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[juwi_uk]

Hi

I\'ve posted 1.0.15.0 to:

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Fixes a couple of bug fixes which I found recently and were annoying:

Bug Fixes

• Rework Event Log fetch and display to solve timing issues (hopefully!).
  
• Fix bug in Control Menu tree where EXECUTE button would be greyed on some items.  This was introduced accidentally when feedback values were introduced in 1.0.10.0.

New Features

• None

 

Regards

Julian

[juwi_uk]

Hi

I had a further session today on stability and debugging SCS inputs and outputs now that I have an SCS to test against. 

I tested out the new Zwave UCM too and via a combination of \"CounterFlags\" and \"ClickResponses\" in the client it\'s really cool, especially now I have the polling working so that the floorplan icons change with the Zwave polling and I can see manual switch pushes reflected on the floorplan as well (goodbye X10!!).

I\'ve posted 1.0.16.0 to:

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Changes are:

Bug Fixes

• Last selected Comfort ID did not display correctly for Comfort Type SENSOR on the Comfort Properties form.
  
• Rework the Floorplan update logic as some objects were not updated correctly all of the time.  Improved the internal storage of objects in the application as a result which should improve reliability as well.

New Features

• Initial support for SCS & RIO (finished debugging initial support).

Julian

[juwi_uk]

Hi

Just to let anyone that\'s interested know, I\'m working on 1.0.17.0 version that will  support multiple windows, have HELP (writing help is really boring!!)  and fix a few more bugs (anyone noticed that bring to front doesnt work?).    The runtime side of multi windows is already working, i just need to build a new \"Window Manager\" that will allow you to add/rearrange/delete windows.

All windows are updated in realtime (you dont have to have them in focus).  I\'ll true to make the tabs flash when any activity happens on teh forms too.  I was thinking of auto-switching logic too but will need to think about this and achieving a granularity that wont give people sea sickness by changing too quickly!

Shouldn\'t take too long before it\'s available.

Looks like this with windows down the Right-hand side of the Floorplan.


Julian
 

 

[Ingo]

I like this a lot. How about using the \"Future Tab\" for CBus ???

Small things to keep in mind are things like making your light bulb picture, or any selectable picture, with a transparent background?. I noticed if I switch my Cbus light ON, it updates the Comfort Counter and voila, it displays the \"LightON\" picture with a white rectangle around it... 1.0.16.1 enhancement perhaps??

I suppose once you get to the release version it will also be a bit faster.

Keep up the good work.

Ingo

[juwi_uk]

Hi Ingo

 

I like this a lot. How about using the \"Future Tab\" for CBus ???

Small things to keep in mind are things like making your light bulb picture, or any selectable picture, with a transparent background?. I noticed if I switch my CBus light ON, it updates the Comfort Counter and voila, it displays the \"LightON\" picture with a white rectangle around it... 1.0.16.1 enhancement perhaps??

I suppose once you get to the release version it will also be a bit faster.

 

 

 

Making the \"Future Tab\" for CBUS is a possibility but someone would need to tell me what you want on the Tab.  The way I do the X10 tab is to parse all responses for X10 commands and filter down the list according.  Potentially you can do the same for CBUS ;  could you check your cclx file in an editor and tell me if it says CBUS somewhere between <ActionSource> and </ActionSource> in the <Responses> section?  If so I could filter.  Remember you should be able to do CBUS via the Floorplan \"Click Responses\" too and I personally do this with my ZWAVE lights.  Unfortunately as I don’t have a CBUS UCM fitted, I don’t see the commands in the Response Wizard.

 

Transparent backgrounds are a feature of the GIF\'s you use so they will work on the floorplan in some situations.  But herein lays the problem.  I currently use controls called \"PictureBoxes\" to hold the graphics and Microsoft seems to have a problem here with PictureBoxes and transparent GIF\'s (a quick look at the forums out there will highlight this).  Is does support transparent GIFs to some extent in Visual Studio 2005 (that I\'m using to develop) but it sets the background to that of the base (parent) panel.  If you layer child images on on top of each other the transparency shows the base panel colour and not the child object colour as you\'d want.  There are some user written controls out there that say they support  transparent GIF\'s but I\'ve yet to find one yet that i can integrate.  The other solution is to rewrite to use GDI+ graphics rather than picture boxes but this is a major architectural change and I\'m not convinced yet that the benefits outweigh the simpler code structure.  I\'ll look at this again though as I\'d like to fix if I could too.

 

Which bits are slow on your system and what is your machine spec?  I\'m running on a Quad Core Q6600 with Vista Ultimate 64 and also on an EeePC 1000H on Windows XP Home.  I develop on both platforms and the performance from my perspective is surprisingly good on both so interested in what you are finding slow so I can try to speed up further.

 

Incidentally I\'m going to allow you to add browser Window Tabs too in 1.0.17.0 so potentially you can use tabs for camera feeds that display single or multiple feeds in browser windows.   If anyone out there (nice distributers!!) got a couple of Network IP cameras they can give me to test better then i\'d be very grateful as I don’t have any! 

 

Regards

 

Julian

[admin]

I have created a new Subforum in the Comfort Through Internet Forum so that new topics can be created for the Comfort Client. This will be allow better organisation of posts as this is already the 76th reply in this topic, I suggest that Julian can create a new topic for each version that is produced