[PD] Make a grid for choosing videos. How

[Javier García]

and for windows this is also the solution?


>From: IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
>To: Javier García <tirengarfio at hotmail.com>,  pd-list <pd-list at iem.at>
>Subject: Re: [PD] Make a grid for choosing videos. How
>Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:37:08 +0200
>
>Javier García wrote:
>>Thanks IOhannes, but
>>
>>>[bng][bng][bng]
>>>[bng][bng][bng]
>>>[bng][bng][bng]
>>>
>>>connect each [bng] to another messagebox holding the filename of the 
>>>video you want to trigger; then connect all of them to:
>>>
>>>|
>>>[symbol]
>>>|
>>>[open $1(
>>>|
>>>[pix_film]
>>>
>>
>>
>>anyway to see the frame-icon of the video?
>>
>
>no.
>Gem outputs to a special "gem-window" and not to a pd-canvas. there are no 
>plans to change this (at least not in a a way you intend it)
>
>a solution for you would be: generate thumbnails from your videos via an 
>off-pd script (choose your favourite tool)
>use one of the tcl/tk image-loading externals (don't ask me for a specific 
>library; i don't know it, but most likely there are several of them (iemgui 
>being one of them; no idea where to get a compiled version for osx (and 
>whether it works on osx at all))) to load the thumbnails into your patch; 
>depending on the object it might react on clicks or you have to put a [bng] 
>below it...
>
>of course this is rather non-dynamic.
>
>
>btw: always reply to the pd-list and not just to me in private.
>
>mfga.sdr
>.IOhannes