What Can UberCarrot Do?ΒΆ

Ultimately, at the moment: not much.

It’s fair to say that this is still very much a work-in progress, and in the alpha stage of its lifecycle.

However, UC aspires to grand things! Here’s what we intend to do (at the current stage):

  • Load CCG-generated Flash graphics templates
    • Possibly some kind of media manager/template manager, to explore the contents of the Caspar server?

  • Send arbitrary text strings to CCG 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...

  • Ooh, maybe have a preview window!
    • Figure out a way to have CCG 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 :)

  • Shortcut keys - animate/de-animate?

  • Is it in the remit of UC to be able to configure CCG?

  • Graphics shotbox?

  • Look pleasant