Painter
Painter is a Windows program designed to replicate Ambilight functionality using Philips Hue lightbulbs other available technologies.
It is very likely that this will not be of use to you - this is being used to learn best practice etc for C# applictions.
So what is the applications actual purpose?
The application is intended to try and replicate Ambilight functionality found in various TVs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11bvDEs0Mdc) with Philips Hue 'networked' lighting products any similar technology.
The application should provide this functionality for anything that is shown within Windows, be that visualizations, media or games etc.
You'll notive some strikethroughs above. This is because if I do Best Practices right, I should be able to implement an extendable plugin architecture so not just Philips Hue is catered for...
Whats this about Best Practice?
My experience is with VB.Net under ASP.Net and WinForms. This needs to change.
So I decided to give C# a blast with this concept. I actually have a running exe that performs tis programs purpose, but a poper coder will have a heart attack looking at the source, so I'm using this as a way to learn and force best practices down m throat.
This includes - but is not limited to - the following:
- WPF instead of WinForms
- Naming conventions
- Code comments
- cAsE cOnVeNtIoNs
- Use of Application and User settings
- Resource files to allow localis[z]ation
- 10-15 lines per function
- ALL THE THINGS should only be done once
- Objects
- Stop using globals(?)
- Stop using GOTO (JOKE joke joke)
- UI agnostic - GUI provided but should be easy to create a CLI for (eg)
- ...
This means that the code will be constantly evolving, even though the opbject of the app may be achieved.