Re: [PD] Google SoC: call for mentors and project ideas

2008-03-20 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Chuckk Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Georg Holzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo! I'd like to apply for some Mentos. I like mixed fruit or grape. As for Pd, I can't think of something major enough to call

Re: [PD] Alternate Controllers

2008-03-20 Thread Winfried Ritsch
dont forget the algopic: https://algo.mur.at/data/projekte/algopic/ for Autoklavierspieler ;-) used serial-interface for better timing, this was the reason for (comport - external). mfg winfried PS: just designing a new one with ethernet, since timing is criticalm, open hardware of course.

[PD] A Reminder: A Call for works / Appel d’ oeuvres - Canadian 60x60 (31 March)

2008-03-20 Thread Eldad Tsabary
A Reminder: A Call for works / Appel d’oeuvres - Canadian 60x60 (31 March) (Une version française est disponible ici: http://60x60.yaeldad.com/fra.htm) Hello and apologies for any cross-postings Call for Works for the first Canadian 60x60 Project (2008) (31 March deadline postmarked) Vox

[PD] Why use Lua instead of PHP in my case ?

2008-03-20 Thread Jack
Hello Claude and Frank, Hello list, I understand that Lua seems powerful but I would like to know if in my case it's more interesting to use Lua instead of PHP. My work consists in recovering datas from the Web and manipulate strings with PHP. Then to store this datas in MySQL database.

Re: [PD] Guitar Heroes controller

2008-03-20 Thread James Rojsirivat
An update: I was able to get the Guitar Heroes controller to work under OS X. From the post on Joystiq, they couldn't get the Xbox X-plorer controller that comes with the PC/Mac version to work under OS X either. They were using it with Fret on Fire. OS X sees the device but it will not work.

Re: [PD] Alternate Controllers

2008-03-20 Thread James Rojsirivat
An easy controller you can make is a Power Glove like kind of thing. When I studied with Laetitia Sonami at the San Francisco Art Institute back in the late 90's, she was using her Lady Glove. It was (and is) essentially a glove with small trigger buttons, bend sensors, and tilt sensors. And if

[PD] Fw: Alternate Controllers

2008-03-20 Thread James Rojsirivat
Sorry. It was STEIM who helped her with the Lady's Glove. An easy controller you can make is a Power Glove like kind of thing. When I studied with Laetitia Sonami at the San Francisco Art Institute back in the late 90's, she was using her Lady Glove. It was (and is) essentially a glove with

Re: [PD] Why use Lua instead of PHP in my case ?

2008-03-20 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Jack hat gesagt: // Jack wrote: My work consists in recovering datas from the Web and manipulate strings with PHP. Then to store this datas in MySQL database. After what i use another PHP/MySQL script and send datas to PD. Can you give me 3 goods reasons tu use Lua instead of PHP

Re: [PD] Why use Lua instead of PHP in my case ?

2008-03-20 Thread Jack
Le 20 mars 08 à 15:43, Frank Barknecht a écrit : Hallo, Jack hat gesagt: // Jack wrote: My work consists in recovering datas from the Web and manipulate strings with PHP. Then to store this datas in MySQL database. After what i use another PHP/MySQL script and send datas to PD. Can you

Re: [PD] Why use Lua instead of PHP in my case ?

2008-03-20 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Jack hat gesagt: // Jack wrote: Le 20 mars 08 à 15:43, Frank Barknecht a écrit : I don't know of an external which adds PHP support inside of Pd. If you are talking about which programming language to choose outside of Pd: I'd choose whatever you feel most comfortable with. Of course

Re: [PD] Why use Lua instead of PHP in my case ?

2008-03-20 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Jack hat gesagt: // Jack wrote: Le 20 mars 08 à 15:43, Frank Barknecht a écrit : I don't know of an external which adds PHP support inside of Pd. If you are talking about which programming language to choose outside of

Re: [PD] Why use Lua instead of PHP in my case ?

2008-03-20 Thread Jack
Thanx Frank for this explanation. I will see for the Kepler project as soon as possible, after the Lua base :). ++ Jack Le 20 mars 08 à 16:55, Frank Barknecht a écrit : Hallo, Jack hat gesagt: // Jack wrote: Le 20 mars 08 à 15:43, Frank Barknecht a écrit : I don't know of an external

Re: [PD] Why use Lua instead of PHP in my case ?

2008-03-20 Thread Andrew Turley
I think the latency involved in writing data to and from the database will probably prove a much larger bottleneck than the speed of the language that you use, at least if you're trying to read the web pages and use the data in Pd in real-time. andy On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Frank

Re: [PD] Why use Lua instead of PHP in my case ?

2008-03-20 Thread marius schebella
it is not only a choice between lua and php. I had good experiences in the past with the python external, but that was before I discovered lua. for another project I am now starting to use pdj (java external), because I have to connect to a java api backend via function calls. I think both are

Re: [PD] Google SoC: call for mentors and project ideas

2008-03-20 Thread marius schebella
yes. plus copy and paste of text into pd patches. just select objects in pd and when you paste them into an email they will appear as pd code. vice versa, when you select and copy text from an email then copy should paste pd objects into the patch. (or new from clipboard...) marius. Daniel

Re: [PD] Google SoC: call for mentors and project ideas

2008-03-20 Thread marius schebella
do you think of something like an html-editor where you can switch between html view and code view? I think that is a great idea!! maybe even side by side! would something like this be coded in tcl/tk? marius. Chuckk Hubbard wrote: On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Chuckk Hubbard [EMAIL

Re: [PD] Google SoC: call for mentors and project ideas

2008-03-20 Thread Daniel Wilcox
So some sort of copy as text and paste from text that handles the object - text stuff? On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:06 PM, marius schebella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes. plus copy and paste of text into pd patches. just select objects in pd and when you paste them into an email they will

Re: [PD] Google SoC: call for mentors and project ideas

2008-03-20 Thread Steffen Juul
On 20/03/2008, at 18.52, Daniel Wilcox wrote: I'd like to see drag and drop of pd patches from an OS file browser onto pd to open them. I'm sure you'r concerned with a specific or any OS not just an OS, since it works on Mac OS X. Maybe it's work for the desktop manager not the OS? -

Re: [PD] Google SoC: call for mentors and project ideas

2008-03-20 Thread marius schebella
well when you copy an object then you have something like #X obj 105 111 inlet; in your clipboard. and if you copy this into any other program it will be insterted as a line of text, but in pd it should be inserted as objects. don't know if that is easy. marius. Daniel Wilcox wrote: So some

Re: [PD] HID: Am I doing this right?

2008-03-20 Thread marius schebella
Hi, you can use only [hid] and send [open 0( message before you poll then a [1( message to start polling. device 0 is the keyboard on osx (at least I think this is always the case, not sure, you can use print to get a list of devices.) then go with route and select, bla bla. there seems to be a

Re: [PD] HID: Am I doing this right?

2008-03-20 Thread Mike McGonagle
Thanks, Marius it works now for me... guess I was thinking that the subpatch [keyboard] was specifically related to using the keyboard... Mike On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:22 PM, marius schebella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, you can use only [hid] and send [open 0( message before you poll

Re: [PD] HID: Am I doing this right?

2008-03-20 Thread Andrew Turley
I don't know exactly what you're trying to do, but it might just be easier to use [key], [keyup] and [keyname]. But if you do want to use [hid], once you have the device open you have to send a [1( to start polling. You might want to just hook a [print] object to the output to see what kind of

[PD] pix_yuv get blue spots with pix_buffer

2008-03-20 Thread Peter Forde
I'm using PD 0.38.4 on windows XP. I am storing a large amount of images in pix_buffer from a camera input. When I keep them in rgba the computer will not cope with it all and crashes so YUV seems to be the best solution and it works. Unfotunately when I change it to yuv through

Re: [PD] HID: Am I doing this right?

2008-03-20 Thread marius schebella
hid, key, keyup, keyname are not compatible on the three OS. hid for example does not work on win afaik. otoh key on osx will stop working when you have a gemwin in the focus (which seems to be no problem on windows). marius. Andrew Turley wrote: I don't know exactly what you're trying to do,

Re: [PD] HID: Am I doing this right?

2008-03-20 Thread Mike McGonagle
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Andrew Turley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know exactly what you're trying to do, but it might just be easier to use [key], [keyup] and [keyname]. Well, it was actually more of a learning experiment in trying to deal with [hid] objects. Eventually, I would

Re: [PD] HID: Am I doing this right?

2008-03-20 Thread Mike McGonagle
In playing with [hid] a bit more, it appears that you can have it track when multiple keys are down. Just as a test, I pressed and held down keys, and once I get to the sixth key, no matter what key I pressed it would output 'key_1 1' for that key, and any subsequent keys that are pressed are not

Re: [PD] Google SoC: call for mentors and project ideas

2008-03-20 Thread Daniel Wilcox
Well, I'm not on OSX, I'm on Ubuntu and I cannot drag a .pd file from the Nautilus file browser in Gnome onto any pd window. I do not really know what is at fault, but as I do this for numerous other applications and file types, I assume its some missing functionality in the pd gui. Correct me if

Re: [PD] Google SoC: call for mentors and project ideas

2008-03-20 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
That's been implemented using tkdnd, I think the patch even is included in pd-vanilla. You just need to install tkdnd. It would be great if someone got tkdnd built into Pd-extended (hint, hint). I don't think it would be very hard. On Mac OS X, you can drop pd files on the App icon

[PD] Capturing data to file

2008-03-20 Thread nicholas ward
Hi, Ive been using cyclone/coll to capture data and write it to file but the patch stops responding after about 2 minutes. My data is 4 streams at 500 samples a second. Has anyone any better ways of doing this? Im wondering should I be writing to tables instead perhaps? In which case how

Re: [PD] Capturing data to file

2008-03-20 Thread marius schebella
hi, [;tablename write filename.txt( will write the content of a table into a textfile. it is strange that coll stops working, but it looks like there is a limit after 24 entries? how much do you want to record? marius. nicholas ward wrote: Hi, Ive been using cyclone/coll to capture data

Re: [PD] Capturing data to file

2008-03-20 Thread nicholas ward
Hi Andy, Thanks for that I'll have a look in a sec. Ive opened activity monitor here and as i capture data I can see the cpu for my patch going up a percent every second or so. If i send coll the write to file message it drops back down to 15%. Evidently something is getting more and more

Re: [PD] PD crashes on mac OSX with Jack

2008-03-20 Thread bsoisoi
You'll need a newer build of pd-extended. Try this one and let us know of your results: http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/2008-02-22/Pd-0.40.3-extended-20080222-macosx104-i386.dmg Cheers, ~Brandon On Mar 20, 2008, at 7:09 PM, pzuspann wrote: I recently installed JackOSX and PD

[PD] I'm stuck in a corner, please help! RE: [delta~] object

2008-03-20 Thread Andy Farnell
I have a problem, that is partly of my own making and need to air this on the list for advice. This isn't a rant, just a frustrating situation. As some of you know I have been working on a textbook for Pd for some time. In the final stages and adding the practical exercises and the problem is

[PD] Fwd: I'm stuck in a corner, please help! RE: [delta~] object

2008-03-20 Thread Mike McGonagle
-- Forwarded message -- From: Mike McGonagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 7:18 PM Subject: Re: [PD] I'm stuck in a corner, please help! RE: [delta~] object To: Andy Farnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy, If it is a book about PD, why not add a tutorial for writing

Re: [PD] I'm stuck in a corner, please help! RE: [delta~] object

2008-03-20 Thread Charles Henry
I'd say, you can't go wrong with fexpr~. Works for any kind of discrete time difference equations has many amazing /creative uses. Chuck On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Andy Farnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem, that is partly of my own making and need to air this on the

Re: [PD] I'm stuck in a corner, please help! RE: [delta~] object

2008-03-20 Thread Andy Farnell
Thanks guys, Marius and Charles, you've both suggested using [fexpr~] and I think I might reconsider introducing this object. So far the aim has been to keep the object set very small and show how things are built from primitives, but all said this makes a good example of where it can be a

Re: [PD] I'm stuck in a corner, please help! RE: [delta~] object

2008-03-20 Thread Andy Farnell
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:18:21 -0500 Mike McGonagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, if you are looking for a Proof Reader, I would be more than happy to offer my services... Mike, I'd certainly appreciate another set of eyes. Breaking up the text into sections for those with particular

Re: [PD] Google SoC: call for mentors and project ideas

2008-03-20 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
This is exactly what the tkdnd stuff does. The code is included in Pd to use tkdnd, but tkdnd is not included. So if tkdnd is included, then it'll work. .hc On Mar 20, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Daniel Wilcox wrote: Well, I'm not on OSX, I'm on Ubuntu and I cannot drag a .pd file from the

Re: [PD] Alternate Controllers

2008-03-20 Thread Chris McCormick
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 05:43:03PM -0500, Mike McGonagle wrote: Hello all, Over the past few weeks, I have been looking at building a controller for myself, but was curious what other sorts of things others are doing with alternate controllers. What controllers are you using? How are you using