07-05-2017, 08:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-20-2017, 08:35 PM by Dean Roddey.)
OK, well millions of dead brain cells later, I have a first demo of the upcoming browser based RIVA client. As you can see from the video it's come out quite nicely so far. There are still housekeeping, optimization and tweaking tasks to do, but this is the bulk of the work. The caching of images needs to be persistent (so it doesn't have to download them each time), but I'm fairly sure I know how that will be done and it shouldn't be too hard. Some management of the image cache to keep it from growing over time needs to be done as well. We need to figure out how to handle things like going full screen and stuff like that.
https://youtu.be/0eCT0sLGX74
[Here is the second demo video, which is considerably further along, so probably just watch this one instead of the initial one above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYdOjpktFhU]
Of course we'll keep the current RIVA server for a while in tandem, to give everyone a chance to move over to the new one. This one works through the web server, since it is browser based. Once it's solid and it's time, we can get rid of the old RIVA server altogether.
This one is a fairly straightforward portage of the existing clients, but it does have some improvements, which you'll see in the video, and the potential for some more.
Some of the more esoteric bits have not been looked at yet either, such as web widgets and web cam widgets, text to speech sent to RIVA clients, and things like. Those may not be addressed for the initial official release, just because we'd like to get it out there and get people using it.
https://youtu.be/0eCT0sLGX74
[Here is the second demo video, which is considerably further along, so probably just watch this one instead of the initial one above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYdOjpktFhU]
Of course we'll keep the current RIVA server for a while in tandem, to give everyone a chance to move over to the new one. This one works through the web server, since it is browser based. Once it's solid and it's time, we can get rid of the old RIVA server altogether.
This one is a fairly straightforward portage of the existing clients, but it does have some improvements, which you'll see in the video, and the potential for some more.
Some of the more esoteric bits have not been looked at yet either, such as web widgets and web cam widgets, text to speech sent to RIVA clients, and things like. Those may not be addressed for the initial official release, just because we'd like to get it out there and get people using it.
Dean Roddey
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