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Re: [chuck-users] user study!!!
by biotechisgodzilla.wifebeater 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

This is in merit of the great tutorial at http://ravelite.org/chuck-notes/tutorial.html there is a little typo here: Now use this function to simulate indexing into the scale. [0,2,3,1,4,2,6,3,4,4] @=> int mel[]; //sequence data [0,2,4,5,7,9,11,12] @=> int major[]; //major scale for (0=>int i; ; i++) { //infinite loop std.mtof( 48 + scale( mel[i%mel.cap()], major ) => inst.freq; //set the note inst.noteOn( 0.5 ); //play a note at half volume 300::ms => now; //compute audio for 0.3 sec } this string: std.mtof( 48 + scale( mel[i%mel.cap()], major ) => inst.freq; //set the note lacks an ) should be std.mtof( 48 + scale( mel[i%mel.cap()], major )) => inst.freq; //set the note seeya .mike

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problem with chuck-notes tutorial
by Atte André Jensen 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

Hi I'm having a problem with the "chuck-notes" tutorial (http://ravelite.org/chuck-notes/tutorial.html). In section 1.3 (Flexible scales) I pasted the examples into the attached file, with which chuck reports: [atte@aarhus chuck-notes]$ chuck tut_04.ck [tut_04.ck]:line(24).char(64): syntax error Am I missing something obvious here? -- peace, love & harmony Atte http://www.atte.dk | quartet: http://www.anagrammer.dk http://www.atte.dk/gps | compositions: http://www.atte.dk/compositions //connect a plucked string to the soundcard out StifKarp inst => dac; fun int scale(int a, int sc[]) { sc.cap() => int n; //number of degrees in scale a/n => int o; //octave being requested, number of wraps a%n => a; //wrap the note within first octave if ( a<0 ) { //cover the negative border case a + 12 => a; o - 1 => o; } //each octave contributes 12 semitones, plus the scale return o*12 + sc[a]; } [0,2,3,1,4,2,6,3,4,4] @=> int mel[]; //sequence data [0,2,4,5,7,9,11,12] @=> int major[]; //major scale for (0=>int i; ; i++) { //infinite loop std.mtof( 48 + scale( mel[i%mel.cap()], major ) => inst.freq; //set the note inst.noteOn( 0.5 ); //play a note at half volume 300::ms => now; //compute audio for 0.3 sec }

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Atlanta Laptop Battle: Mon 11 June 10ish - Lenny's
by Graham Coleman 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

ChucKers (who may or may not be in Atlanta), I'll be competing in Battle Three of the Series. I'll be spinning some live ChucK. It might be silly. But that isn't going to stop me. more information: http://www.zeroplate.com/laptop/ best, Graham

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Re: [chuck-users] MidiOut
by Ollie Glass 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

Thanks for the example, that's perfect. I guessed it would be straightforward to use. Is there a ChucK object browser, or any way to print all the properties of an object? Ollie > Hey there, > Sorry for the late reply. There isnt any documentation for it, but > its pretty simple. In case youre still wondering, heres an example > that just sends a noteOn and noteOff. > > // data structures > MidiOut mout; > MidiMsg msg; > > // connect > if( !mout.open( 0 ) ) me.exit(); > <<< "connected to MIDI port 0", "" >>>; > > // noteOn > 0x90 => msg.data1; > 60 => msg.data2; > 127 => msg.data3; > > // send > mout.send( msg ); > > // wait > 1::second => now; > > > 0x80 => msg.data1; > 60 => msg.data2; > > mout.send( msg ); > > > > hope this helps, > spencer > > On Jun 5, 2006, at 8:07 AM, Ollie Glass wrote: > > > Is there any documentation available for the MidiOut object? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ollie > > _______________________________________________ > > chuck-users mailing list > > chuck-users(a)lists.cs.princeton.edu > > https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/chuck-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > chuck-users mailing list > chuck-users(a)lists.cs.princeton.edu > https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/chuck-users > > >

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MidiOut
by Ollie Glass 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

Is there any documentation available for the MidiOut object? Thanks, Ollie

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Question on Shred Scheduling
by Mike McGonagle 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

I am working on a complete rewrite of my Masking package (the original was too bulky and dependant on creating hundreds of shreds), and was wondering just how something is scheduled in ChucK. Basically, I am trying to create a single shred that handles the updating of various parameters (as opposed to the original which had a shred for each parameter), and in doing so, I would like to create a "locking" mechanism around an array used to control which parameters get updated, and when. On one shred, there is the code that controlls the updating of parameters, this shred runs for the life of the program (or some portion of). On the second shred (most likely the main shred), the array containing the references to the parameters to be updated needs to be locked to prevent having a new reference added while the first shred is actually updating the parameters. (Does this make sense?) So, what I would like to know is how the following code would execute. now + 0::ms => now; Would this push the execution of the code to follow to the end of the current time slice? Or is this functionality undefined, and would it execute these shreds in an arbitrary fashion? In a nut shell, this is the code from the updating shred that locks the array... (this is embedded in an object) false => int locked; false => int keepGoing; MController @ controllers[]; // this gets initialized to match the number of controlled parameters fun void helper(....) { true => keepGoing; while(keepGoing) { while(locked) { now + 0::ms => now; } true => locked; for(0 => int i; i < controllers.cap(); i++) { if (controllers[i] != null) { <<< "do something with this controller", "" >>>; } } false => locked; } } The variable 'locked' controlls the access to the 'for' loop, and the variable 'keepGoing' controlls the outer loop. 'keepGoing' is set to true at the top of this code, but will be set to false by another shred to force the 'helper' function to exit as needed. The array 'controllers' is accessed by both this shred, as well as the main shred to add -- Help the Environment, Plant a Bush back in Texas!

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hail to all!
by biotechisgodzilla.wifebeater 10 Jun '06

10 Jun '06

Greetings to everyone i've just subscribe this list and wish to scream at u ... OMFG IT'S YEARS THAT I'M LOOKING TO A SOFTWARE LIKE THAT!!!!! i reach that project because it's a dependancy of that tool: http://www.blackholeprojector.com/index.html (Breakage) [which i still have not tested] {now i'm too busy with playing with chuck} which was notified today on freshmeat i've just build the binary of crunch, run some example and read some docs on the site i'm definitely already in love with this piece of art tnx to all developers .mike p.s.: running on debian sarge on an AMD laptop @ 800Mhz with --bufsize2048, works like a charm with no glitches

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Re: [chuck-users] AI drum machine
by Ollie Glass 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

> Wow - that looks REALLY interesting! Thank you :-) > I managed to get it up and running on my (Windows) PC - but I had > to change the chuck file (not the midi one) so that the default > samples were loaded. It was looking in the 'data' folder rather > than 'samples' - also the closed hat and open hat are ch.wav and > oh.wav. Thanks for these comments, I've fixed these bugs in the new release. > Would it be possible to add note length at some point? Although > this is probably moving away from the drum machine approach. At the moment the samples play for their 'natural' length. I can see how note length could be done if the sequence sent MIDI out events but not with samples. How would you do this? > > Can't wait to try it out with more channels and my own samples. > > Thanks a tonne! > > rikrak > >> On 6/8/06, Ollie Glass <ollieglaskovik(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> I've released an artificially intelligent drum machine using ChucK at >> www.blackholeprojector.com >> >> Hope you enjoy it. The two scripts for the step sequencer could be >> useful to people doing related things. >> >> Thanks to everyone who made ChucK, answered my questions on this list >> and made my app possible! >> >> Ollie >> _______________________________________________ >> chuck-users mailing list >> chuck-users(a)lists.cs.princeton.edu >> https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/chuck-users

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What about "delayp"
by Jim Hinds 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

I'm looking at the documentation for the unit generator 'delayp' Too cryptic for me. The source code isn't very helpful either. And the delayp.ck example prog seems to have gone missing. Can anyone enlighten me about the adjustable write window and what that is supposed to do? Jim Hinds jahbini(a)jahbini.org http://www.celarien.com/ http://www.jahbini.info/

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AI drum machine
by Ollie Glass 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

I've released an artificially intelligent drum machine using ChucK at www.blackholeprojector.com Hope you enjoy it. The two scripts for the step sequencer could be useful to people doing related things. Thanks to everyone who made ChucK, answered my questions on this list and made my app possible! Ollie

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setenv?
by Kassen 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Hi list, Is there a known issue with std.setenv() ? For me on XP sp1 std.setenv("foo", "bar"); Returns a zero and doesn't actually set anything. What I want to acomplish is the following; I want to have one shred that calls in a set of other shreds that all sync in the style of the otf examples but I'd like to set a environment variable that tells them what our bpm will be. Also; do I understand correctly that the only way of turning a string into a int or float is by abusing the acii numbers? Even if I happen to know the string is a number? As I type this I just realised it might be a lot more practical to stop postponing reading up on global classes, still it looks like std.setenv() is malfuctioning. Yours, kas.

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More buffer record and samplelooping
by Hans Leeuw 31 May '06

31 May '06

Hi list, I tried a few things with the array solution mentioned. It works but it takes a lot of the processor. I got about 10 sporks going (plain playing), but I'd like to use some of the flexibility of 'sndbuf' So I'd like to try writing to disk and using a sndbuf as well. But with the following lines of code it does not work. The sound is not properly written to disk. //sucking samples; adc => WvOut w => blackhole; // this is the output file name "/Users/hansleeuw/miniaudiclefolder/examples/data/trumpet.wav" => w.wavFilename; 1 => w.record; //start recording 2::second => now; //a soundfile of 2 seconds 0 => w.record; //stop recording w.closeFile; //to do it properly (also tried without) // Now loading the soundfile in and here the program crashes // (miniaudicle and terminal) sndbuf buf => dac; "/Users/hansleeuw/miniaudiclefolder/examples/data/trumpet.wav" => buf.read; while( true ) 1::second => now; In terminal I get the messages: ugen_xxx.cpp:1986: failed assertion `d->fd == NULL' Abort trap What can be the problem? It seems the soundfile is not written properly. Quicktime gives "incorrect duration" (-1024). I don't have a problem loading 'proper' soundfiles with sndbuf. Thanks for your time. Best, Hans.

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ChucKML Download
by DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI 22 May '06

22 May '06

ChucKML ( http://wiki.cs.princeton.edu/index.php/ChucKML ) appears to be very interesting, and useful for what I want to do. I don't know if I'm missing or overlooking anything, but I can't find where to download this. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks. -Dan

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Joypad abuse.
by Kassen 22 May '06

22 May '06

Hi list. In testing my new joypad I quickly cooked this up. It's kinda cheap but like many cheap things it's good fun so I thought somebody else might have fun with it too. I'm asuming everybody has amen or simmilar break lying around somewhere. With a little practice somewhat convincing jungle can be made, this takes considderably less time then it took years ago cutting&pasting in a wave editor.... It's just a quick toy, if anybody needs comments somewhere I'd be happy to help. By the way; I'm using one of these "thrustmaster" youpads now that are styled after teh PS2 ones. With this the "stutter" and "reverse" buttons end up conveniently under your index fingers. If you are using some flight-sim joystick none of thismay make sense and you may need to edit a little. For what it's worth, Kas. ------------------------- sndbuf buf => PitShift ps => dac; "data/amnbreak.wav" => buf.read; 1 => buf.loop; 1 => ps.mix; buf.samples() => int A; (A / 32) => int beat; beat::samp => dur click; int pos2; int pos1; 1 => int dir; int stut; click / 4 => dur frtclick; 4 => int rate; fun void joyreader() { // make HidIn and HidMsg HidIn hi; HidMsg msg; // open joystick 0, exit on fail if( !hi.openJoystick( 0 ) ) me.exit(); // infinite event loop while( true ) { // wait on HidIn as event hi => now; // messages received while( hi.recv( msg ) ) { <<< msg.type, msg.which, msg.idata, msg.fdata >>>; if (msg.type == 0 && msg.which == 1 ) (-msg.fdata + 1) * dir => buf.rate; if (msg.type == 0 && msg.which == 0 ) ((16 * msg.fdata) + 16) $ int => rate; if (msg.type == 0 && msg.which == 2 ) 1 - msg.fdata => ps.shift; if (msg.type == 0 && msg.which == 3 ) (A * msg.fdata * msg.fdata) $ int => pos2; if (msg.type == 1 && msg.which == 0 ) 0 => pos1; if (msg.type == 1 && msg.which == 1 ) (A / 4) => pos1; if (msg.type == 1 && msg.which == 2 ) 2 * (A / 4) => pos1; if (msg.type == 1 && msg.which == 3 ) 3 * (A / 4) => pos1; if (msg.type == 1 && msg.which == 4 ) { -1 => dir; if ( (buf.rate() * dir) < 0) (-1 * buf.rate() ) => buf.rate; } if (msg.type == 2 && msg.which == 4 ) { 1 => dir; if ( (buf.rate() * dir) < 0) (-1 * buf.rate() ) => buf.rate; } if (msg.type == 1 && msg.which == 6 ) 1 => stut; if (msg.type == 2 && msg.which == 6 ) 0 => stut; } } } spork ~ joyreader(); 0 => int step; fun void sync() { click - (now % click) => now; while(true) { if(!stut) { step * beat => pos1; pos1 => buf.pos; } 1 +=> step; (step % 32) => step; click => now; } } spork ~ sync(); click - (now % click) => now; while (true) { if (stut)(pos1 + pos2) % A => buf.pos; if (rate==0) 1 => rate; rate * frtclick => now; }

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multi channel and EMU under XP?
by Kassen 20 May '06

20 May '06

Hi, list. Has anybody gotten the multi-channel stuff to work with one of the EMU cards that use Patchmix under XP? I dug through a stack of online posts and it seems that in the past these cards had issues with multi channel DX but right now Winamp is set to "primary sound driver" and does a perfect job of playing a six channel wave file while ChucK --probe doesn't get beyond 2 channels on any of the devices it sees. I use a1616m but I think the drivers are basically the same for all of them. Any pointers would be very welcome. Kas.

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newbie confusion
by plutek 11 May '06

11 May '06

obviously i'm a complete newbie here.... could someone please explain to me why the inner loop in this code is not terminated by the outer loop, after ten seconds: now + 10::second => time later; while( now < later ) { while( 1::second => now ) { <<< now, "inner loop" >>>; } } i suppose i'm victim to some horribly wrong assumption about How Things Work, which brings up my other question: is there some material somewhere (more than just the tutorials) which would take me deeper into a general understanding of the mechanics of coding in ChucK? the language reference is excellent, but doesn't help one to learn how to put all the details together into coherent code. i do have a decent understanding of the principles of synthesis, so it's really questions of logic flow, semantics, and style that concern me. i don't know if material related to other languages will be applicable, due to the strongly-timed nature of ChucK. any advice? (other than enrolling in princeton) :-) many thanks in advance! .pltk.

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On Division, Arithmetic and expressions
by Jim Hinds 10 May '06

10 May '06

Kassen has run into a "feature" of chuck that needs some explanation. The apparent strange behavior of division of integers is common among most computer languages that support integers. The basic common feature is that we want integer computations to result in integers. If it starts with all integer variables and constants, we want to finish with integers (when possible.) You learned about integer division well before you learned about fractions or decimals, and WAY before you learned binary. You remember that the answer to 2 / 3 was: "it doesn't go even once" -- that's zero. The result is well defined and consistent. Integer division goes hand-in-hand with the remainder operation (mod, % or whatever in other languages). In most cases, you don't notice the subtle nature of integer computations. 5 + 3 = 8 is much the same as 5.0 + 3.0 = 8.0 if the answer is float or int, you just don't care. It is, however, important when you do division. It is ALSO important when you are working with "big" numbers (or very negative numbers). When this happens, well formed integer arithmetic will overflow in a predictable way (and we want it that way). For example, since 32767 (2 raised to the 15th power minus 1) is the largest positive number in 16 bit twos-complement arithmetic, we DO WANT our integer computation to result this way: 32767 + 1 = -32768. And not as 32768.0. Yes, this is bizarre, and probably not what you are expecting. But it is very common for computer languages, and those of us with little music and much computer (that's guys like me), it is like breathing: we are so aware of it, that we don't even mention it. OK, so how do you GUARANTEE that there is no funny stuff happening (like truncation or overflow)? Simple. You FORCE at least one side of the operation to be in floating point. The operation is then carried out in floating point and the result is in floating point. Example: 2/3 == 0 (integer divides integer results in exact integer), BUT 2.0 / 3 == .66666667 (integer divides float results in non-exact float) or 2/3.0 == .666666667 (float divides integer results in non-exact float) or float(a) / 3 should result in a float, not an integer. This is mostly the way it is. (you can tell I'm a programmer, since I almost always put that caveat word "mostly" in my explanations: there always seems to be an exception. I hope this helps to understand integer computations in chuck, and other languages. > Kassen sez: > > Hi list, > > Deviding a int by a int results in a int returned like here; > ------ > <<<(2 / 3)>>>; > > //or even like this; > > 2 / 3 => float a; > <<<a>>>; > ------ > > Is that realy the intended behaviour? > In that last case I personally find what happens a bit silly. > > If this realy is the way it should be I think it would be nice to add > a line about this to the manual because I only found out what was > happening exactly after several rounds of testing. Perhaps this is > typical behaviour for some languages but I wasn't used to it. > > Yours, > Kas. > > Jim Hinds http://www.jahbini.org/

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devide issue?
by Kassen 10 May '06

10 May '06

Hi list, Deviding a int by a int results in a int returned like here; ------ <<<(2 / 3)>>>; //or even like this; 2 / 3 => float a; <<<a>>>; ------ Is that realy the intended behaviour? In that last case I personally find what happens a bit silly. If this realy is the way it should be I think it would be nice to add a line about this to the manual because I only found out what was happening exactly after several rounds of testing. Perhaps this is typical behaviour for some languages but I wasn't used to it. Yours, Kas.

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zipper noise
by plutek 05 May '06

05 May '06

greetings! first off..... i am thoroughly enjoying ChucK; thanks a lot! my question is whether anybody has an elegant way of attacking the problem of zipper noise when using external MIDI controllers which send only integer values. it's great that ChucK uses float MIDI values, but we need a way of smoothing incoming controller data -- perhaps something like pd's "line" operator. i'll have to give some thought to how it could be built from scratch, using native primitive operators, but an optimized higher-level function to take care of this would certainly be useful. thanks again! .pltk.

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benchmarking chuck
by eduard aylon 03 May '06

03 May '06

Hello list, Not sure this issue is still of any interest, but just for the record I got up to 836 sine oscillators without crackles. At 836 I got 1 crackle and got the second crackle around 900 sines. Above 960 sine oscillators the crackles appear more often. This is on a Mac Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz, 1GB DDR2 SDRAM, OS 10.4.6 . It make no difference to have my settings under System Preferences > Energy saving as Normal or Best Performance. The code I have used is: 1024 => int max; sinosc @ a[max]; 0 => int counter; sinosc s1; 440 => s1.freq; 1./max => s1.gain; while( true ) { s1 @=> a[counter] => dac; .25::second => now; <<<"oscillator ", counter++>>>; } cheers, Eduard

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Re: [chuck-users] KBHit and arrow keys
by Jim Hinds 30 Apr '06

30 Apr '06

The behavior of KBHit is kind of standard for ketting data from some asynchronous source. Since the chuck program (or any user prog) runs at some unknown speed it is possible for several keys to be pressed before you get control. In that case the boolean (KBHit) returns true. Your input routine would then process all the characters in the input buffer. That's why kb.getchar returns (and removes) the first char in the input buffer. When kb.getchar returns zero, you know that you have processed all of the input. This allows KBHit to get re-enabled so that it will indicate when new stuff is available. This isn't unique to the keyboard, but is pretty much the way all interrupt driven I/O works. So, be happy: what you thought were warts in your program were really elegant solutions to a universal problem. Or something like that. Jim Hinds jahbini(a)jahbini.org http://www.celarien.com/ http://www.jahbini.info/ On Apr 27, 2006, at 6:00 AM, chuck-users- request(a)lists.cs.princeton.edu wrote: > Send chuck-users mailing list submissions to > chuck-users(a)lists.cs.princeton.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/chuck-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > chuck-users-request(a)lists.cs.princeton.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > chuck-users-owner(a)lists.cs.princeton.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of chuck-users digest..." > Today's Topics: > > 1. KBHit and arrow keys. (Kassen) > > From: Kassen <signal.automatique(a)gmail.com> > Date: April 26, 2006 10:22:12 AM HST > To: "ChucK Users Mailing List" <chuck-users(a)lists.cs.princeton.edu> > Subject: [chuck-users] KBHit and arrow keys. > Reply-To: ChucK Users Mailing List <chuck- > users(a)lists.cs.princeton.edu> > > > Hello all, > > The new keyboard input is great but getting the arrow and F1-F10 and > so on keys to work is kinda tricky, I found. I cooked up a sorta kinda > maybe solution to this that I thought might be useful to others as > well. See below. > > use the up and down keys to increase or decrease "bla", then print > bla's current value. This won't win any beauty contests but it does > work. I'm not at all sure why it needs two temporary variables but I > can't get it to work without them. If I don't use temporary variables > it seems that I can only use one test on kb.getchar() before it > disappears(??) and one test isn't enough for anything beyond the most > simple of triggers. The same method could be used to get function keys > to work. > > I hope this is of use to some. This works on my IBM- compatible laptop > running XP, no refunds if it turns out Mac's use some entirely > different way of reading the keyboard; I have no idea how those work. > If it's found useful I could add it to the Wiki? > > Yours, > Kas. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- > // the keyboard input > KBHit kb; > > //some setting that's of great importance somewhere > int bla; > > > // time-loop > while( true ) > { > // wait on kbhit event > kb => now; > > // potentially more than 1 key at a time > while( kb.more() ) > { > //store number to avoid it getting lost after one check > kb.getchar() => int K; > > //arrow keys are encoded in two numbers with the first being 224 > if (K == 224 ) > > { > //wait for the second number > kb => now; > > //the same "anti number disapear" trick > kb.getchar() => int L; > > //do intuitively sensible stuff to "up"... > if(L == 72) 1 +=> bla; > > //........and "down"...... > if(L == 80) 1 -=> bla; > > //...and make the result go somewhere. > <<<"bla is", bla>>>; > } > else > { > //do something else to normal keys > <<<K>>>; > } > } > } > ------------------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > chuck-users mailing list > chuck-users(a)lists.cs.princeton.edu > https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/chuck-users

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multiple class declaration
by eun.sung＠no-log.org 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

Hi list. I declare in a same .ck file two different classes, a standard and a public one. I try to instance an object of the standard class in the public one. This seems to be "unauthorized". Is it a normal behaviour? Is there another way to do that? Greetings.

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KBHit and arrow keys.
by Kassen 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Hello all, The new keyboard input is great but getting the arrow and F1-F10 and so on keys to work is kinda tricky, I found. I cooked up a sorta kinda maybe solution to this that I thought might be useful to others as well. See below. use the up and down keys to increase or decrease "bla", then print bla's current value. This won't win any beauty contests but it does work. I'm not at all sure why it needs two temporary variables but I can't get it to work without them. If I don't use temporary variables it seems that I can only use one test on kb.getchar() before it disappears(??) and one test isn't enough for anything beyond the most simple of triggers. The same method could be used to get function keys to work. I hope this is of use to some. This works on my IBM- compatible laptop running XP, no refunds if it turns out Mac's use some entirely different way of reading the keyboard; I have no idea how those work. If it's found useful I could add it to the Wiki? Yours, Kas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ // the keyboard input KBHit kb; //some setting that's of great importance somewhere int bla; // time-loop while( true ) { // wait on kbhit event kb => now; // potentially more than 1 key at a time while( kb.more() ) { //store number to avoid it getting lost after one check kb.getchar() => int K; //arrow keys are encoded in two numbers with the first being 224 if (K == 224 ) { //wait for the second number kb => now; //the same "anti number disapear" trick kb.getchar() => int L; //do intuitively sensible stuff to "up"... if(L == 72) 1 +=> bla; //........and "down"...... if(L == 80) 1 -=> bla; //...and make the result go somewhere. <<<"bla is", bla>>>; } else { //do something else to normal keys <<<K>>>; } } } -------------------------------------------------

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Building ChucK for Ubuntu 5.10
by Sean M Gomez 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

I'm sure this is a real n00b question, but are there any known problems building ChucK for Ubuntu Linux? I've hit a compile error with rtaudio that I'm not seeing a way around. Any help is appreciated. sean -- Sean M. Gomez ITS - Desktop Support Specialist Wesleyan University

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My solution: HyperArray class
by David Powers 22 Apr '06

22 Apr '06

Hello, my solution to the array problem was to create a new class, "HyperArray", which has functions for insert, remove, remove duplicates. It holds an array, currently of size 1024, but the methods make it appear as if it's an array of variable length. So, I'm going to have the Cell class inherit from HyperArray, and simply add methods that are specific to manipulating arrays of notes (or whatever) in serial fashion. If anyone wants to test this class out more, I'd appreciate it. There may be some things wrong, because when I used the get() method internally, in the shuffle function, it crashed check for reasons I don't really understand. Here's the code: //HyperArray public class HyperArray { //initialize 1024 => int max; 0 => int hyperLen; float hyperA[max]; //set fun void set(float a[]) { a.cap() => hyperLen; for (0 => int i; i<hyperLen; i++) { a[i] => hyperA[i]; } } //get fun float[] get() { float temp[hyperLen]; for (0 => int i; i<hyperLen; i++) { hyperA[i] => temp[i] ; } return temp; } //print fun void print() { for (0 => int i; i<hyperLen; i++) { <<< hyperA[i] >>> ; } } //remove fun void remove (int index) { hyperLen--; for (0 => int i; i < hyperLen; i++) { if (i==index || i>index) { hyperA[i+1] => hyperA[i]; } } } //insert fun void insert (int index, float item) { hyperLen++; get() @=> float temp[]; for (0 => int i; i < hyperLen; i++) { if (i==index) { item => hyperA[i]; } if (i>index) { temp[i-1] => hyperA[i]; } } } //sort fun float[] sort() { float temp; for (0 => int x ; x < hyperLen-1; x++) { for (0 => int y; y < hyperLen-x-1; y++) { if (hyperA[y] > hyperA[y+1]) { hyperA[y] => temp; hyperA[y+1] => hyperA[y]; temp => hyperA[y+1]; } } } return hyperA; } //remove duplicates fun float[] removeDup() { int purge[hyperLen]; 0 => int purgeIndex; for (0 => int i; i<hyperLen-1; i++) { for (i+1 => int j; j<hyperLen;j++) { if (hyperA[i]==hyperA[j]) { j => purge[purgeIndex]; purgeIndex++; } } } for (purgeIndex => int k; k>0; k--) { remove(purge[k-1]); } return hyperA; } //reverse fun float[] reverse() { float newA[hyperLen]; hyperLen - 1 => int counter; for (0 => int i; i<hyperLen; i++) { hyperA[i] => newA[counter]; counter--; } set(newA); return(hyperA); } //shuffle fun float[] shuffle(int times) { float newA[hyperLen]; for (0 => int i; i<hyperLen; i++) { hyperA[i] => newA[i] ; } //--- Shuffle elements by randomly exchanging each with one other. for (0 => int i; i<times; i++) { for (0 => int j; j<hyperLen; j++) { std.rand2(0,hyperLen-1) => int r; // generate a random position newA[j] => float temp; newA[r] => newA[j]; temp => newA[r]; } } set(newA); return(hyperA); } } fun void testShiz() { HyperArray booyah; <<<"Set and print array">>>; booyah.set([5.0,2.0,3.0,4.0,5.0,1.0,2.0,3.0]); booyah.print(); <<<"Remove item at index 3 and print HyperArray">>>; booyah.remove(3); booyah.print(); <<<"insert value 4.0 at index 3 and print HyperArray">>>; booyah.insert(3,4.0); booyah.print(); <<<"Remove duplicates and print HyperArray">>>; booyah.removeDup(); booyah.print(); <<<"Sort and print HyperArray">>>; booyah.sort(); booyah.print(); <<<"Reverse and print HyperArray">>>; booyah.reverse(); booyah.print(); <<<"Shuffle and print HyperArray">>>; booyah.shuffle(3); booyah.print(); <<<"Create new array using HyperArray get method, print new array">>>; booyah.get() @=> float theNewArray[]; for (0 => int i; i<theNewArray.cap();i++) { <<<theNewArray[i]>>>; } } testShiz();

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