[PD] reverse kickstarter update: omgponies

[Jonathan Wilkes]

On 08/22/2013 09:06 AM, João Pais wrote:
> that is impressive. is the new version already somewhere to be tested?

I'll try to post a build later today, or tomorrow.

-Jonathan

>
>     Hi list,
>
>     I've got some updates to [canvasinfo], [pdinfo], and [classinfo]
>     that I'll put in a demo build either tomorrow or the next day.
>
>     I also added a new data structure class with two creators:
>     [drawimage] - draw an image on a canvas
>     [drawsprite] - draw a sprite on a canvas
>
>     The [drawsprite] object takes the name of a directory containing
>     an image sequence and
>     loads the images into tcl/tk memory when the object gets created. 
>     A ds float field can then be
>     associated with that image so that when you change its value it
>     jumps to that image in the
>     sequence.  I used the code from [drawnumber], so you can even
>     animate the sprite by clicking
>     and dragging on the image.
>
>     Since all the images are preloaded into tcl/tk, animating them is
>     fairly straightforward-- tk just
>     clears the old image and copies the new one from one of the images
>     it has in memory.
>
>     Of course the upshot is fairly obvious-- we can finally have
>     ponies running around inside Pure
>     Data patches.
>
>     E.g., thanks to this:
>     http://friendshipismagic.smackjeeves.com/comics/1223051/female-pony-base-sprites/
>
>     I can now do this:
>     https://puredata.info/Members/jancsika/omgponies.webm/view
>
>     I just added the "realtime code selection" as an afterthought
>     using [cnv] objects.  However, it
>     would be neat to be able to group code and highlight it
>     programmatically as the data is flowing.
>
>     -Jonathan
>
>

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