The Sherpa Project

I just recently updated BVC for a few requested features (options dialog, live skin switching, configurable polling, keyboard shortcuts, et cetera). None of these are big changes, but they do make the tool a little easier to interact with (no more modification of xml files).

I have a handful of things that I would like to change (mostly related to usability) and some code that I want to clean up before I put out a version 1.0 drop and I’ll probably get around to this sooner than later.

The one additional thing that I’d like to see are some requests for different types of visualizations that can be built into the tool. The current visualizations (there’s only two) are very simple and they seem to work very well. While these two visualizations are nice and simple, I’d like to put a few extra skins in place before doing the 1.0 drop.

If you’ve got any ideas or have any inspiration for what can/should be done, please head over to the GetSatisfaction site and put your ideas on the thread that was just started.

Currently, the two views are LiveStackedStatus and LiveUniformStatus (these will be given friendly names before the release). Here are the two views…

LiveUniformStatus

LiveStackedStatus

Both of these views are only relevant if you have multiple projects being hosted by your cruise instance. If you only have a single instance hosted, then you’ll only see one large box with your project status. The best view typically depends on the number of projects that you have available. If you have more than four projects hosted then LiveUniformStatus tends to give you the best view and four or fewer projects tends to look best with the LiveStackedStatus.

If you have non-visualization requests, you can also feel free to post them and I’ll take them into consideration as well.