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Coding4Fun

A Note Regarding Supplemental Files Preface

Who This Book Is For What You Need to Use This Book How This Book Is Organized Conventions Used in This Book About the Code Using Code Examples Comments and Questions Safari® Books Online Acknowledgments

From Dan Fernandez From Brian Peek

I. Gaming

1. Alien Attack

Overview Setup Windows Version

Screens

Title screen InputManager

Back to the Game Seeing the Title Screen Game Screen

Adding GameScreen to the main game Sound engine Player ship and sprites Player shots Scoring and lives remaining Enemies EnemyGroup Collision detection and explosions

Running the Application

Xbox 360 and Zune Support

Xbox 360 Zune

Final Thoughts

2. LEGO Soldier: A 2-D LEGO Side-Scroller Popfly Game

Overview Popfly Game Creator Terms Building LEGO Soldier Step-by-Step Building the Popfly Game Designing Custom Actors

Designing a LEGO Model Using LEGO Digital Designer Exporting a LEGO Model Cropping out Empty Space Upload Images to Popfly Building an Actor in the Actor Designer Adding a Health Bar and a Scoreboard

Importing Actors Designing the Main Scene

Designing the Main Scene Adding the Two Cave Background Actor Files Tiling the Background Tiling the Ground Floor Designing the First Half of the Scene Designing the Second Half of Our Scene

Building Game Properties Building Behaviors

Renaming Behaviors

Building the Main Scene Behaviors

Using Shortcuts to Build the Main Scene Behaviors Building a Property Change Behavior to Reset the Health Property Creating a Custom Code Behavior Adding Main Actor Behaviors Using Shortcuts Building the Catapult Behavior

Building the LEGO Security Actor Behaviors

Adding Gravity and Jump Behaviors Using Shortcuts Setting a Random Jump Behavior Adding a Random Motion Behavior Adding a Shooting Behavior Adding a Disappear Behavior

Building the Fire Bullet Projectile Behaviors

Updating the DisappearOnCollision Behavior Creating a Custom Code Behavior to Lower the Health Property

Building the LEGO Skeleton Behavior

Adding Gravity and Jump Behaviors Using Shortcuts Updating the Jump Behavior Creating a Behavior to Follow the Main Actor Setting the Skeleton Disappear Behavior Creating a Custom Code Behavior to Lower the Health Value

Adding Behaviors for the Barrel Actor

Adding the Gravity Shortcut for the Barrel Actor Adding the Disappear Behavior

Building the HealthBar Behaviors

Building a Custom Code Behavior for Updating the HealthBar's HealthValue Creating a Scene Change Behavior to End the Game

Adding the Blind Scientist Behaviors

Adding a Custom Code Behavior to Call the Grow Animation Storyboard Adding Random Left and Right Motion Behaviors Adding a Behavior to Lower the Health Value Adding the Scene Change Behavior to Win the Game

Publishing Your Game

Publishing to Facebook

Final Thoughts

3. FEED READER: An In-Game RSS Reader for World of Warcraft

Overview

Running Feed Grabber Feed Reader Feed Reader Slash Commands

Before We Get Started

A Quick Tour of the Lua Programming Language

Lua types Variable scopes Lua functions Understanding Lua tables Feed Reader's Lua table

FrameXML 101

Layout AddOn Studio for designing FrameXML Templates Events

Understanding the Feed Reader Addon

Dissecting Feed Reader How Feed Reader and Feed Grabber Work The Feed Reader UI

Frames

Adding Code for Frame.xml

Global variables Defining a variable as a saved variable Registering for Warcraft events The SelectFeed and SelectFeedItems functions The SelectFeedItem function The UpdateFeeds and UpdateFeedItems functions The UpdateFeeds function The UpdateFeedItems function Updating the summary OnClick event for Feed buttons OnClick event for FeedItem buttons Adding a basic slash command

Feed Grabber

Common Feed List

Programmatically getting feeds Serializing to Lua Sneaking in data updates by monitoring the Saved Variables file

Final Thoughts

II. Software and Web

4. InnerTube: Download, Convert, and Sync YouTube Videos

Overview

InnerTube's Main UI Running InnerTube for the First Time Adding Videos

How InnerTube Works How YouTube's API Works

Standard YouTube Feeds User-Specific YouTube Feeds YouTube Search Optional Query String Parameters Other Important YouTube URLs

Building Classes for YouTube Feeds and Videos Calling the InnerTubeService Class

Converting YouTube XML into .NET Objects

Downloading Videos from YouTube

Downloading a YouTube Video with Your Browser YouTube Blocks You (by Design) Getting a Session Token from JavaScript Houston, We Have a Token! Getting a Token Programmatically Downloading the Video Downloading a Video's Thumbnail Image

Converting YouTube Videos Using ffmpeg Syncing YouTube Videos to iTunes and Zune

Syncing Videos to iTunes Syncing Videos to Zune

Zune monitored folders

Putting It All Together

Calling InnerTubeFeedWorker

Setting Up the InnerTube WPF Application

Global Variables Application Settings

Building the InnerTube UI InnerTube Skeleton Dissecting MainWindow.xaml

Setting the MainWindow.xaml data context Part 1: The Feed List ListBox

Data binding the feedList ListBox

Part 2: The VideoList ListBox The Data Template UI Data Binding the Video List ListBox Binding to an Image Building the Image Value Converter Setting Up a Class As a Static Resource Part 3: The Details Pane Formatting Numbers in WPF Data Binding in the Details Pane Data Binding to User Controls MediaPlayer User Control UI MediaPlayer Data Binding Playing and Pausing Video

Final Thoughts

5. PeerCast: Watch Videos on Your PC Anywhere in the World

Overview A Tour of PeerCast

Client or Server Mode

Server mode Client mode

How PeerCast Works

How Peer Channel Applications Work

Key P2P terms Peer Channel by example

Building a Peer Channel Application

Listening to P2P messages asynchronously Structuring messages from the background thread to the UI thread

The NetworkManager Class

NetworkManager variables and constructor Starting a connection Running on a background thread Subscribing to P2PLib events Reporting progress to the UI thread while we wait for a connection Keeping the BackgroundWorker thread alive

Listening to P2P Events Using Network Manager

Understanding how the login process works The StatusChanged event Sending commands using chat messages Understanding how chat messages work Receiving chat messages in the ChatChanged event handler Processing commands on the server The GetList ChatCommand

Using C4FP2P to Stream Videos

Understanding how video streaming works Setting up a video stream Two different StreamChanged events The P2PLib StreamChanged event Logging messages when streaming a video Finished streaming a video Ending a connection

Building the Application UI

Choosing the Application Mode

Storing the PeerCast mode

Building the MainWindow.xaml UI

Defining the four-cell grid The login cell The Message cell The Client controls cell Server controls and the media player cell

Adding the MainWindow.xaml Code

MainWindow properties MainWindow constructor Signing in Receiving UI updates from ProgressChanged Toggling the UI Receiving a video list Deserializing the file list Playing a video Sending a Play message Sending a full-screen play message Getting a list of videos from the server Selecting the video streaming directory When P2pWorker completes

Final Thoughts

6. TwitterVote

Overview

Twitter Rules and Limitations

Building TwitterVote

Twitter: Under the Hood The Twitter API Twitter Implementation Voting Implementation

Displaying Results with Popfly

Embedding the Popfly Results Graph Running the Application Sample Poll and Results

Final Thoughts

7. WHSMail: An Outlook Webmail Add-in for Windows Home Server

Overview Understanding the Setup Architecture Building the Host Application Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

Contracts and Entities Configuration

Using Outlook and MAPI ASP.NET "Client" Deployment

WHSMailWeb

Running the Application Final Thoughts

III. Hardware

8. Wiimote-controlled Car

Overview Building the Hardware

Phidgets Phidget 0/0/4 Interface Kit Phidget 0/16/16 Interface Kit

Building the Software

Software Requirements Software Implementation

Special steps for 64-bit Windows users

Using the Application

Pairing the Wiimote Installing the Phidget Interface Kit Driving the Car

Final Thoughts

9. Wiimote Whiteboard

Overview Defining an Interactive Whiteboard Using the Wii Remote Infrared Camera Using IR Pens

Building the Circuit Preparing the Dry-Erase Marker

Setting Up Your Project Warping the Camera Coordinates Touch Calibration Putting It All Together

Parsing Data from the IR Camera

Using the Software Final Thoughts

10. Animated Musical Holiday Lights

Overview Building the Hardware

Information on Amperages

Writing the Software

Software Requirements Software Implementation

Sequence Grid display Playing music Recording data Playing a sequence

Creating a Show

Final Thoughts

A. Using the C4fStyle File for WPF Projects

C4fStyle Overview

Adding the C4fStyle File to Your Application

Generic and named styles Style reference Before and after

Index About the Authors Colophon

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