I’ve recently put Object Occlusion on hold, after realizing that I cannot let a programming-feature hinder my overall development of ARive, and both Proffesors Høgset and Sørensen have urged me not to forget to also develop content.

So, I have in my influenza-fever gotten out of bed, and sketched a lot, and built a beta-GUI right away.

I’ve made it in Flash and SWFkit. Flash to make it look good, and save me from making it in C++, and SWFkit to enable the GUI to send calls to ActiveX controls, the Windows API, C++ and databases etc.

At the moment the GUI is quite functional; It has a fluent interface, and loads a simple XML database I built to store the library of all the files.

I didn’t know I could build stand-alone apps in Flash, until I discovered SWFkit, even apps that are independent of Adobe/Macromedia’s flash-player, so this has scrambled my progression-plans a bit (by speeding up what I had planned to do later), and I have to rewrite my plans.
XML was easier to get a grasp of than I feared, so now I am ahead of schedule in some aspects of development, but ARive still lacks a lot of functionallity.

Here are some screenshots: