Adding labels should be pretty straightforward, added bonus of TouchOSC’s receiving capabilities is that you can send OSC messages of type string or any kind of number to the control and have it displayed. There’s some more new stuff in this release like a new “z” message that is sent from Faders, XYs, Rotaries and Multi-Faders when touches begin/end (which people tell me allows to emulate the popular KaosPad) and a new “/vibrate” message you can send to the iPhone that will make it, well, vibrate.

Hope you enjoy this one and PLEASE, if there’s any problems/questions/etc do EMAIL me at dev AT hexler DOT net and DO NOT comment here with your questions. And for the love of technology DO STOP sending me all this nasty hate-mail telling me how f(#(#$ed up it is that this and that feature is not included yet or that my piece of s&$^t software doesn’t work, it’s not like I am trying to piss off people with what I do so I suggest you try the same. Any constructive criticism welcome though. KTHX.

As I stated in my last post, next up is a proper manual, which is almost ready to go, and the next version, which will add labels and which will be submitted soon as well, but of course will probably be stuck in review for a while again… SIGH. Anyway, have fun customizing and drop me a line at dev AT hexler DOT net with feedback/bugs/flames/marriage proposals and all the crazy stuff you’d like to see in future versions, which I know there’s plenty of :)

Cheers,
rob

Next on my to-do is finishing a proper manual for both app and editor… thanks by the way for not flaming me as much as you could have for the absence thereof with the current version :)

Also about to be finished is of course the addition of labels, which still needs some work and has been cut from this release for the sake of making it available sooner and also the addition of a tasty multi-touch control a lot of people have been asking for. Expect some news on these matters soon after the release of this update.

Thank-you’s go out to all my beta testers and all people taking the time to write encouraging e-mails full of input, feedback and videos of their very inspiring applications.

Cheers,
rob

I decided not to give every control a “show label” option but to make a label its own control for maximum flexibility. You can choose where to put them and also stack them on top of other controls. I am also planning to let labels receive text values over the network and might offer an option for linking them to other controls’ values for local feedback. As you can see they come in horizontal and vertical versions, can have colored backgrounds and an optional outline. All configurable in the editor of course.

The only drawback with the current implementation is that I chose to implement the text rendering as an old-school bitmap font instead of native iPhone text-rendering, for maximum portability and pixel-perfect preview in the editor. Because of this the font size cannot be adjusted and labels will have a fixed “height” for now, but I might just include some more font options in the future for all of you who think this is way too small. I am just a sucker for monospaced, aliased 10pt fonts though :) What do you think? Too small for you?

On a different note, thanks to all the people who replied to the call for testers in my last post. I will get back to you all in the next couple of days and hopefully push out the editor to you soon thereafter. I also have been very slow answering email, sorry, don’t despair, I will get to that as well, just putting the priority on the software right now – I hope you understand. I am planning to host a forum on this site in the near future, hope that will bring somewhat quicker replies from me and others to all of your questions and problems.

Til then,
rob

So I moved the site from a relatively unknown wiki-engine called Nanoki over to the almighty WordPress. The reason I used Nanoki for so long was because it is written in Lua which I have deep affection for, having used it as my embedded scripting engine of choice for many years. Anyway, I hope this move will enable me to keep everyone up to date more easily, mostly regarding progress of TouchOSC development …

I have received and enormous amount of email containing questions/suggestions/feedback/etc concerning TouchOSC, and on one hand I guess that is a good sign of having a healthy, decently-sized user-base, on the other hand because of my “real” life being extremely busy since last year, I have been virtually unable to answer every single message in my inbox as I wish I could have. So if you’ve written to me and haven’t heard back from me at all, please write again to dev@hexler.net as a reminder.

As I hope most of you know I am working on an editor application to allow customized TouchOSC layouts, and even though the release has been delayed many times because of the aforementioned life being extremely hectic, it is progressing nicely lately and will be released next month if everything goes as planned for a change, fingers crossed.

Which brings me to the point that I would really like to sign up more testers which will be receiving preview versions Real Soon™, specially if they are working on Windows or Linux. Drop me a line at dev@hexler.net if you’re interested and let me know what platform/software you are using.

Yours truly,
rob