The Software Development Corner http://www.scanneraustralia.com/blog Private Sub Form1_Load(a Scanner Australia Blog) Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:24:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Bureau of Meteorology Radar Viewer 1.0 http://www.scanneraustralia.com/blog/?p=48 http://www.scanneraustralia.com/blog/?p=48#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:05:28 +0000 Richad http://www.scanneraustralia.com/blog/?p=48 Download is now available through the download manager on http://www.scanneraustralia.com/forums

This app comes with the following features,

  • Rain Radar Images of all New South Wales and Victorian sites
  • Doppler Wind Images of all available New South Wales and Victorian Sites
  • National Radar Image
  • Auto Refresh
  • no need to install – simply run from anywhere via the .exe

This build auto refreshes – which means that you can leave it running and it will always display the latest information. I am planning on expanding this nationally a bit later on.

]]> http://www.scanneraustralia.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=48 2 Concept #1 – BOM Radar Viewer http://www.scanneraustralia.com/blog/?p=37 http://www.scanneraustralia.com/blog/?p=37#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:51:56 +0000 Richad http://www.scanneraustralia.com/blog/?p=37 The first concept screenshot is available of the new Radar Viewer app for windows computers. This little program will enable a user to view the latest radar image for a location of their choice – without having to go to the weather websites.

This version does not do looped images due to the complexity of coding such a thing in VB.net. If the app turns out to be popular, I will create all the layers and loops required to display multiple images.

This program does not require installation – the executable is all that will be required.  This is an early version of the software -  an update should follow soon – with available download soon after.

]]> http://www.scanneraustralia.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=37 0 Location Info – Australian Traffic Cameras Beta 3 http://www.scanneraustralia.com/blog/?p=8 http://www.scanneraustralia.com/blog/?p=8#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:19:29 +0000 Richad http://www.scanneraustralia.com/blog/?p=8 How information is being brought across to the user can be very important. I was planning to include text based location information for the MultiView screen but after a short trial I decided to get rid of it permanently.

A better way to relay the location information is by pop up. The balloon notification function is the best way to do this. Below is a screenshot on how all this works. Simply by hovering your mouse over the image will give you the current location. I am also planning to include some more info in this during one of the later builds.

As you can see, all information is relayed through pop-up style balloons. There will be the option to disable as well.

]]> http://www.scanneraustralia.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=8 0 MultiView – Australian Traffic Cameras Beta 3 http://www.scanneraustralia.com/blog/?p=1 http://www.scanneraustralia.com/blog/?p=1#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:01:32 +0000 Richad http://www.scanneraustralia.com/blog/?p=1 I was planning on having an area where I can update all people interested in my software. This blog will basically be the only place where I will post updates, new features and concepts.

MultiView

I have been working on this for a little while but never had time to post about it. MultiView had been requested by many users since it makes viewing multiple cameras easy. Regions are divided into Zones of 6 cameras each.

For example; The screenshot below shows all inner city cameras.

Screenshot of the MultiView screen in the latest development build. All 6 cameras update automatically every 60 seconds on average. A reasonably fast connection will be required to use this feature. Slower connections still work but may take longer to grab the images from source.

A button has been added to access the Zone. This invokes a call to the MultiView form to include all cameras in this Zone.

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