Future Plan for PointLightLab
Development Roadmap
Development of PLL is on an as-needed basis. Work has been stalled on a major update to the feature set ( the fabled version 5) which is stable but unpolished. Currently I am maintaining version 4 and adding bug fixes to PLLPlayer and adding features to the Editor. My intention is to merge these changes with the V5 code base and move forward with the single version... however time is not on my side at the moment.
Another option is to move the whole project to an open source license and give others the option to contribute if they wish. This would involve a fairly major discussion and involves some unknowns about the various claims from some stakeholders. We shall see.
Features still to be added for v4.x.x
- Information on included files available within the editor interface ( Model files, audio track files etc)
- Visualisation of the stimuli within the editor (Some already done, more to come)
- Control over the inter-stimuli keystroke collection.
- Stair climbing parameters and parameter ranges(Threshold seeking)
Proposed Feature Additions
- Textured backgrounds for the stimuli ( Low priority)
- 3D Spatial Sound events (Unneeded at the moment )
- Animation control over text layers including display time (Low priority)
- Simple graphic primitives as drawing layers (Unneeded at the moment )
- Display a bitmap as part of the stimuli (Low priority )
- User configurable splash screen on the player (Unneeded at the moment may be scrapped)
Current Feature Request List
| Request by | Priority | Description | Status |
| David | Medium | PLLEditor & PLLPlayer - Give weights to script blocks for randomised display. | Open |
| David | Medium | PLLEditor & PLLPlayer - Name/Label for each script block for display in the results file and editor. | Open |
| Rusty | Medium | PLLPlayer - Option to suppress the Inter stimuli audio cue. | Open |
| Rusty & Anna | Low | PLLEditor & PLLPlayer - Create a Scrambled model file ( 12 dots ) in no coherent pattern | Open |
| Duncan | Medium | PLLEditor - Add the remaining model tools from the previous model editor. (Scale, symmetry, Flip, translate, Scatter, interpolate frames etc) | Open |
| Anna | Low | PLLEditor - Build Automated Analysis macros for Excel | Open |
| Anna | Low | PLLPlayer - Play two script blocks before collecting a result | Open |
| Duncan | Medium | PLLEditor - Add audio track tools ( Add offset, speed ) | Open |
| Duncan | Medium | PLLEditor - Script block visualiser will display the play order of the script blocks and the inter stimuli events as well as showing the effect of the various layers in a script block. | Open |
| Duncan | Medium | PLLEditor - Script editing - Clone Selected layer or dot tool. This will be a quick way to clone and add a selected script element. This will be available from a button on the script editing interface. | Open |
| Duncan | Low | PLLEditor - Audiotrack visual editor - add an animation speed multiplier to the Sync to model file tools. | Open |
| Duncan | Medium | PLLEditor - Add bulk Model dots in one operation. | Open |
| Manu | Medium | PLLPlayer - Apply the clipping region to the pattern as well as the Noise field. - This has some complicated questions that need to be answered about looping patterns, but can be done. | Open |
| Manu, Anna, Davey | Medium | PLLPlayer - Two interval forced choice option. This feature has had multiple requests. | Open (Planned for the next major change to the Script File format) |
| Manu, Anna, Ricky | High | PLLPlayer - Clean up the method used to define the translation vector. Current system is confusing and potentially buggy. | Open |
| Manu | Low | PLLPlayer - Specify a coordinate system with a fixed range of 0-100. This is an interesting idea but currently is not planned to be implemented. It would require further investigation to establish feasibility. | Suspended |
| Manu | Medium | PLLPlayer - Provision of an Interstimuli Interval with a fixed time frame plus a random addition. (Stimuli Onset Asychronicity?) | Open (Planned for next major change to the script file format) |
| Rusty | Medium | PLLPlayer - Control over the inter stimuli audio cue. | Open(Planned for next change to the script file format) |
| Duncan | High | PLLPlayer - Read path for default config file from registry. | Open |
Current Bug List
| Priority | Description | Comments | Status |
| Low | PLLPlayer Deleting Tone.wav sends PLLPlayer into some sort of weird installation routine |
This is part of the installation system verifying that all the files from the distribution are in place before running. This only happens with the PLLPLayer. Unsure if this should be a bug yet. This is the result of Microsoft Installer self-healing feature. This needs to be tidied up and documented. |
Verified - awaiting action |
| High | PLLPlayer - Results file - Script block description isn't showing correct Info | Needs more details to verify | Unverified |
| High | PLLManual - Completely out of date | Improved in v4.0.12 More to be done | |
| High | PLLWebsite - Needs updating | Improved in v4.0.12 More to be done | |
| Low | PLLEditor - Audio track editor shows first model frame when model file is not loaded | Untidy but is it a problem? Still under development | Unresolved |
| Medium | PLLPlayer - Exception message for bad script layer does not mention which script layer has caused the exception | To be resolved when parser is changed next. | Open |
| Low | PLLEditor - Sometimes does not appear in the task bar. | Still trying to pin down why this happens. | Open |
| Medium | PLLEditor - Tree view does not clear if a file fails to load | Editor is being re-written. | No longer an issue |
| High | PLLPlayer - Crashes if inconsistent number of model dots in the script file compared to the model file specified. | Open | |
| Medium | PLLEditor- Experiment Editor reports an error when opening the first experiment file. Works fine for all subsequent openings. | Open | |
| Medium | Paths in the Config file not being fixed is the software is installed in a non-standard directory or has different localised language. | This should be fixed in the installer via a script or patch. | Open in v4.5.5 |