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Case Screensaver

http://photos.case.edu

1 Introduction
- 1.1 Help and FAQ
2 Development
3 Status
4 Screen Saver Preferences Layout

[edit] Introduction

The Case Screensaver web site is http://photos.case.edu. Use the site to download the screen saver software (for Windows or Linux) and to submit photos for the screensaver.

The screensaver connects to multiple RSS streams which contain links to photos. RSS streams can contain photos from a specific category (such as "Case Campus", "Flyers", or "Greek Life"), photos submitted by a specific person, or all photos recently added to the site.

[edit] Help and FAQ

On our project site.

[edit] Development

The Case Screensaver project has two components, the screensaver itself and the photos.case.edu Web application. The screensaver is written in Java and makes use of the Java SaverBean SDK. The Web site is based on the Ruby on Rails framework.

Interested developers should write to photos-admin@case.edu. Please include any experience you have with Java or Ruby on Rails - but remember that experience is not required!

[edit] Code Repository

All code for the Screensaver project is in a Subversion repository which is located at http://opensource.case.edu/svn/screensaver. You can browse the code and do other nifty things at the trac project page: http://opensource.case.edu/projects/screensaver.

[edit] Developer Environment

For the Screensaver: The Java 5 JDK and Apache Ant are required. You'll also need the SaverBean SDK. In order to create the Windows install executable, you will need NSIS and Wine to run it under Linux. Development is currently being done using Eclipse Java IDE and team synchronization using the Subclipse SVN Plugin.

For the Web Application: To work on the web site on your machine, the following are required: Ruby 1.8.x, Rails, RMagick (which itself requires ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick), and MySQL or SQLite 3.

[edit] Brainstorming

Discussion of future screensaver and web site features has been moved to the talk page: Talk:Screen Saver

[edit] RSS File Format

Feeds are in RSS 2.0 format, with Pheed markup to specify the images. There is also an escaped html img tag in the RSS description field so a thumbnail image will appear in non-Pheed-enabled newsreaders.

Example:

<item>			
  <link>http://photos.case.edu/photos/get/42.jpg</link>
  <guid>http://photos.case.edu/photos/get/42.jpg</guid>
  <title>Hotel view in Maui</title>
  <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:59:18 -0400</pubDate>
  <category domain="http://photos.case.edu/categories">Nature</category>
  <photo:imgsrc>http://photos.case.edu/photos/get/42.jpg</photo:imgsrc>
  <photo:thumbnail>http://photos.case.edu/photos/thumbnail/42.jpg</photo:thumbnail>
  <description>
    &lt;img src="http://photos.case.edu/photos/thumbnail/42.jpg"
      alt="Hotel view in Maui" /&gt;
    Why can't Case be located here??
  </description>
</item>

The ScreenSaver currently looks at these attributes:

<link> -- Will be changed to <photo:imgsrc> in next release

The other tags elements are going to be optionally displayed below the picture in the next release.

[edit] Status

[edit] Recent Code Changes