[PD] RJDJ,sceneplayer & Xoom

Joe White white.joe4 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 16:58:02 CEST 2011


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On 8 June 2011 15:48, Pagano, Patrick <pat at digitalworlds.ufl.edu> wrote:

> Umm, currently
>
> Cloning into rjlib...
> Permission denied (publickey).
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly…..
>
>
> From: Peter Brinkmann <peter.brinkmann at googlemail.com>
> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 10:47:11 -0400
> To: Chris McCormick <chris at mccormick.cx>
> Cc: pd-list <pd-list at iem.at>, Joe White <white.joe4 at gmail.com>
>
> Subject: Re: [PD] RJDJ,sceneplayer & Xoom
>
>
> Hi,
> A few clarifications regarding the ScenePlayer app for Android:
>
> * The app faithfully implements all features of the iPhone app that were
> publicly documented last summer, including rj_image, rj_text, sensor input,
> etc.  There have been a few additions since (scaling and rotating text, I
> think); those will be easy enough to add when I see the new specs, and I'm
> not aware of any scenes that require them.  In short, a properly written
> RjDj scene should look and behave the same for both versions.
>
> * The Android version implements rj_image and friends as abstractions, not
> externals.  The immediate practical reason is that the architecture of
> Android apps pretty much requires this, but it's also a simpler design that
> was possible because of the message-passing features of libpd.  Generally
> speaking, I believe that the only externals that you would really want to
> use with libpd are those that enhance the signal processing capabilities of
> Pd (e.g., fiddle~).  Everything else is more easily implemented outside of
> Pd and controlled with messages.
>
> * I don't think it would be a good idea to generalize ScenePlayer to accept
> image sizes other than 320x320 because that would almost certainly break
> compatibility with the original.  A more realistic approach would be to
> tweak the UI so that it'll scale to fill up the screen (while preserving the
> aspect ratio) or at least center itself on Honeycomb devices.  I won't have
> time to work on this, but if somebody wants to implement this, I'll be happy
> to consider a patch.
>
> Cheers,
>      Peter
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Chris McCormick <chris at mccormick.cx>wrote:
>
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 01:59:44PM +0100, Joe White wrote:
>> > Couldn't we just update the [rj_image] external in the ScenePlayer on
>> Android
>> > to accept any sized image?
>>
>> Sure, but then scenes you make and run with ScenePlayer would be
>> incompatible with RjDj on iOS. There are other things to be taken into
>> account too, like what happens if your user has a tablet with a different
>> aspect ratio? How should images be stretched etc.? A fixed 320x320 bitmap is
>> not a great starting point to make things more flexible and still look good.
>> Basically you have to break the existing RjDj format if you want those
>> features.
>>
>> With PdDroidParty I am going to provide a facility to bundle SVGs
>> ("Scalable Vector Graphic") for your patch background and for each GUI type
>> in order to theme them. I was also thinking about 9-patch graphics[1].
>> Hopefully this means that patches with fancy graphics will look reasonable
>> on all devices. I am some way off from doing that though, and I may run out
>> of steam before I get to it. :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris.
>>
>> [1] http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/draw9patch.html
>>
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