After 3 months of tinkering with the code, I've smashed it. Just some final tweaking in the control panel and we have some sexy menu. lol Excuse me if I sound a little over joyed, this has been a long time coming. Hoping for a January release. Enjoy the vid. http://youtu.be/iyhubg2XSqU Any questions just let me know. Any plugin ideas or frameworks you want integrating also give me a buzz

There are 8 different views. the video cuts out the refresh time. Rotary: InvertedRotary: Cylinder: InvertedCylinder: Wheel: InvertedWheel: Coverflow Linear

Was waiting for this since your first talked about it... I WANT IT KNOW.... :-) Fantastic work. Miguel

You've submitted it to bt?

I'm so happy miguel it's like a massive personal achievement, so many methods to decipher. I've decided I'm not an app developer, I'm a Buzztouch plugin developer. hahahaha

no not yet, I left the plugin alone for a while due to risk of me launching a £1500 MacBookPro at the wall, had a moment of clarity about half 9, right before I was meant to go to bed.

Great looking plugin! Will the control panel allow icon size and padding changes? Did I mention it looks awesome!

Chees to that. I'd love to able to do it to. Thinking on hiring someone to code it.

Good stuff!! 3 Months of digging and coding. Well deserved. I can't wait to get it :)

that IS cool.

wow - I've been hoping someone would come up with something like this - it's even better than I dreamed up in my head! I don't suppose you can make it Android compatible too?

holy smokes that looks awesome

That looks insanely cool! Got some credit all ready to go!

This and the Aurasma plugin are pretty amazing. Great Job.

Wow This is really cool, Can't wait for the plugin release!!! Good job!! Best Regards, Danny

Thumbs Up! Give the man some points :-)

LOL. Too funny. I just submitted the same iCarousel plug-in to beat the Dec 7 submission deadline a few hours ago! But I didn't get to implementing the button taps yet. That's gold you've got methods done. I want the image tap flip view - but i see you're using a standard IOS screen transition to push another screen. Awesome trick. Still toying with the FXImageView to get good reflections. Seems that is a performance tradeoff vs just using images with reflections already. Did you try that? Which iCarousel tag did you use? I built with 1.6.3 because it doesn't require ARC and built for ios with 3.0 deployment targets. There's 11 covwerflows in that build and I've got labels for the items working. It's a fun class for sure. Maybe try that build and see if you get the coverflow and coverflow2 and the TimeMachine/Inverted TimeMachine views bult into yours? Those are killer. maybe David can morph some code together. I used the Tapku coverflow for and app and liked it, but WAY to hard to add into projects. It's got other features I'm still exploring, but the Lockwood iCarousel is clean and gorgeous.

Very cool stuff!

Wow this looks fantastic! I, too, have some credits saved up just for this ;)

Awesome stuff Kittsy, are you able to make the button line up or rotate vertically on the portrait view too? That way getting the good visual effect similar to the landscape view.

Nice done!

Impressed Amazed Game changer Your plug in sets the bar a little higher for all of us I am standing in line waiting for this one to drop Mike

Beautiful! We are going to have the coolest apps!

Hi guys, Sorry I had to post and run, but you guys are on the other side of the world. And the missus was giving me grief at going to bed at half 9pm never mind 1 am. Belated responses @ Crown Solutions, from what I've seen padding isn't controlled, the examples in the projects rely on adding images to transparent backgrounds, this is also how reflection would be done. I want to make it as simple as possible for now, with image shown, label and action. The more complicated it is made the bigger risks of bugs. @MadRod If your looking at hiring somieone give me a PM, although the controlpanel isn't set, if you have a fixed amount of screens on a menu list then we can set up a basic control panel setup. @chris1 At the moment I have done this with ios, I am unaware of a framework for android plus I don't know much about it. At the moment I only doing ios plugin development. @kaybee I've seen vertical scrolling in an example, problem is it looks awful in landscape on the iphone and not as intuitive. But hey it can be done. @ATRAIN53 Duplicate plugin devleopment was always a risk, this won't be ready until January. (I might do a bit of freelance for it lol if anyone wants it over xmas) Tapku kit was horrific, everything looks cool in the kit but it gives no examples of how you would use it, e.g the calendar yay a calendar but doesn't show how to integrate into a database local storage. But I suppose proper programmers nknow this naturally. It must be the same kit as you as it does have time machine, and coverflow 2 I must have missed it off my list. If you've submitted the plugin without button taps, what does it do?

Future plans for this plugin, this has got the ability to be an ULTIMATE plugin. Now that I'm getting cocky with the code, what I want this to do is. Menu list, sexy coverflow tap images go to screens, flip transitions. Photo gallery, let's take the image gallery to another level, imagine our flickr galleries streaming to our coverflow, including photo uploader, with instagram rip off.(oh yeah I've been messing with that code aswell. Video and music walls, for some band app implementaion. Eventually a media player. I've got more ideas whirring through my head.

Wow! This looks great. Good work! Gives me something to look forward to in January, it's always a long month! Can't wait to get me hands on this. Should help make App approvals a breeze from a good looking perspective!

Mine is just a coverflow plug-in, pretty boring compared this this- But you inspired me and I tinkered around a bit last night and got the button taps working now :) So now I've got it launching another screen on tap, but it's the same screen. I'd love some freelance work to see how you construct and connect the taps to specific BT menu items. I've got a coupe of approaches I plan to try, but you know how many hours of testing/tweeking that's gonna be. Maybe we can trade some code here? I was still wiring it up to the control panel, but figured I'd stuff it in the que while I tidied it up. Getting that control panel screen to work and also LOOK right so it's easy to manage the plug-in options thru the CP is almost as much work as coding these things. totally agree on Tapku. Wish I could have the hours I've spent working with that back. Video Wall = awesome idea!!!

ATRAIN your right the control panel is the biggest pain in the arse, well for the people creating the plugins it is lol. My next atsk to finish this plugin is to figure out nsmutable arrays to hold everything I want and need and hopefully get a little advice off David.

I wonder if the new UICollectionView will be a help in implementing these "collections of things"? Can you try to also show a tab bar at the bottom? That is the real test of how "portable" the plugin can be. Can it be hosted inside another View Controller, such as the BT Tabbar. Awesome progress -- congratulations! :-)

it works with a tab bar already, yes it can be hosted within other view controllers.. UIcollectionview??? ha ha more reading lol

@Kittsy it is not so hard to fix NSMutableArray . It took me one week and little help from Danny. I have send in one plugin with 4 NSMutableArray this is connected to CP. if you use NSMutableArray in your Xcode project you have to use Childitems in your Json file. I copy code from Quiz plugin to make my Random Quote plugin. A hot tip change from NO to YES "hasChildItems" in your config text file you have from plugin created tool.

^ great tip Mac, I discovered that 'haschilditems' last night before i packed it in. Adding it to my code now. That is exactly what I do as well - look at other code and pick the chunks I need. i should check that thread you had going with the array... I was sifting thru the simple menu and crowns circlemenu for tips to build that array. I'd love to be able to re-order the items too thru the control panel. I believe there is a Q & A today with David? Yesterday I submitted this exact question to him in hopes maybe he would tackle it today? eager students here wanting to see an example of build a menu list with child items in an array in case you're checking in David.....

yeah this is what I need, the mutable array and the control panel linking, keep breaking the php file, arrrghhhhh so near yet so far. I only want screen name, transition, loadscreen and image

great question @kittsy, couldn't get my mic working for a bit and didn't want to take up David's time with us chatting! But it sounds like we're both gonna send some code over to David and have him take a look. I don't have any more time today to tear into it, but I think I might be pretty close after listening to David. FWIW, you've got a much better implementation and vision for this iCarousel class than me. Screen loading on Image taps, that's just awesome. We definately need to be able to access the ios screen transitions too on these. I'd rather see yours on the market, so no worries here. We all want quality stuff and happy to work together to make it happen :) and thanks David, drive safely and enjoy SD!

cool mate, lets just keep plugin away no pun intended. The uses of this framework is endless my mind is overflowing with ideas for it. Just the connecting the arrays to the control panel, but it;s not just links to screens, we could develop our own pandora style music apps.

SLICK!

forgot to post this for you - I was gonna ask if you had seen this thread? https://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?tid=61A19811BADC9373C0AC264&command=isSearching&currentPage=1&topicTitle=JSON&createdBy=&repliedBy=&minViews=-1&maxViews=-1&minReplies=-1&maxReplies=-1&forumCategory= That was really the "A Ha" momment for me how to connect my code to the CP.

yeah I read that when I started doing the plugins, it's just the child items, I can't seem to get to work in the control panel. some of my plugins have about 40 boxes lol. It's all a massive learning curve

Amazing. That is some real eye candy. Can't wait to start making ios apps after new year and this just makes it even more to look forward to. Great stuff indeed!

@kittsy, I think I know what you need. The child items are not edited in the index.php file. I believe they are in the Item_properties file.

^ Bingo! I had been digging around in that file but apparently not looking at a good example because you're right - i see some JSON values in there to manipulate now. Time to download some manu plug-ins and start examining closer! Can't beat this colloborative approach to developing these plug-ins. Thanks Susan!

Its funny, because to make plugins you have to work in iOS, Android, as well as PHP and Javascript! So there is a bit of a learning curve.

Very beautiful plugin! I'm waiting too! Nice work Kittsy! cheers DryFrog

^ don't forget plain old HTML too Susan! steep curve and easy to drop right off the edge. before David made that Custom Plug-in creator it was even more challenging!