bob gailer wrote:
Please start a new thread with a relevant topic rather than adding to
an existing thread.
seconded
hello all,
I am currently making a birthday prezzie for someone (deadline is
Thursday night). the basic idea is a wall of photos that you can move
about to view different ones using a joystick and press the joystick
button to hear a roughly five second commentary that is individual for
each photo. I currently have a wall of photos that you can navigate
using the wasd keys. all help in creating the final product in time
would be appreciated and you would be mentioned in the credits by a
nickname (IE. cyberjacob). I am currently using the pygame library.
any more detail can be supplied including full source code,
thanks everyone, i need all the help I can get to finish this in time
please reply ASAP
thanks once again
cyberjacob
Personally I kinda doubt that anyone would tackle this for free.
Why can't you do it yourself? This shouldn't be a very big stretch if
you've already got it working for WASD.
Just use the joystick module of Pygame, and get the X axis movement, if
it's positive and larger than a certain threshold, move to the right,
and if it's negative and larger than the threshold, move left. As for
playing the sound, just use pygame.music() to stream it from disk, make
a new folder called "commentary" where each item has the same name as
the picture it's associated with.
So
root dir
images
foobar.jpg
foobaz.bmp
sounds
foobar.mp3
foobaz.mp3
then it's simple to just go "ok i'm currently at image "foobar.jpg". I
want to load a sound to play for it:
import os
soundfile = os.path.join("sounds", os.path.splitext(current_img)[0]+".mp3")
pygame.music.load(soundfile) # may not be correct function names
pygame.music.play()
So your main program will look like this (pseudocode warning!)
import os, pygame
init screen
#render wall
motion = 0 # how fast (in pixels) we shift the wall each frame.
speed = 2 # a multiplier for motion (i think joysticks report axis
position as float from 0 to 1, this allows you to scroll faster.)
thresh = 0.5
while 1:
pygame.clock.tick(60) #lock your framerate
#shift wall "motion" pixels in the x axis.
refresh screen.
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == JOYSTICKDOWN and event.button == BUTTONIWANT:
#obviously for this to work must know current image. should
not be hard to do.
soundfile = os.path.join("sounds",
os.path.splitext(current_img)[0]+".mp3")
pygame.music.stop()
pygame.music.load(soundfile) # may not be correct function names
pygame.music.play()
elif event.type == JOYSTICKMOTION:
x = get_x_axis_of_joystick()
if abs(x) > thresh:
motion = x * speed
pygame.music.stop() # unless you want commentary to keep
playing while they scroll.
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