Week 7

This week Thomas had been working on the 3d part and he has start to work with the leap motion. He is done with the 2D API.



Mardia is still working on the buildings from tec. She worked first on a ver simple version that is tec with boxes only. Now is working on the details of it.

LeapTable API

LeapTable API




The leaptable uses an API (Application Program Interface) to create the GUI (Graphical User Interface).

This API is coding in C++ 11 and works only on windows (7 to 10) and uses for the graphics SFML (version 2.3), OpenGL and the LeapMotion API v2.


How it’s works?
The LeapTable’s API use XML files to create all of the objects, so at the beginning, the software load a folder who contain all of the files, assets and resources.
This folder has this type of hierarchy:
Main Folder
|- Window.xml (Contains all file’s names for the pages and resources)
|- Pages (is the folder who contain all of the pages)
|- PageOne.xml
|- PageTwo.xml
|- …
|- Assets
|- 3DModels
|- 3DModelsfile
|- …
|-Font
|- fontfile.ttf
|- …
|-Texture
|-textureFile.png
|- …

This is an example of window folder :
Window.XML
<Window Title="Hello World">
<Page File="PageOne.xml" Tag="PageOne"/>
<Page File="PageTwo.xml" Tag="PageTwo"/>

<Font File=”Font.ttf” Tag=”FontName”/>

<Texture File="Texture.png" Tag=”TextureName”/>

<3DObject File=”3DObjectFile” Tag=”3DObjectName”/>
</Window>

Page.xml

<Page Background="0xffffffff" Tag="PageOne">
<Object Type="Button" Tag="ButtonOne" Posx="10" Posy="10" Height="20" Width="10" Background="0xffff0000" Foreground="0xff0000ff" Border="0xff00ffff" ContentText="Click On Me" OnClick="OnButtonClick_2"/>

<Object Type="Button" Tag="ButtonTwo" Posx="30" Posy="10" Height="20" Width="10" Background="0xfff42580" Foreground="0x424242ff" Border="0x424242ff" ContentText="ButtonText" OnClick="OnButtonClick_3"/>

<Object Type="Button" Tag="ButtonThree" Posx="30" Posy="30" Height="20" Width="10" Background="0xffff0000" Foreground="0xff0000ff" Border="0xff00ffff" ContentText="Go to PageTwo" OnClick="OnButtonClick_4"/>

<Object Type="TextBlock" Tag="Text" Posx="10" Posy="40" Text="I'm a text" Font="Arial" TextSize="20" Foreground="0xff26aaff" />
</Page>


For the moment, the API can recognize 3 types of object in 2D: Button, ButtonCircular and TextBlock

Week 4

The Team has lost a member, so for now is only Thomas and Mardia.
The project change a lot too, insted of showing the Leap motion with a coocking game, we will be showing it with a 3D map of Tec. The maps app in Windows 10 does it , but is not avaible for Guadalajara.
Today, Thomas is working on the library, tha API.
For the 3D part, the main idea will the that it is as close to reality as possible, so it'll be done it from a real map. we'll use as reference the maps that is on google Maps.