Via imgur: "The software in my biomechanics lab."
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That UI is an argument in favor of capital punishment. Or at least corporal punishment. Naughty programmer. Spank! Spank!
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It's a bit busy, isn't it?
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Naughty Programmer: Push To Spank
Start
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Do not push this
button until you
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data source.No but real talk though, I bet it makes lab notes nice and simple: the prof only needs to say the color (and presumably name) of each button, and then it becomes the
monkeysstudents' problem to find and click them. With better designed software you're going to need to describe a bunch of state-changing/menu-opening before each command, and of course people are going to end up in the wrong place and be like “OMG halp I can't find the button!1!!”
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I wouldn't be surprised if the interface gradually evolved over time as each student had to add a button of their own as a project...
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AD_BOARD_NOT_FOUND
It must be in the software, fot that button to be labeled.
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And the bit at the left:
a) Indicating there's more of this monstrosity in another window.
b) That alignment!
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OMG halp I can't find the big red button that blows everything up!
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Whatever.
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This might make a tiny bit of sense if it is used with a touchscreen.
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This might make a tiny bit of sense if it is used with a touchscreen.
By "this" do you mean:
- the software presented in the OP
- your earlier post
- @Buddy's earlier post
- Discourse
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the big red button that blows everything up!
My money is on this one...
It'd be hilarious if it was this one
though...
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The .vi extensions suggest LabView, which is a monstrosity of its own.
The following is the "source" of a LabView program we had to write as students many years ago:
Btw, the nested box with the "0..2" hides several more of these things, like
FWIW, the GUI part looks a bit less terrible, though:
Filed under: The memories! Brain bleach now, plz.
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It'd be hilarious if it was this one
though...Especially since that's right above the help button.
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Hey, it's even got the same set of
controls at the top <troll>right</troll>.What's ui design like with that thing? Click and drag to place, then the location of the control gets stored as absolute coordinates, right?
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Pretty much. Most UI controls exist in both the "UI" view and the "source", so you add them from either. IIRC (it's been a while) both views have a separate set of coordinates, so you can move them around independently in either.
For the "code", there's a "despaghettify" option, but from what I remember, it didn't work very well back then. We ended up arranging stuff by hand. I doubt there was one for the UI, and if so, it probably wouldn't have done anything remotely sensible.
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Those scroll bars, there's even more. And all that whitespace at the top. The shit has everything!
Maybe whoever built this didn't know about menu's?
Anyway @ben_lubar is this some paid thing? I would like to get paid for fixing it
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Those scroll bars, there's even more. And all that whitespace at the top. The shit has everything!
Infiniscroll™?
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Someone should send that to Jeff.
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LabView has some interesting features.
Export to PNG (it somehow encodes the VI program itself into the PNG, it can be drag-and dropped back)
Export to EXE (but the EXE does not run without the LabView Runtime Engine, which is, if I recall correctly, HUGE)
I liked the despaghettify feature last year when I had to use it at university. If your brain is clear your code can be clear too.
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Export to PNG (it somehow encodes the VI program itself into the PNG, it can be drag-and dropped back)
It probably puts it in a private chunk. PNG lets you add any kind of data you like to the file.
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Spore used stenography to encode its creatures, so the PNG files were about the same size as a BMP of the same image.
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Shorthand?
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I may have spelled it wrong, but in my defense, I just woke up 4 hours early.
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Is this your card?
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You think that's bad? For a moment I thought you were replying to me via imgur.
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LabView has some interesting features.
Export to PNG (it somehow encodes the VI program itself into the PNG, it can be drag-and dropped back)That is actually pretty cool.
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It was actually pretty sweet -- you could share a picture of your creation on the internet, and anyone who liked it could recreate the creature just by importing the image.
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It was actually pretty sweet -- you could share a picture of your creation on the internet, and anyone who liked it could recreate the creature just by importing the image.
Cool, but on the other hand, text file
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Since when do text files show you what you're importing tho? I mean, it was aimed to be a solution kids and teens could be comfortable using. Games are not exactly the most serious of business :)
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Considering the data hidden inside the image section of the PNG was just gzipped xml, I'd say it's pretty much text.
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By "this" do you mean:
- the software presented in the OP
- your earlier post
- @Buddy's earlier post
- Discourse
I think he does.
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I have seen a lot of LabView programs, mostly done by non-programmers, and no one has ever come close to mangling the UI so badly.
Edit: It sure looks like it was done in labView though, the point being the people who made it were probably special.
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You think that's bad? For a moment I thought you were replying to me via imgur.
I was really temped to start a topic called via email last night, I still am a little bit, actually...
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That UI is an argument in favor of capital punishment. Or at least corporal punishment. Naughty programmer. Spank! Spank!
That would encourage some. I'd vote for electroshock therapy.
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That is actually pretty cool.
Probably a custom chunk in the file, kind of like how EXIF data works.
Not disagreeing with you.
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It probably puts it in a private chunk. PNG lets you add any kind of data you like to the file.
Probably a custom chunk in the file, kind of like how EXIF data works.
Not disagreeing with you.
???
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Probably a custom chunk in the file, kind of like how EXIF data works.
Not disagreeing with you.
It's clearly there, albeit misspelled.
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misspelled
Apparently YOU missed the spot where I steganographically embedded an @accalia call-out.
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Apparently YOU missed the spot where I steganographically embedded an @accalia call-out.
@FrostCat said:
Probably a custom chunk in the file, kind of like how EXIF data works.
Not disagreeing with you.
Found it!
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To my eye that just looks like a Windows 8 start menu, only with more navigation cues.
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To my eye that just looks like a Windows 8 start menu, only with more navigation cues.
Nah. The buttons aren't flat.
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