Return to Songbase!
Having just about finished tidying up the loose ends of the assistance I've been providing for Lana and her family & friends at 222ministries.com - and with that site due to go live as soon as the content's up, I've returned to do some more work on our (being Wes and I) word projection software - still called Songbase.Actually, the name still needs to be changed - we've had some reasonable suggestions: Songburst, Vision (or Litevision/Provision), Angel, Songvault - but none of them have quite hit the mark yet in terms of being a strong enough but unique enough 'brand' to replace "Songbase"!
But anyway - previous versions with the 'background' support have had a problem with text colours. Due to the way that we have been rendering the text (using a high speed OR based paint operation), any colour except white begins to break up on rendering and black text isn't visible at all :-(
My solution to this has been to start leveraging some of the 'Windowless Rich Edit Control' support in version 2 and higher of the RichEdit.DLL - using this COM interface (and delphi wrappers around it, adapted from various sources) to enable the display of any colour, smoothly blended to an image background, and now even to have shadows under text (woooooo....)
Also the newer version will contain several fixes for known bugs, and should improve the usability of both single-monitor and dual-monitor mode with simplified key shortcuts and extra bits of information displayed in the 'SELECT' mode.
Anyway - that should be out for Beta testing sometime next week, I'm aiming to have it stable and flight-tested before our church conference in about three-four weeks...
posted by RichB @ Thursday, October 19, 2006
6 Comments:
Wow, we really do rock. I'll bring you a BFree CD tomorrow with all my source code so we can start to unify the two.
Seeing as the naming issue lingers on, I'm starting to think of suitably tea-related efforts... SongBrew? SongPot? SongSqueeeeeeze? SongCuppa? SongOneLumpOrTwo? SongBag? SongPyramid? SongGasp? SongGulp?
Hmmm. I need some tea for inspiration evidently.
ViBrews... maybe...
Actually, SongView isn't all that bad.
Want to get away from 'Song....' or '....Song'
I am warming to "vBrews" though... it's memorable, individual, has a good mix of 'official' and 'fun', is tea related and is pretty unique on the web (32 hits on Google, vbrews.com/.org/.net/.co.uk/.org.uk all free!)
And I'm sure we can come up with a dodgy acronym for it if we think we need one!!
Very
Blessed
Resource, helps
Everyone
Worship the
Saviour
Only things against it are that it's not very early in the alphabet (so wouldn't appear so highly in many lists), and it has VB at the start - which could be interpreted as a (false) indication of the language it's in, which could be taken as a bad thing!
Or just Video BRoadcastEr for WorShip
You could always call it Powerpoint ;)
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