UberCarrot

Acts as an interface to CasperCG, provides a graphics operator the ability to fill in dynamic fields in a given Flash (or HTML?) graphic file

Stuff that this needs to be able to do:

• Load Casper-generated Flash graphics templates
• Send arbitrary text strings to Casper in order to populate the graphics fields
• Some form of dynamic text-replacement?
  • Maybe that means a lookup table of sorts, which refers to a plugin that returns a text string on every refresh?
  • Like {{clock}} refers to a function make_clock which returns a string
• A plugin architecture of sorts - but only of the field-replacement variety (as above) for now...
• Look nice (for James).
• Ooh, maybe have a preview window!
  • Figure out a way to have Casper generate a second output for the preview window dynamically
  • Or maybe have a Flash player panel, and see if we can get data into the Flash player...
• Be able to save and recall graphics, pre-filled
  • Prepare graphics ahead of time, save them and load them back in when necessary
    • This could be done by saving Caspar Datasets :)
  • Number-based? As in a graphic and associated content could be assigned a given number
    • When the number is keyed in (numpad only?), the graphic + content is recalled together, pre-filled
    • Let's be honest, we're basically appropriating features from Chyron Lyric here ;)
• Shortcut keys - animate/de-animate?

Known Issues

• Currently no support for getting/setting custom audio layouts and mix configs - only the default CCG-provided ones.