Hey James,
...you'll be happy to know that I've got an improved pdp2gem bridge working: I'll commit it to cvs after a few more things are ironed out...one thing you might want to do with the current one is not use the [pix_rgba] object (as is shown in help-pdp2gem.pd): it's incredibly slow, and not really necessary anymore...you can always use a blend message to get that alpha effect, anyway...
Well, that sounds promising. But first i'd like to tune into Gem and see how far I get with using only Gem.
...don't know what you mean by "Gem-graphics [mostly 1 px-lines]" and live video? Are you wanting to have each line (horiz. or vertical?) of the video as a seperate line? Or do you want to just draw lines over a video? If the latter, just map the video to a rectangle, then use [curve] or [curve3d] or whatever to draw in front: see their help files for more info...
What I meant is a separate layer of lines on top of the video. I use the rectangle for that right now. But i'll also look at the curve-ojects you just mentioned.
...uh, look in "Gem/help/gemwin.pd"...there is also "Gem/examples/02.advanced/15.GemWin.pd"
Well, my paths probably weren't set right. But i've them now.
...but, I don't think either of these address the "can't move the gemwindow" problem (outside of manually sending offset messages)...there is a trick to get it to work on osx: hold down the command button when you click on the window's title bar, and you'll be able to drag it around (also works for giving [gemmouse] input)...
Thanks for the tip.
Sara