Hunter Hale

The interface is pretty much done and ready to be propagated with behaviors.  I thought we would have a few more participants a couple game AI people requested the study link again and I figure demand will grow for the possibility of extra credit once the third homework grades go back.

I am throwing popups into the help system at the moment while waiting for the behaviors.

I think I might have found the ultimate python creation tool. Boa constructor has pretty much everything you could want in an ide and the price is definatly right. Available here.

Here is the behavior builder I threw together in a couple hours using it.

The only problem with it I have found so far is that it doesn’t inherently support open graphic library in its form builder.

There has been continuing progress on our study another game AI person took it and we had another random trickle person.  I am also looking into some tools to speed up python UI development for the next several interfaces.  It occurred to me that somebody must have written a visual drag and drop interface auto builder for python(ala fluid, visual studio, netbeans) and it does indeed appear that there are several in various stages of completion which I am examining.

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Found a couple of interesting things about the wx library over the weekend. First off they use the british english spellings of some words in there method calls which resulted in much pain(colour rather than color, ect). Secondly the top level stand alone class is Frame not Window. I found a pretty good rough guide to using the library buried in the online documentation that helped a lot.

The included shape drawing system in wxpython(ogl python) is document here - such as it is.

Then I found the wxpython recipe cook book which is also a really good resource available here.

Attached are the images and All Graffle Files for the

And the Mock ups:

Agent Properties

Behavior Builder

The Highly tenative block behavior constructor that we won’t need for a while

The go to point and patrol setup form.

And the main interface

Spent the last 3 days fighting with wxPython and looking for a good API for it. I finally found one hidden in its online docs. Classes by name and by catagory both point to usuable API’s. Time to start flying on interface design implementation.

Study Update: We have 5 new participants this week bringing our total to 8.

The remaining important subsumption papers were read and posted and I reviewed some of my old notes on public ally available AI design tools.

Interface design progressed nicely and the final prototypes are currently being generated in omnigraffle.