On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Lazzaro N. Ciccolella wrote:
exists an object that simply can show one single bitmap within a patch of PD (like a bgimage, or better, like a pict-button)? for display images it is necessary to install a big lib as gem or exists a single external? pidip...? (apologize, pidip is a big video manipulation library, I meant to say gripd instead) GrIPD can make those ?
Afaik the only video plugin that allows to embed video in a patch is GridFlow, and that's a very experimental feature not ready for consumption (too many bugs... rarely ever works... and then only on Linux). And GridFlow is a big library, too. Here's a screenshot:
http://artengine.ca/gridflow/gallery/peephole3.png
For portability I plan to also support displaying into Tk, instead of just embedding a [@out x11] window inside of a patch. It would be slower but at least it would work everywhere. That would use the Tk command
image create photo $name -file $filename
where $name is a Tk symbol of your choice (but watch out for name canflicts) and $filename is the name of a file in .gif or .ppm or .xbm format; and it would then use it like
# as in the IMPD button bar button .hello -image $name or # as in a future version of GridFlow .$window.c create image $x $y -anchor nw -image $name -tag $tag
which is stuff you can either script in Tcl directly, or access from TOXY. Consult the Tcl/Tk manuals for more information.
Mathieu Bouchard http://artengine.ca/matju