What is the good IDE Tool for iHD programming?

Hi,
I'm totally new to this iHD / HD DVD world and I'm exicted that I found this forum. Hopefully I'll learn a lot from and contribute some opinions to this forum. My 1st question in iHD programming is what IDE tool should be used in programming iHD And my 2nd question is how to run / preview all 3 samples from HD DVD Programming Guide.

Thanks,
-mh


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What is the good IDE Tool for iHD programming?

  • BZM

    Matthias Frener wrote:
    There are already iHD player applications available for testing/verification purpose, but not released yet. So i think the only solution for 'normal people' to get iHD players is to wait some weeks/months ;)

    Is Windows Vista in its current alpha/beta version able to play these iHD titles

  • ShelleyPike

    Andrew,

    Is there a resource that has all of the classes and methods available to iHD or is that something that is also in the works

    Jeff


  • Daniel R. Tarsky

    To run the samples please follow these steps:

    - Launch the Simulator (Start | All Programs | Microsoft HD DVD Interactivity Jumpstart | iHD Simulator)
    - In the simulator go to the File | Open Disc menu
    - Navigate to the Microsoft HD DVD Interactivity Jumpstart | Samples directory
    - Click on the folder you want (button, Chapters or HelloWorld)
    - Click OK

    This will run the samples.

    andrew


  • maag008

    Hi manny.

    There are already iHD player applications available for testing/verification purpose, but not released yet. So i think the only solution for 'normal people' to get iHD players is to wait some weeks/months ;)

    Matthias Frener
    Projectmanager BlueLaser Technologies at Nero AG



  • Alwin

    Vista does not currently support this playback. We will be releasing some utilities soon (as soon as we can!) that will let you develop and playback iHD on a Windows XP PC.

  • ALZDBA

    As soon as I download .net 2.0 I'm going to start on an Eclipse plugin (or at least helper) for this!

    Just something that will mock-up a quick structure for you / maybe some code hinting.

    Looking forward to this VERY much.


  • Martin Odhelius

    Thanks Andrew. Looking forward to it.

  • Subodh Chettri

    Hi mh,

    Welcome, and glad to hear you're excited! :-)

    At the moment we are using Visual Studio to do development, since iHD is XML and ECMAScript. Visual Studio provides both XML and ECMAScript authoring support, as well as ECMAScript debugging.

    You can also use Eclipse or any other IDE that supports XML and script. You could even use Notepad if you wanted to :-)

    Graphics can be created in your favourite program such as Photoshop, as long as it outputs PNGs or JPEGs.

    Currently there is no way to run the samples; hopefully we will have more information about this soon.

    Peter

    http://blogs.msdn.com/ptorr/



  • NomadaPT

    Peter Torr - MSFT wrote:
    Vista does not currently support this playback. We will be releasing some utilities soon (as soon as we can!) that will let you develop and playback iHD on a Windows XP PC.

    Thanks Peter. Your answer answered my question. In my 'spare' time, I wanted to start trying creating content that would play. I was starting to confuse this work with the WMV-HD disc that will currently play in Media Center. Cleared it up.


  • Alessandro Moacyr Duarte

    We’re working on more samples which we hope to release soon. These samples will cover more complex menuing and animation so it should help guide you
  • Miguell - MSFT

    And my 2nd question is how to run / preview all 3 samples from HD DVD Programming Guide.

    Answer: iHDSim.exe


  • Tailor

    Hi Peter,

    Thanks for your response. I saw and learned some more iHD from your blog as well.

    If there's no tool to run or preview this, how come some companies already release some HDDVD movie with cool iHD (in movie experience) stuff. There's must be some kind of simulator or emulator. Will Microsoft. release something like iHD simulator software soon

    Thanks,
    -manny





  • wackyspat

    The HD DVD simulation and verification tools are now live at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=994accae-1591-4cc0-9d5b-03b0494686a4&DisplayLang=en as part of the HD DVD Interactivity Jumpstart!


  • kh

    Usually Microsoft provides some good samples (eg: IBuySpy when I'm learning ASP.Net). Is there any more samples for iHD. Since it's confusing on what is the best way to do something, for example, some menu pop-up or scroll-up animation. Should I do it in the script or in markup


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