Our project is a standalone application that can be included in or called on by other applications to display subtitles. Relevant functionalities of the application include displaying a window, displaying subtitle text, communicating with the host application, accepting multiple subtitle formats, and providing custom API for the host application.

At this point in time, users must build the program themselves. Clone the repo and build in Visual Studio using the provided solution file. Within your own application, execute the previously built executable, providing a port number. Then, open a TCP socket and send a JSON message using our API. For an example of this in action, build the solution and run the TkinterExample project provided within the solution.

Example (Python):

args = ['path\\to\\Subtitle-Display-Tool.exe', '9999']
subprocess.Popen(args)

• Program currently successfully creates a window which displays text. The window is transparent, has no surrounding titlebar/decorations, is always drawn in the foreground, and passes inputs through to windows behind it.

• Program was updated to display multiple windows; windows are stored in a vector which can be modified in the main loop. An Input Manager class has been added to handle opening and listening on a port for messages from the Host app. Program accepts a port number through the command line and listens on that port. Currently only accepts a single message, with plans to properly handle listening over the lifetime of the program by Milestone 3. Now offer a JSON API which allows the Host app to send just a string or optionally specify styling information. Subtitle windows support custom RGBA font color and background color, font face, font size, and window lifetimes.

• Added automatic generation and deployment of Doxygen documentation to GitHub Pages. Added testing project to solution, is separate from but references main project's obj files. Can be built and run separately from the main project. Added text outlines with customizable colors and sizes and drop shadows with customizable colors and offsets. Added parsing support for these new additions. Added parsing support for .vtt files.
• Still to be added: .srt, .ssa, continuous communication via TCP to allow for updates to Host window information, such as the Host window moving or pausing.

• Added the aforementioned delayed persistent TCP communication. New implementation allows multiple connections and each connection persists until the Host app closes it. Added a new mode to the API to allow for sending Host window information (size, position) to update where the subtitles are drawn. Added support for .srt and .ssa/.ass files, extracting the dialogue and timing information from each to create the appropriate subtitles.