Hi João, I used [text3d] in GEM for my "Typing Hero" piece at the last PdCon. It was a piece for 3 networked laptop players to type text read in from a text file to play Bach 3-part inventions. I found that [text3d] did everything I needed and worked as expected for all the issues you mention, except that handling long texts was an issue. Here's a video from that night:
https://youtu.be/IACzW39PnW8 On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 5:03 PM, Jack <j...@rybn.org> wrote: > Hello João, > > Le 28/02/2018 à 19:31, João Pais a écrit : > > Hello list, > > > > I was looking on the best way to display some texts which will be > > produced/improvised in realtime. These will be acessible either as a > > list, OSC, or on a file. > > > > I tried gem's 2dtext and [flatgui/entry], but they both don't work that > > well, as some or all of the following aren't possible: > > You mean [text2d] for the Gem object... In term of performance, I prefer > to use [text3d]... depending of what you need. > > > - centered text > > - some texts are long, so the paragraphs have to break at the end of a > word > > - black background, white font - font and size will be chosen later > > - fullscreen on a 2nd screen (to be projected) > > Everything here is doable with [text2d]/[text3d]. > > > > > I imagine the word sliptting and text centering can be calculated in Pd > > so that Gem displays it correctly, but I'm not sure I'll have the time > > for it. So trying another solution such as coordinating with Processing > > or similar would be an option, in case it's easier to implement. > > Centering text is by default with [text2d]/[text3d]. You can change this > with the message "justify". > To cut a sentence after a word when a certain amount of letter is > present is not very difficult using [list fromsymbol], [list prepend > 10], [list prepend string]/[list trim] (for text2d]/[text3d]). > > You can even change line spacing with the message "linedist" on recent Gem. > ++ > > Jack > > > > > > Are there any suggestions on how to tackle this? > > > > Best, > > > > jmmmp > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list > -- William Brent www.williambrent.com “Great minds flock together” Conflations: conversational idiom for the 21st century www.conflations.com
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