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bencarey replied on September 18, 2009 14:56 to the question "Multiple CC Instances" in Big Visible Cruise:

You can't. If you need to do that, you can just run multiple instances and tile the windows.

A comment on the question "Cannot get BVC to run... what am I doing wrong?" in Big Visible Cruise:

If you browse to that url and view source, you'll see the xml that BVC is looking for. This location is slightly different based on the Cruise platform and version that you are using.

I'm not sure exactly where that lives in your cruise implementation, but it might be worth digging through the source to the Cruise version that you're running to try and find it.

BVC does an http get to any url and looks for a file in a format that is similar to the one that you'lll see when you view source. You might try searching through the Cruise mailing list for the platform that you're on and seeing if you can find it there.

Thanks,
Ben – bencarey, on March 19, 2009 14:54

bencarey replied on March 19, 2009 00:42 to the question "Cannot get BVC to run... what am I doing wrong?" in Big Visible Cruise:

Try using a url like: http://www.spice-3d.org/cruise/xml

That url appears to work and it's running against a Java cruise implementation (not sure of the version though).

The error message will show up on the poll interval. By default, that will be every 15 seconds.

Let me know how it goes.

Sorry that it took so long for me to respond.

Thanks!
-Ben

bencarey replied on March 18, 2009 02:46 to the question "Cannot get BVC to run... what am I doing wrong?" in Big Visible Cruise:

Just saw that this post after viewing the last one.

Well, that answers my Cruise version question.

Let me dig around a bit. The text from the webpage is out of date based on the latest release. I must have missed that reference.

bencarey replied on March 18, 2009 02:43 to the question "Cannot get BVC to run... what am I doing wrong?" in Big Visible Cruise:

Sorry about the lack of response. Apparently, my notifications were going into my junk mail.

The currently build of BVC is looking for that url. That url works ok with ruby and .net versions of Cruise, but I think that regular Cruise isn't supporting the same endpoint.

What version of Cruise are you using?

Try to go back to a prior download of BVC (about a year ago) and take a look at the configuration file.

I currently don't have a box with .Net installed on it, but plan on wrapping up a new release to BVC soon.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Let me know the version of Cruise that you're running and I'll try and setup a similar environment and see what is going on.

Thanks!
-Ben

A comment on the discussion "What other visualizations would you like to see?" in Big Visible Cruise:

Sounds good. I haven't played with Git much, but it's on my todo list for sure. It sounds like there are some great advantages. – bencarey, on December 20, 2008 17:30

A comment on the discussion "What other visualizations would you like to see?" in Big Visible Cruise:

I think it sounds like a great idea. I'd like to have this where there are a good variety of visualizations to choose from.

I suck at WPF as well, so that's not an issue with me. I don't write much code either - so there aren't any complaints on my side :) – bencarey, on December 17, 2008 04:41

A comment on the discussion "What other visualizations would you like to see?" in Big Visible Cruise:

Great. Thanks for the contribution. I'll take a look and get it integrated the next time I'm in the code.

Thanks!
-Ben – bencarey, on December 17, 2008 04:38

A comment on the discussion "What other visualizations would you like to see?" in Big Visible Cruise:

Great. Thanks! – bencarey, on December 16, 2008 01:45

A comment on the discussion "What other visualizations would you like to see?" in Big Visible Cruise:

I really like it. I think the only thing to make it configurable is to create a skin for it and add it to the options in the setting page (with the path to the skin). If you send me the XAML, I can do it before the next drop.

Thx. – bencarey, on December 15, 2008 02:05

A comment on the discussion "How are you using BVC?" in Big Visible Cruise:

There is currently a patch in the issue list that was submitted that shows the name of the individual that broke the build. You could certainly modify that to put up an image :)

I haven't added the patch b/c I was waiting on the latest CCNet to be released. It's released - just haven't had the opportunity yet. – bencarey, on December 15, 2008 02:00

A comment on the discussion "How are you using BVC?" in Big Visible Cruise:

Funny, I had this in there and removed it (didn't think anyone was using it). I think this would also provide a workaround for your request of showing the builds better when there are a bunch of builds to see). You could run two instances and filter each one differently. There's a good chance I'll put the filter back in. – bencarey, on June 17, 2008 17:15

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A comment on the discussion "What other visualizations would you like to see?" in Big Visible Cruise:

I've thought about that as well. There should be a good story for this. – bencarey, on June 16, 2008 14:06

A comment on the discussion "What other visualizations would you like to see?" in Big Visible Cruise:

Sounds great. Go ahead and submit a patch when you get a chance.

I'll apply it before I do the 1.0 release (and just have it fail silently for now).

Thanks!
-Ben – bencarey, on June 06, 2008 13:53

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A comment on the discussion "What other visualizations would you like to see?" in Big Visible Cruise:

That's great. Thanks for the help there.

I think XmlStatusReport.aspx is only exposed from .rb and CCNet and that it's a different url for the java cruise. My code changes that in the trunk right now break on anything that doesn't expose XmlStatusReport.aspx (at least if you use the settings dialog instead of the config file) because of a converter I added for usability-sake.

Overall, I'd like to keep it where you never have to specify which version of cruise is running on either end. Overall, it really shouldn't matter as long as the xml exposed is consistent. As far as I know, this is currently the case. – bencarey, on June 03, 2008 10:55

A comment on the discussion "What other visualizations would you like to see?" in Big Visible Cruise:

Sounds good. I'm updating the code fairly frequently right now, but mostly just trying new stuff out.

I also want to write a "hand-drawn" visualization and then do some cleanup and announce 1.0 (likely by the end of next week). – bencarey, on May 30, 2008 14:14

bencarey replied on May 28, 2008 14:19 to the discussion "What other visualizations would you like to see?" in Big Visible Cruise:

I'm not sure what that error message would be. I just pulled over a different machine, downloaded tortoise and did a checkout with the command above and it seemed to work fine (with http://bigvisiblecruise.googlecode.co...).

Regarding showing the last user that committed a change, we use this information, but we just use the information from cctray. So, we use BVC simply for big visibility and cctray when we need more information.

Maybe the best way to have access to see the last checkout is simply to launch the dashboard from one of the build blocks that are show in the visualization.

bencarey replied on May 28, 2008 13:38 to the discussion "What other visualizations would you like to see?" in Big Visible Cruise:

I'd like to see that as well. The issue currently is that the xml that is returned from the cruise instance doesn't provide this information. It's possible to get this from the remoting endpoint in CCNet, but as far as I'm aware, this isn't available from the other cruise implementations (non-.Net).

I'll dig into this a bit and see what else I can find. This feature has been requested before.

As far as the url goes to the repo, it's a command-line url that google publishes. It should be fine from the commandline. If you're using tortoise, use http://bigvisiblecruise.googlecode.co....