Version "o" Progress Report Options

[geniusalz]

Plugins:
File Explorer [In Progress]
GameSave Manager [In Progress]
Email Client [Recently Started]
Games (lightsout, tetris, minesweeper, pong, etc) [In Progress]
Preview Video Downloading (courtesy of xbox-skins.net) [Server Done, Client Done]
Plugin Downloading (courtesy of mediaxmenu.com ) [Server Done, Client Queued]
Skin Downloading (courtesy of allxboxskins.com) [In Progress]
Image Slideshow Manager [In Progress]
PPF Tool [Script Done, UI Queued]
Text Editor [Queued]
XML Editor [Queued]

Skinning:
3D Freeform Menus [Done]
3D Skin Objects [In Progress]
Skin Object Plugins (e.g. email notification, analog clock, etc) [In Progress]

Scripting:
Major improvements in scripting for this release:
-'Drop in' plugin modules (some listed above). Plugins can be added later by the user as well [Basic Implementation in Place]
-Dialogs ('Forms') [Nearly Done]
-TCP connection handling [In Progress]
-Expression calculator (can now use numerical expression in scripting) [Done]

Others:
Games Database [Initial work done, debugging]
Jukebox [Queued]
Kai client [Queued]

Here's what's in queue, but might not be done for this release:
HDTV 16:9 Support
Avalaunch's Boost Mode Support
IM client(s) (Can be added as a plugin after release)
IRC client (Same as IM)

This post has been edited by geniusalz: Jul 24 2004, 08:28 PM

[koldfuzion]

Addition Image Slideshow Manager [In Progress]

Added to list by YuYu 6/22/04

This post has been edited by Yuyu: Jun 22 2004, 05:15 PM

[josh689]

[geniusalz]

[BenJeremy]

Add Games Database [Initial work done, debugging]


I can work on tying in preview media and icons using the database once infrastructure is in place to grab media over the web (using an ActionScript client).

This post has been edited by BenJeremy: Jul 24 2004, 07:51 PM

[koldfuzion]

whats not in place BJ?

Web-Based Games database, with media, thumbs, mini-covers is up and going.

MXM has actionscript support to do it all.

alpha script written, but i've been quite busy lately.



Downloadable Content << -- all the information you might need is in the first post.

im still at a loss for what exactly the Games DB (in MXM) is for.

This post has been edited by koldfuzion: Aug 1 2004, 02:03 AM

[BenJeremy]

MXM uses the GamesDB for getting bits of information to create menus. You could also add any fields you might want copied into a menu entry - for example, media and thumbnail image paths - that might be added when you download content.

In the near future I'll add a callback to dynamically update the menu items from this database when it gets updated, so you'll see changes in media (as well as names and descriptions), for example, on-the-fly.

[koldfuzion]

gotcha.. im squared away now.

[pelago]

I like the sound of the GamesDB. I made a post a few weeks ago where I proposed that the mxm_entry stuff could be kept in a folder outside of the game's folder (so that I could delete games by deleting their whole folder and re-add them later and keep the customized title/description and so on, without having to fiddle about with saving mxm_entrys). This 'centralised' GamesDB sounds like a solution to this. Does this mean we won't need mxm_entrys in future?

[BenJeremy]

[Infared]

geniusalz,
could you please update the "done/work in progress" list? Its been out dated for more than a month and it would be cool to see whats finished and what not.