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Soup to Nuts: Cisco Codec – Part 1

In this series of posts, we’ll develop a basic module for controlling Cisco Room Kit devices. It can be used in SIMPL Windows or SIMPL# Pro programs. It won’t be as exhaustive as the official module available from the Application Market, but it will be enough to handle most video conferencing tasks.

Delegates vs Events

Trying to glean some notes from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/distinguish-delegates-events. All text is from that page (emphasis is mine).

Debugging SIMPL# Pro (3-series)

I’ve run into a problem in my Standard UI program: a button that used to work like a toggle is now toggling on and off immediately. Is it getting called twice? How am I going to track this error down?

Short Take: Button Presses

I’ve been working on rewriting our Standard UI in SIMPL# Pro and have tried a couple different approaches to map button presses to program logic. I figured a short post about what I’ve been exploring might be helpful.

SIMPL# Pro Primer: Smart Graphics

In this part, we’re going to explore how to interact with Smart Objects from SIMPL# Pro. You’ll need to have an XPanel layout to follow along. You can download my project from GitHub. It looks something like this:

Soup-to-Nuts: Phonebook Module (Part 4)

Here is the final part to this module: wrapping it up and making it easy to use. SIMPL Windows is a powerful tool because it easily abstracts away a lot of details about how things happen. The way our phonebook works under the hood will be a detail we needn’t worry about, it will just plug into our larger programs.

Soup-to-Nuts: Phonebook Module (Part 3)

In this part, we’ll add support for pages to our phonebook. That may not sound like much, but it will set us up for the 4th (and final) part where we wrap everything into a SIMPL User Macro that we can easily drop into our programs.

Soup-to-Nuts: Phonebook Module (Part 2)

In this part, we’ll continue to develop our Phonebook class to provide more functionality to our SIMPL Windows programs. We won’t quite finish in this part, but we’ll be very close.

Make sure you download the current source code from GitHub, too.

Soup-to-Nuts: Phonebook Module (Part 1)

I thought it would be a good idea to document from start to finish (soup to nuts) the process of building modules in SIMPL#. I hope to do a few of these as I build out some helpful modules.

Code is available at https://github.com/kielthecoder/SoupToNutsModules.

Embracing Git

I admit, I’ve used the poor man’s version control for many years since it’s what was adopted by the team I worked with: renumbering the file every time you go to save it. I’ve used git for many years in other projects, but never for my day-to-day work in the Crestron environment. I’ve played around with it a little and think I’ve come up with a set of guidelines that will make it work for me.