hi tim again On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 17:37 +0200, Tim Boykett wrote: > Hi Roman, > > Okay, I had contemplated this and though that it must be possible > to do this easier. But No! This seems somehow like a hack,
hack or not, i think there is no other way, unless there are plans for something like a [pix_text]. > I am using OSX so there is currently some problem with > GEM and fonts and PD and...hmm... so it remains undoable > anyway :-> afaik, the work on solving these problems is in progress (if not already solved yet). try the newest auto builds > But thanks: I will simply build a few simple graphical objects > to transfer the information, then use pix_snap to get images for > recording. Thank you muchly! your welcome! roman > Tim > > On 10/05/2007, at 4:34 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 15:55 +0200, Tim Boykett wrote: > >> > >> Hello List, > >> > >> is there a way to get text into a pix chain? > >> > >> my little "thing to do" is: a camera, some extra information > >> into the camera stream (the text that I need), and record it > >> using pix_record. > >> > >> Or is there a better solution? > > > > don't know, if there are various solutions, but you can convert the > > framebuffer into a pix again using [pix_snap]. either you can grab > > both > > together, the video and the text, so that you display the text already > > upon the video, or you could grab the text separately (in a free > > area of > > the gemwin) and use [pix_mix] to merge the text-pix and the video > > afterwards. the former is possibly simpler to implement, but since you > > are applying a pix as texture in order to display it in opengl and > > then > > converting it back to a pix again, this might introduce interpolation > > artefacts. > > however, if you have alltogether in one pix, you can simply record it > > using [pix_record]. > > > > roman > > > > > >> Cheers, > >> > >> tim > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> PD-list@iem.at mailing list > >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ > >> listinfo/pd-list > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http:// > > messenger.yahoo.de > > > ___________________________________________________________ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list