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skyworxx
Joined: 04 Jan 2007
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 Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 1:52 pm Post subject: [NEW] WiiFronted Beta 0.6 |
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WiiFronted Beta
current version: v0.6b
i fixed the channel-manager bug, thx to carl
Why?
| Quote: | you would want to SIMULATE the wii interface on your computer, because it looks cool, it is a cool way to organize your favorite games and applications, and you can impress people lol. annoying user experience? not hardly. some people use their sensor bars, and just aim their wiimote at the screen, and click. you would use the wiimote to navigate, because some people like the ability to control their computer from long distances..(i.e. lay on your bed and control applications, instead of walking the distance of the room to go control the mouse at your computer, or actually staying near the computer to control it) and also, a wii interface is a neat way of organizing which applications you like the most, and launching them easily, all with a simple press of a button.
let's say you didn't have a wii interface. ok...so im controlling my mouse, with my wiimote. let's also say you're not near the computer. you want to run mario kart 64. you would have to squint your eyes, go into your nintendo 64 emulator directory (or double click the n64 emulator shortcut on your desktop)...and then open the rom, by double clicking again, and THEN switching the glovepie script...by stopping the mouse glovepie script, closing glovepie, then re-opening glovepie, and loading the proper script (unless you have mario kart 64 controls built in to your mouse script).
you could defeat the purpose of the wii interface if you had shortcuts to launch all your favorite games/apps on your desktop. but IMO, thats not very organized.
the wii interface simplifies these steps, into maybe 1 or 2 button presses. it's convenient, sexy, and awesome. |
Images:
Overview
About-Page
Channel Manager
Transparent Channels (e.g. Weather Channel)
Real Windowed-Mode:
Video:
(old - Version 0.3a)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjE1aGi-zgg
Features:
- fully customizable channels
- includes sounds and cursor
- launches all filetypes
- 27 channels
- channel-manager (create and edit channels with a few clicks)
- support for 800*600,1024*768 1280*960 and real windowed mode
- launches automatically glovepie-scripts
- seperate opacity-setting for every channel
- clock^^
Todo:
- built-in ir-mousemovement (glad that wiinremote is also written in dephi  )
- Launcher for WiiFronted OR standby-trayicon: you only have to press the "Home"-Button on the Wiimote to open WiiFronted.
Important
Does someone know a good hover-component for delphi that is freeware? i used a shareware component, so there is a nag-screen when you launch that programm 
Download v0.6b:
7.5mb
Link: http://www.zshare.net/download/wiifronted-beta-0-6b-rar.html
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NewIdentity
Joined: 25 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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Hah, this one puts the "i made it but i m to lazy to release it -then- i release it but i m to lazy to make it better for everyone" one to shame. Good job.
Oh, and GlovePIE can execute scripts through command line, so it shouldn't be too hard  |
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skyworxx
Joined: 04 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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yeah, i know, you can put the glovepie-scripts on the channels, but it would be nice to start the scripts with a channel, for example usefull when you start emulators. i found out that wiinremote has the best mousemovement, so i'm going to implement it into WiiFronted, but thats a hard piece of work.
maybe i write a configurator, which automatically writes the config file and creates the pictures for the channels
//edit
i'm gonna release the sourcecode as well, so everyone can improve it |
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skyworxx
Joined: 04 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| can someone please download it, open "18.jpg" and "18-hover.jpg" and add a nice and decent email-icon like the wii-one? thanks |
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bigjohn8411
Joined: 02 Jan 2007
Posts: 116
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Hah, this one puts the "i made it but i m to lazy to release it -then- i release it but i m to lazy to make it better for everyone" one to shame. Good job. |
wow, excuseeeee me  
but i am glad someone is taking the idea to new levels, and making everyone in the community happy. |
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Cha0s
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Joined: 17 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| NewIdentity wrote: | | Hah, this one puts the "i made it but i m to lazy to release it -then- i release it but i m to lazy to make it better for everyone" one to shame. |
The "i made it but i m to lazy to release it -then- i release it but i m to lazy to make it better for everyone" one's Wii OS looked nicer than this one. It's nice that's customizable, but it doesn't look as much like the Wii interface, to tell the truth.
As for your comment, be nice. Most people have lives outside of WiiLii, and expecting them to devote hours of time just to make you happy is ridiculous. If you want someone to do something, ask once, nicely. Do not throw a temper tantrum or insult that person if he/she doesn't do what you want.
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barcrest
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:36 am Post subject: |
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| I don't know what i am doing wrong but it doesn't work correctly for me. When i launch it i get an alert box saying file not found. I also get this if i try and exit and i have to use ALT+F4 to get out of it. I tried moving the folder to the root of C:\ incase you had hardcoded the paths but still nothing. It also deosn't play any sounds, so this might be the source of the errors. |
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