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This is a first draft See interface mock up for version 2 (or 1a as 1 will probably never be released). I plan to have this version out by October this year, and it will replace the current one. I started talking with the IBS (NIV), ABS (NASB) and ESV people about bible text licensing as well.

Missing from the mock up are:
- tool bars (we'd need a few more of them)
- a browser for songs and bible verse text (I'm thinking a mini iTunes library type window though, allowing for song categories etc)
- a lot of the buttons in the current version
- Next slide window
- Song editor window

Of course, there are a few major obstacles to this version existing like:
- apple doesn't expose the interface for their "dashboard" controls like in motion
- I don't know how to do the selected slide editor
- I don't know how to make the big iconified song list thing

I think I'm deciding that from now on, See will only support 10.4 and future versions of the OS.

Features I'm thinking will be there beyond what we have now are:
- grouping of slides
- basic manual layout of slides (text boxes, images and movies on a slide)
 (one down side is that the easiest implementation of this will not allow you to have multiple text styles for one text box)
- automatic layout of slides (ie image takes whole slide, text takes whole slide, movie takes whole slide as per now)
- integrated bible
- songs including
 - multiple verse orders
 - which allows multiple versions of the words/verses in a single song
- integrated slideshow with ken burns effect and cross disolves with
 - automatic advance timing
 - manual click timing
- control of movie playback including
 - start on fire or
 - start on push button
 - pause
 - stop (and rewind)
- icons of slides
- choice of icon size (big icons or small icons, as in mail)
- move logo slide, black slide and colour bars slide buttons to the current slide window
- 16:9 playback support
- better flash playback support (perhaps some sort of JS interface that allows you to fire content into a flash slide)

I'm still thinking about using an HTML display engine for most things because it means we can use WebKit to do playback - which is much better for supporting flash, quicktime and the dynamic layout stuff.