Starboard - Starcraft 2 Scoreboard Display

Starboard is a scoreboard, designed by Ascend, meant for professional Starcraft 2 broadcasting. Features player name, color, race, and score displays with a subbar showing optional stream/match information.

Coding Style

Main development is done with Visual Studio 2010 (Express should be supported due to no cross-language necessity). Documentation style is done compliant to StyleCop and overall style uses the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) constructs.

As-is, the application runs as a single executable, no installation required, and has a requirement of .NET 4.0 Client Profile, available as a free download from Microsoft.

Hotkeys

As of version 0.4, you can click on the scoreboard and press a hotkey to make an instant change. The following are the supported hotkeys:

• Ctrl+Hotkey = Player 1

• Alt+Hotkey = Player 2

• PTZR - Change race to Protoss, Terran, Zerg, Random

• 1-8 - Change player color to choices 1-8, as shown on the main setup.

• +/- - Increment/Decrement player's score by 1.

Changes

v0.5.0:

• Fixed crash when using invalid timer values.
• Added the ability to enable transparency for the scoreboard.
• Added the ability to customize the opacity of the scoreboard.
• Scores cannot be less than 0.
• Added fade-in and fade-out effects for when transparency is enabled.

v0.4.2:

• Fixed the 1-click buttons not working properly.

v0.4.1:

• Fixed not being able to minimize.
• Added icon

v0.4:

• Added 1-click selections for race and player color
• You can now shrink the subbar and announcement sections
• Setup window will auto-size to contents.
• Added hotkeys for player race, color, and score.

v0.3.1:

• Fixed crash when deleting single subbar or announcement messages.

v0.3:

• User can change (or remove) announcement and subbar text.
• User can customize the number of messages.
• Announcement messages can now rotate similar to subbar text.

v0.2:

• Scoreboard colors now animate between states
• Added build number to options screen.
• Added the ability to add announcement text over the scoreboard
• Added the ability to resize the scoreboard using a slider.
• Added the ability to hide the subbar to center the score.

v0.1:

• Initial Release