CB graphic appearance - accomplising a retro CB radio feel

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CB graphic appearance - accomplising a retro CB radio feel

Postby gunnar » September 19th, 2009, 2:29 pm

The CB UI Panel shall appear both when transmitting voice and when listening to a channel.
The UI needs to contain authentic looking elements of a real world CB radio unit to give the user a kind of attractive "Retro" feel during use. For this purpose the project have purchased one of the most traditionally looking CB radios that exists;
a "Cobra 29 LTD Classic", a 40-Channel Base CB Radio.
Image.
I got this one for 45 US dollars + ship from a canadian seller on Ebay.
It is going to serve as model for graphically mimicking certain elements of its control panel (channel LD display, field strength meter and some knobs. Close up potos will be turned into UI graphics. Once done this radio has ended its model career and might possibly be used in some later promotion situation, representing the typical CB radio in an illustration.

The application has good realtime access to the microphone audio stream and this shall show in the form of a Speech progress bar in the UI that runs while the TALK button remains pressed. The progress bar shall show two bars side by side. One bar shows the progress of speech data entering its buffer and the second bar shows the upload progress, all occurring at the same time. There should be a certain fixed time limit for speech input, suggested is 5 seconds but needs evaluation.
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Re: CB graphic appearance - accomplising a retro CB radio feel

Postby gunnar » October 3rd, 2009, 6:16 pm

The communication radio rig is on its way to Sweden. It'll be fun to study. I will use it to mimic the Channel LED Display and the Signal Strength Meter, two distinct ingredients in the retro/realism UI styling.
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