very easy to theme. (a little demo of what jQuery UI and the themes are like: http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/)
I’ll try to get some demo screenshots as things progress. I’m making a conscious effort to *not* go crazy and try to add everything I want to right now, because it would take forever if I did that. “Just the basics. Can always add it later.” I keep saying. But it’s really hard. I love packing in features. Never fear though, the time for release is drawing near.