Hi all!
I'd like to make a simple audio program for very young kids, something to train them at identitying sounds (like "meow!" --> cat). The audio part won't be a problem, but i not sure what i can do graphically with Pd (i ve used it for sounds only). For now i just need a way to embed images in my patch, so that the kids can click on the right animal when they hear it. As far as i know GEM is not what i'm looking for since everything is displayed in another window (and there can be more than one apparently). All i need is just a simple control with a texture, or just a canvas with an image in it. Is this possible at all in Pd? Any hint?
Pierre
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 14:32 +0100, Pierre Massat wrote:
Hi all!
I'd like to make a simple audio program for very young kids, something to train them at identitying sounds (like "meow!" --> cat). The audio part won't be a problem, but i not sure what i can do graphically with Pd (i ve used it for sounds only). For now i just need a way to embed images in my patch, so that the kids can click on the right animal when they hear it. As far as i know GEM is not what i'm looking for since everything is displayed in another window (and there can be more than one apparently). All i need is just a simple control with a texture, or just a canvas with an image in it. Is this possible at all in Pd? Any hint?
There is [ggee/image] which can display .gif .ppm and .pgm images. You could cover some iemgui object with [image] in order to make it 'clickable'.
Personally, I wouldn't abandon the Gem idea too quickly, since with Gem you could have only one window in fullscreen mode, with even more control, since it grabs mouse and keyboard events makeing it less likely to accidently switch window or into editmode or trigger any other pd shortcut. Also you have more freedom in the graphical design and behavioural decisions. For instance, you could animate the displayed objects when clicked.
Roman
Hi all!
I'd like to make a simple audio program for very young kids, something to train them at identitying sounds (like "meow!" --> cat). The audio part won't be a problem, but i not sure what i can do graphically with Pd (i ve used it for sounds only). For now i just need a way to embed images in my patch, so that the kids can click on the right animal when they hear it. As far as i know GEM is not what i'm looking for since everything is displayed in another window (and there can be more than one apparently). All i need is just a simple control with a texture, or just a canvas with an image in it. Is this possible at all in Pd? Any hint?
[image <myimage>.gif] gr, Tim
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Thank you both for your replies. I didn't know about the [image] object, it's pretty handy. @Roman : I understand that GEM would be a good idea, but i know nothing about it. For now I think i'll just develop something very simple, sample being played randomly and a very simple GUI (bangs behind images will do). But GEM looks great anyway, I'll take a closer look sometime soon.
Pierre
2010/3/14 info@timvets.net
Hi all!
I'd like to make a simple audio program for very young kids, something to train them at identitying sounds (like "meow!" --> cat). The audio part won't be a problem, but i not sure what i can do graphically with Pd (i
ve
used it for sounds only). For now i just need a way to embed images in my patch, so that the kids can click on the right animal when they hear it. As far as i know GEM is not what i'm looking for since everything is displayed in another window (and there can be more than one apparently). All i need is just a simple control with a texture, or just a canvas with an image in it. Is this possible at all in Pd? Any hint?
[image <myimage>.gif] gr, Tim
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