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Curt:
At first I wanted to test your program, because I like to test programs..., but then I changed my mind because of all the "desktop" references... I NEVER go to my desktop; I have nothing to use it for, and the icons are hidden. But this leaves me in the dark, regarding Splinter, I don't know what I may be missing! So please tell if you think your program then can be of interest to people like me who doesn't use the desktop?
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Also, I don't want to go to rapidshare. I agree, DeviantArt has made a big mistake!
dmd7978:
At first I wanted to test your program, because I like to test programs..., but then I changed my mind because of all the "desktop" references... I NEVER go to my desktop; I have nothing to use it for, and the icons are hidden. But this leaves me in the dark, regarding Splinter, I don't know what I may be missing! So please tell if you think your program then can be of interest to people like me who doesn't use the desktop?
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Also, I don't want to go to rapidshare. I agree, DeviantArt has made a big mistake!
-Curt (September 16, 2012, 11:22 AM)
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HA. Absolutely!!!!! THAT is Splinter's 'purpose'. IF by you mean "use the desktop' as in for purely file access functionality. And do NOT mean desktop as in the LOCATION of the desktop environment.
That is 100% why I designed it. To allow for ANYTHING to "occur"/happen/etc on the desktop. Like interactive stories, games, educational presentations. All interactive and in real-time. PLUS have the ability to load purely utilitarian functionality if you so choose.
To be honest, I am JUST like you. I dont have a single icon on my desktop, I do everything through the start menu. I am an MCSE and a hard-core admin user. The latest "icon based" splinterfaces are in no way something that I personally would run. But they are EXACTLY what the majority of end users I have come across, want, and so I had to show the diversity and ability.
If you notice, the first three YEARS of splinterfaces were in NO way anything that was icon based or purely desktop utility oriented. I ONLY did the recent ones cause the majority of users either didnt see how, if Splinter could do complex interactive hotlinkable imagery that did such in depth things as tell stories and educate people, that it could EASILY accomplish such "trivial" tasks as hotlinking standard looking icons that only opened up files and folders.
I LOVE your question. ESPECIALLY, since so many poeple have commented JUST the opposite to it. THAT is Splinter's "power" and breadth of depth. It is completely flexible and completely viable for any and all "types" of things that you would want to do in an interactive media presentation. The KEY about it being a "desktop interface", is that everything can be hotlinked in ways and have imagery "appear" in ways that cannot occur "anywhere" else.
The desktop INTERFACE, not the "other aspects" of the computer, IS, THE most powerful and capable medium, on the planet, due, SOLELY to its hotlink and imagery abilities, basically allowing you to bring the ENTIRE internet and all of its data/info/media, to YOU, rather than having to go OUT to "search" for it. And games and "movies" and stories and informational presentations do not simply have to run "over" your desktop environments anymore, they can be far more powerful and diverse by having that game or story actually BE the desktop interface.
It takes a leap of conceptual "understaning" of how hotlinking EVERYTHING to ANYTHING means that ANYTHING can now happen/occur/take place in the new universe of "spli-space".
It is SO simple, once you start looking at hotlinking things the right way. "Everything" you do on a computer when clicking something, is more or less a hotlink. You could even say that the things you "click"/shoot/etc while playing a video game is a type of hotlink. You are pressing something and something is occurring. The internet is the same way.
The world is run by clicks, nothing more. And Splinter "only" adds the ability to click more things, in new ways. And allows them to be linked to create more complex sequences of "clicks". Nothin to it, "technically"
Also, and you can call it whatever you want, it doesn't "matter" to me, but I want to be clear and say that it isn't a "program". Or at least not 'just" a program. It is the literal dictionary definition of a new visual programming "language", so it is easier to "see" what it is potentially able to do when you look at it that way. What could possible be created with C#? Almost "anything", right? Any type of "anything". That is what I believe Splinter allows for the creation of. It is just a glorified and visual binary system with hotlinks, nothing more.
And the DA comment, thanks, and nice to hear it wasn't just me that thinks it is so foolish!
dmd7978:
Elegant Edition Splinter page screenshots and run through vid demo. Will upload the splinterface later today-dmd7978 (September 15, 2012, 07:18 PM)
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great video :Thmbsup:
-tomos (September 16, 2012, 09:43 AM)
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Thanks tomos! Just a "draft". I will refine it as well as create one with narration for Elegant.
Curt:
-thank you for the thorough and enthusiastic answer.
When I look at the various examples of Desktop Hotlinker Splinter features, I cannot help but wonder if most or even every feature could be offered as auto-hiding / auto-pop-out toolbars / buttons on the sides of the screen - just like any toolbar will offer? Or am I again missing a point?
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My reason of course being that I meant it when I said that I don't go to my desktop - why should I, I can never see it, because it is always covered by windows from the programs I am using...
dmd7978:
auto-hiding / auto-pop-out toolbars / buttons on the sides of the screen - just like any toolbar will offer?
Hi. Thanks again for the reply. Yes, absolutely, splinter can do exactly what you ask, it just does it "differently". I would gladly create/show how/or anything else for ANY specific request or question, it just needs to be asked.
And as I see Splinter and "spli-space" so vividly and "uniquely", perhaps, I see ALL of it, everything that Splinter can do, which is "EVERYTHING" that any and "all" other desktop interface "type" software can do, as simple and without question because it, Splinter, is THE most simple programming "language" on the planet.
When you start to see Splinter as "nothing" more than an imagery based double and sometimes triple binary system, with the triggers either shown or hidden, the splicons either open or closed, and whether you are or are not on a particular page (wallpaper), each NOTHING more than a 1 or a 0, a fully imagery based binary, with the ability to "drag and drop" these triggers and splicons INTO their "animations"(openings), and the ability to, both hotlink by drag and dropping files or folders onto ANY image within a splinterface and "hotlink" by running ANY of the objects within a splinterface through THE most simplistic, yet insanely powerful scripting language, spli-script, which consists of ONLY SIX simple commands that need to be learned in order to create everything I have done and an infinite amount more, "you" "can" no longer believe that ANY limitations WITHIN the desktop environment, now exist.
I have also, I believe, done everything you ask about in several tuts, but will need to know specifically what you mean by each, as I could make "many" different types of EACH of those things you listed, with Splinter, easily
I mean just think of ANYTHING specific that you would want Splinter to do or show you and I will do it, I "guarantee" it. Im a po white guy so I don't guarantee it with bread, just my name and my software's rep. Neither of which are anything stellar to anyone but me, at this point.
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