A equipa PizzaShoot continua o intrincado processo de desenvolvimento de um jogo de elevado nível!
Temos disponível mais um vídeo. Desta vez demonstramos com é possível ligar acessórios wireless da Xbox 360 ao PC através do Wireless Gaming Receiver for Windows. Demonstramos também como utilizar o Input Reporter (disponível no XNA Creators Club) para testar o input não só do gamepad wireless, como também da guitarra que acompanha o Guitar Hero 3! Isto porque a guitarra não passa de um comando com uma disposição diferente dos botões (e com um acelerómetro mapeado nos triggers do comando normal).
Os developers de jogos em XNA ficam então com um leque de possibilidades ainda mais abrangente.
Although the video is in Portuguese, I want to leave the main message to all the potential worldwide readers of this blog. If you connect your Xbox 360 guitar to your PC (a wireless or wired guitar) you can use it as a X-Box 360 gamepad. Use Input Reporter to find out the correspondence between each device buttons. Wireless Gaming Receiver for Windows it the accessory that you need to connect Xbox 360 wireless accessories to your PC.
Have you heard about Windows SideShow? It’s kind of a geeky feature of Windows Vista.
It allows you to connect an external device to your PC, displaying gadgets like incoming e-mails, photo galleries among other stuff. There are already some devices that support this feature. You may be familiar with an ASUS laptop which comes with a display on top of it.
There are other devices detached from your laptop like digital picture frames.
More details available in the Windows Vista official website - Window SideShow details.
A beta version of a piece of software is now available which transforms your Windows Mobile 5 or 6 devices into a Windows SideShow compliant device (using bluetooth).
The developer preview can be found at Microsoft Download Center. Follow the instructions that come with the software. After a successful install you can download and install new gadgets from Window Live Gallery. (Suggestions: Microsoft Office Power Point Remote and Picture Viewer)
You can configure your gadgets for each plugged Windows SideShow device in the Windows Control Panel (Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Windows SideShow).
During the last couple of days I’ve been exploring BizTalk 2006 Business Rules Engine for a college assignment.
The objective is calculating the total cost of a travel. The input is the number of days the customer was staying in the destination, and the number of touristic spots he wanted to visit. The business rules defined the price per night of the stay and the price per visit. These values added to the flight cost gives us the total cost of the travel.
There is a nice tutorial about the BizTalk 2004 version of the rule composer which is quite similar to the 2006 version (at least in the UI). After some search I was unable to find an answer to my particular problem (was it that obvious?… read further and tell me).
I wanted to calculate the cost per visit and cost per night within the policy (I wanted to set these values) and I also wanted to calculate the total cost of the travel based on those variables (by getting their values).
(I am using an XML file as input which has the elements I talked about before)
When you create a definition in your vocabulary (which you use do define rules in your policy) you must select the operation you want to do over the element: Get or Set. You can choose only one of them…
So, what’s the trick to perform both actions? Create two definitions of the same element, one as Get and the other as Set.
When a rule uses the Set definition of the element, all the rules that use the Get definition of that XML element read the updated value.
Works great! Just be careful about rules priority. Make sure that rules that read the element value are called after a rule that sets it’s value.
O evento foi ontem, mas as novidades continuam. Agora estão disponíveis no canal do Sapo Vídeos as entrevistas realizadas durante o dia de ontem alguns concorrentes, jurados, oradores e organizadores do evento.
