Dynamic Info Screen is a tool for creating high-level digital signage solutions. It is aimed at any person with basic knowledge of media tools. This application only requires screens/scenes, the text to display and a standard PC computer with a Windows OS installed on it. You need to create a project and then you can add all the media objects you want to see displayed in a digital signage presentation.
All the information about one project is stored in a separate folder, which makes it easier for anyone to identify or restore the project. The project files are stored as an XDIS file, and you just need to double-click on it to run the project (provided that you have a Dynamic Info Screen player installed on that machine). It is really a good tool, and certainly worth buying if you are planning to advertise or display different types of information in a professional way using large screens.
My content is few labels one below the other. In same cases, text cannot fit single line and then label frame should increase. In the same time, whole view frame must be also increased and views below must be offset properly. I've made a method to do this, everything is changing except the info window view frame itself. In the logs, I can see frame has changed, but on the screen, it has original size and text is outside of it.
The width though will be full width. I am experimenting with this still, but if you want to add some margins/paddings to the side of the infoWindow in relation to the device width, I think the margins must come directly from the nib file and not trying to set frame width directly to the mainView.
I think once you resize the frame, some views won't display correctly, like for instance some views might be cut off because in change of width a label had to wrap into 2 lines. Then once the view is returned then it is already too late as the view for info window is converted into an image for google maps. Any layoutsubview methods will not affect that info window anymore.
So either you compute the frame correctly, which is very hard to do, specially because you can't render and get frames correctly or you set up everything before hand in the .xib file and just return that as it comes without altering its frame!
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As an industrial designer in the automotive industry, I often see the industry's effort and attempt to redefine information design/display in a dynamic environment. And especially in recent Detroit autoshows, we notice growing number of items listed below in production vehicles.* Information displays
* Navigation systems
* Multicontrollers
-joystick-type controller to navigate through information on everything from current car-status, weather, map, radio, A/C...
* Displays for Integrated Cellular phones and Web-accessible PDAs I would like to know what your thoughts are on this topic of Information design in Dynamic environments, where one has a very limited time for attention. Where, how do you draw the line and limit information available for driving safety?Is current, automotive instrument cluster, a well-designed example of information design? et cetera.....Just curious on how "non-automotive" minds are thinking on this subject.Sincerely,
Sangwon Choi -- Sangwon Choi (email) As it turns out, I am friends with a number of local car enthusiasts and I posed this very question to them. Here are some thoughts:Digital versus Analog: For the most part, our group prefers analog to digital displays, under the reasoning that you typically want to see quickly what isn't the case (too fast, too slow, no fuel) rather than what exactly is the case (62 mph, 3225 rpm, 6.3 gallons). There are some exceptions: interior and exterior temperature could be exact, miles till empty, and the like, but these are relatively minor indicators.Telematics (the catch-all word for gizmos): these are, for the most part, distractions. Several manufacturers are providing complicated, integrated systems (BMW's I-Drive, for example), and while gizmo fans may enjoy them, drivers do not. The I-Drive has been universally panned, with some commentators going so far as to say not to buy BMWs so equipped (BMW has announced that I-Drive will be a standard feature of all its cars in the future, meaning that the Ultimate Driving Machine may transmogrify into the Ultimate Distraction Machine). Porsche and Chrysler are providing navigation aids that are part of the speedometer cluster (in the Cayenne and Pacifica, respectively), and these may be more successful. Studies are inconclusive on the effect of DWY (Driving While Yakking), but manufacturers are trying to integrate cellular telephony into the vehicle systems. DaimlerChrysler's UConnect is a step in this direction.Vision and parking aids: Cadillac's Night Vision (an infrared camera) has been a disappointment. Park Distance Control, a sonar-based parking/obstruction alert available on many cars, has been successful. For parking aids, it is important to distinguish both the direction of and the distance to the obstacle. Some manufacturers are using a combination of lights and sounds, which seems to work.Heads-Up Displays and Night Driving: Several GM cars have Heads-Up displays available. The designs, if unobtrusive, can be a helpful, redundant reminder of the displays on the dashboard. An improved version of Cadillac's Night Vision may be more effective, but increasingly, manufacturers are adding more powerful headlights and Adaptive Lighting, in which a secondary light up front moves with the steering wheel to provide additional illumination around curves and corners. This, by the way, is not new: both the 1948 Tucker Torpedo prototype and the Citroen DS/SM models of the 1960s and 1970s had lights that swiveled (although the light was fixed on the brief production run of the Tucker). Saab, which also makes aircraft, had a feature adapted from its fighter planes where a driver could "black out" all gauges but the speedometer at night (the gauges would re-light if there was a problem).If I were designing a dashboard, I think I might be inclined to look to the avionics industry. There is a move towards Multi-Function Displays, which show a variety of measures on a single screen. Some replicate the dials digitally, others have all-digital readouts.Finally, a pet peeve: as described recently in The New York Times, there is a growing aggravation with the "Check Engine" light. It is both alarming and non-specific, making it impossible to determine whether the car is safe to drive. Mostly, the "Check Engine" light alludes to some fault in the emissions control system, but it could also indicate a more serious problem. An enterprising manufacturer might consider separating warnings for maintenance from warnings for failures. A pilot faced with a "Check Engine" light would abort the flight immediately; a driver (apparently) need not do so. -- Claiborne Booker
Enterprising manufacturers have, in fact, done so.The "Check Engine" light on the modern dashboard is equivalent to thegrowing class of "smart personal objects" -- devices that reportprevailing trends through a limited vocabulary. The central electronicsmodule tracks so many sensors and engine functions that it would beimpossible to give a meaningful report on any of them individually.But the interpretation of the Check Engine light provided by Audi ontheir North American models is straightforward: 1) If the indicatoris on after starting the engine, there is a condition of interest(e.g. cylinder misfirings above some threshold over time) and thecar should be inspected at your earliest convenience; 2) If theindicator is flashing, there is a serious malfunction, and the driver shouldstop the vehicle and turn off the engine as soon as safely possible.It should be noted (from personal experience) that this explanation is notready-to-hand the first time the warning light goes on (or flashes) and canonly be discovered upon reading the relevant section of the owner's manual.In "the future," the cockpit voice recognition system should respond tothe exasperated driver's question "why is this light on?" by displayingthe relevant entry in the online manual via the nav system screen. -- Tom Dennehy (email)
I agree with Claiborne Bookers comments about analog vs. digital displays in automobiles. I would add that their efficiency is their main asset; the radial spread of numbers against which a clearly visible arm moves across is the best 'at a glance' device to date. Being able to establish range (+/- volts, E-F for gas, etc.) and present status on a single gauge is very easy to see quickly, allowing a driver to keep their eyes where they belong, ahead, where the most critical decisions have to be made. It's why all single engine and most twin and jet aircraft still use them. As for the newer designs in cars today, the rule of less is more has been forgotten, and the resulting distractions away from the important task of driving safely are only putting all drivers at greater risk. Having photographed autos for many years I think the displays in some recent cars look suspiciously like arcade games, with in dash stereos, cel phones, guidance displays and environment status lights all competing rather insistently for the drivers' attention. It seems ironic that the designers who's very successful effort to reduce car owner maintainance and responsibility by building well designed engines that need almost no attention have also propagated this excess of poorly designed displays that demand so much.david/sf -- David Bishop (email)
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