Would be great to build out an API, to allow the community to create custom Proclaim add ons. Would certainly allow faster development, and a wide variety of options!
Most valuable thing which could be adds initially, enabling other features to be added, is GET commands. For example: What type of item is the current/next slide. On Air status. Also useful is API commands sent on particular slides/actions a bit like MIDI currently is. This can allow people to integrate with video gear controls, which will be useful for a large majority of churches.
Agree with @James Wright about how valuable it would be to get more status information from Proclaim, and on greater flexibility of outgoing integrations from Proclaim to other packages.
Would also be really interested to know what sorts of custom Proclaim add-ins @Robert Weir is envisaging.
@James Wright @Richard Huss, Love that. Based on previous feedback, and extending the above, extensibility would be the end goal.
Something like the following:
A fuller public API (or SDK/extension framework with read/write access, events/webhooks, authentication, and documentation) could unlock massive value. Innovation could increase exponentially with community solutions.
Im sure there is a lot more that people could come up with with all the varied community needs.
Gosh, that is… a wide-ranging vision.
Honestly, for me personally, the keys are real-time status & event stuff, which is pretty essential. The ability to create custom "scene" types to supplement the existing outgoing MIDI functionality would be extremely welcome.
I hadn't thought as widely as you have, though (as the users of a ChMS whose planning module doesn't integrate with Proclaim!) the ability to read/write service plans programmatically would open up some fascinating possibilities.
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Ability to change font characteristics like bold, italic, underline in Slide Canvas. Currently, when you click on the dropdown box it does not have any other options other than the option that is currently selected.
I would like a way to know the actual size of text that has been adjusted to fit.
The autosizing of fonts has advantages and disadvantages. An option to disable auto-scaling of fonts would be helpful, I believe, for many.
It's sometimes really hard to tell that Proclaim shrunk a font-size slightly to fit a long string, and it's hard to figure out which line is causing the slight shrinkage (especially since the Proclaim font and the slide font may not have the same character widths or kerning). Even if the overflow warning returned, it never…
Currently font size is controlled by both preserving line breaks of lyric and fitting lines to slide. Great. A warning will display when a line is excessive and just that is shrunk. But if it a line is slightly too long font size of whole song is adjusted without warning. For me this is a poor user experience because I’d…
