That jpeg image viewing with fP...

[Howie]

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Subject: Re: That jpeg image viewing with fP...


| Only Howie would say something like:
| > |
| > | Well, I'm talking about possibly eliminating that entirely.
| > |
| > That would be great - How much. once it is done?
|
| Depends on audience size, expectations of further resales, and how long it
| takes me to get a few particulars ironed out.  Questions, several of
which,
| I asked the other day and for which I received no answers.
|
| If only 2-3 people want it though, I mean, I shouldn't even bother.  It'd
| take me a day or two to get it ironed out to the point I'd be satisfied it
| was stable, and for $60, that's less than one hour of working for someone
| else.  IOW, not worth the effort.
|
| The only way it might be worth it to me if there's no bigger audience is
| in the educational experience of gluing networking into a GUI.  I've done
| GUI, I've done networking.  I haven't mixed the two--yet.  I intended to
| do that with a project I was going to call Wall4Win.  That project would
| be pretty much a client on every Windows system that stays hidden until
| any of the systems it modifies receives a UDP broadcasted system message.
| Basically, 'wall' for Windows.  Why is that desirable?  I know a lot of
| systems (especially as people take everything to browser-based use) where
| nobody's logged in, and it would be nice to just get a desktop message
| rather than have to phone or walk around the office telling everyone the
| system is going down for 5-30min for whatever reason--and again when it's
| back up.  You'd just use a client to take the message and do the broadcast
| to all registered listening machines.  And the broadcasting software could
| be a CLI/GUI combo--if you supply -m message_file it would just broadcast
| that message, but if you don't specify that argument, you'd get a GUI
| text editor with a "Send" button.  I had it planned enough that I learned
| UDP at one point, and I still have my networking code here.  I just
haven't
| mixed it with the GUI UI.  Transmission is no problem.  Listening is
| another issue entirely, but I believe I know what I need to do, besides a
| little bit more reading.  :)
|
| Theoretically, either could be the rough framework for the other.  I could
| more or less get two applications for the price of one and a third or so.
| But I'm not sure I'll actually do either.  No idea on the demand for
| Wall4Win, and still no feedback really on the image viewer.  I hate
| developing on spec in a virtual vacuum, then praying it will sell.
|
| I dunno, what do you think the image viewer should sell for?  (Now that's
| always a leading question...)
|
| mark->
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Don't bother on my account - I don't even service the one customer that had
the viewprint solution - Linda Hapner does and, as I said it's only one
client.

Howie