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September 30, 2003
Image Control in Max
hey. just checking in to see if anyone is actually using this. thanks for posting the pics, perry.
I was hoping to see some more posts here, but I guess everyone hasn't had any problems with the project. I've gotten the stamp communicating with max, but have a feeling that my trasmit wire on my serial cable was soltered in a pretty pathetic manner, so I need to go back and fix that...
anyway, I wanted to make a quick post referencing the project, and possible implementations of the graphic of the light bulb turning on and off in max. this can be done many ways, but the easiest is probably swapping image files using the fpic object, which looks like a little series of orange, pink, and purple shapes on the top object bar. you can also just type fpic into a new object box. the help file shows how to swap images in and out of the object -- just bang a message with the image file name into the object, and it will change. that way, you can just use perry's patch for the serial object, and then send that bang from the select object (when the switch is on) to a message like light_on.jpg, and then send the output of that message into the left inlet of fpic. Similarly, when the switch is off, send a bang to something like light_off.jpg, and then feed that to fpic. this is a good primer to max, as much of the stuff you end up doing is firing bangs to messages, then sending those messages to objects.
Posted by will at September 30, 2003 12:18 PM
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Once again, no one is using this cause they can't find it. We need a link to it from the main blog.
Posted by: Mike at October 1, 2003 03:08 PM
listen.
I sent an email out with the address. it doesn't take rocket science to bookmark the page. I decided not to link it from the main page because we, as a class, had not decided how open we wanted it, and not linking was the easiest temporary solution. We can talk about it tomorrow night. But use the blog, don't use it, whatever. But don't tell me nobody can find it. Nobody is really posting on the main blog either, so I'm not sure putting a link to this page there would help out much...
Ok, I'm done with the rant. I apologize.
Posted by: will at October 1, 2003 09:16 PM
Most of us work several different jobs and are never at our home machines when we access the blogs anyway...SO...we can't use our handy bookmarks. I really don't think anybody would bug the 534/532 blog anyway, even if it is linked up to the main page. But regardless, not many people are using the blogs period. I understand your concerns, but it will take time to get everyone accustomed and using the system. I have been cruising personal blogs of the students and it's getting there. People will take the time as soon as they have the time. Please see my other "nicer" post to your newest message.
Posted by: Mike at October 1, 2003 10:06 PM
Thanks Will... very helpful.
K
Posted by: Kurt at October 2, 2003 03:16 AM
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