Main > Software Forum

CPWizard v0.97 Beta 1 - Public beta release

<< < (3/6) > >>

Organic Jerk:

--- Quote from: headkaze on September 02, 2007, 10:50:21 pm ---It's pretty much a generic name for a program like this.

--- End quote ---


That may be true, but then what you're saying is you don't mind giving your program an already used generic sounding name "because it's just a generic application, anyway"...


Not only that, but it confuses people and leads them to start thinking in terms of "genuine" and "clone"..


It's always good to give your work a name that is it's own, especially when you want people to consider it exemplary.


NOTE:  I also thought that this was connected with the other CPViewer up until a few posts ago..

headkaze:
Okay I changed the name to CPWizard. New version uploaded.

Howard_Casto:
Man, I hate to burst yoru bubble, but you've got to lay off the generic names.  I can't sware to it, but you remember that flash-based app that let you design control panels?  Pretty sure it's name was cpwizard.   ;)

youki:
Nice work,

But  it is a pity that you need to have .NET to use it.

I'm curious, what is the purpose of this features?

* IRC Chat will full color and smilie support


Another question,  the recommanded system is :


--- Quote ---* Pentium 4 2 Ghz
* 512 MB of RAM
* Windows XP
* .NET Framework 2.0
--- End quote ---

I'm curious too , to know why you need so much power for this kind of tool.

headkaze:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on September 03, 2007, 06:38:33 am ---Man, I hate to burst yoru bubble, but you've got to lay off the generic names.  I can't sware to it, but you remember that flash-based app that let you design control panels?  Pretty sure it's name was cpwizard.   ;)

--- End quote ---

Do a search on Google for CPWizard there is nothing coming up. I'm not changing the name again! Although I found a nice util on the Net that makes changing project names easy just in case.


--- Quote from: youki on September 03, 2007, 07:09:35 am ---Nice work,

But  it is a pity that you need to have .NET to use it.

I'm curious, what is the purpose of this features?

* IRC Chat will full color and smilie support

--- End quote ---

People wanted a place to chat so I added an IRC client to CPWizard. The purpose of it is to chat to other people who have arcade cabs or brag about your current high score or whatever. I don't think all things need a reason, some things are just cool to have.


--- Quote from: youki on September 03, 2007, 07:09:35 am ---Another question,  the recommanded system is :


--- Quote ---* Pentium 4 2 Ghz
* 512 MB of RAM
* Windows XP
* .NET Framework 2.0
--- End quote ---

I'm curious too , to know why you need so much power for this kind of tool.


--- End quote ---

Those are recommended specs but are probably a bit of an exaggeration, but the reason is I chose to use GDI+ initially to support alpha channel png graphics. To use Direct Draw overlays you also need to have a bitmap on a surface so that was another reason. So the performance issues on slower machines is all to do with alpha channel graphics, GDI+ and Direct Draw overlays. I never intended to make this into a menu driven program so at first there was no need to worry about frame rates, but then I kept adding more things on, so you need a fairly decent machine and video card to run it. I'm not particularly fond of the idea of re-writing the rendering engine into DirectDraw or Direct3d to speed it up. I have written programs in those API's so it's not that I can't it's just that it wasn't a consideration in the beginning.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page

Go to full version