Awareness Icon: Forming ad-hoc groups around artifacts
This is extremely preliminary software meant for internal sharing. You probably don't want to try this out yet.
Contents
Download and Installation
- Awareness Icon: Description. See Installation Instructions.
- Go here for previous versions of this software.
Awareness Icon Installation Instructions:
- Download and extract awarenessicon.zip.
- Execute AwarenessWebItem.exe.
Walkthrough
- For now, use the shared dictionary at tcp://136.159.7.33:test
- Sign up an account with first time login.
- Add a new group under the groups tab.
- Select and open the newly added group for a web item.
- Add or drag emails in the list of members under users tab of the web item window.
- Select and invite members one by one.
- Select one member and click invite button.
- Drag the Web tab to a messenger or email client window to manually invite a user.
- Insert a container from the combo box under the new container box.
- Drag a URL from a browser and drop into the web item tab or an image under the picture tab.
- Upon receiving an invitation, a user downloads the binary and signs up her account.
- She can see all the groups she was invited into in case of automatic invitation.
- She can drag the group GUID from the manual invitation to the group list under groups tab.
- She selects and opens a group to join.
- She quits an joined group by selecting a group and clicking the remove button.
- The owner removes an owned group by selecting a group and clicking the remove button.
- A user signs off by closing the main window.
Bug List
- .Net Bitmap/Image screw-up
- Run BitmapBugDemo in Visual Studio 2005 Debug Mode.
- Click the button on the bottom to set up a connection to a shared dictionary.
- Drag and drop an image onto the form to trigger the problem.
- The form is supposed to tell the dimensions of the dropped image.
- However, the image in the shared dictionary loads magically if you run this program for a second time.
Links
- Put link in for Artifact Buddy
Tutorials and Examples
- (Under Construction)