It seems that there is a strong demand for the MAUI port to PC and Linux versions of the miniAudicle. In fact there's so much demand for a ChucK GUI that three or four people have created their own ChucK GUIs and posted about them to the forum. Being gifted with MAUI powers as a Mac user, it is unfortunate that I cannot share my MAUI programs with many fellow ChucKists. I wonder if we could get some news about the MAUI porting progress? Perhaps someone on the dev team can fill us in? Inventor
Hello Inventor, First let me commend your MAUI exploits! That pong game is fun... we definitely didn't anticipate animated UI widgets floating around when this stuff was written. Although, we do recognize the need also for some sort of basic drawing 2D API. Might I recommend trying an "LED" element for the pong ball though? Seems a little more natural for that to be bouncing around than a square block... As to porting MAUI to Windows and Linux, it seems clear that my physical departure from the Princeton Soundlab has tempered my miniAudicle-hacking vigor. However, given the current "swell" of interest (4 people counts as a swell for miniAudicle) in porting MAUI to other platforms, I think I can get back in the game and have some results in the next few weeks. There should be something in CVS to start playing with sooner--the basic structure of MAUI for Windows/ Linux is implemented, its mostly a matter of filling in blanks and testing. spencer On Mar 29, 2008, at 9:24 PM, Inventor-66@comcast.net wrote:
It seems that there is a strong demand for the MAUI port to PC and Linux versions of the miniAudicle. In fact there's so much demand for a ChucK GUI that three or four people have created their own ChucK GUIs and posted about them to the forum. Being gifted with MAUI powers as a Mac user, it is unfortunate that I cannot share my MAUI programs with many fellow ChucKists. I wonder if we could get some news about the MAUI porting progress? Perhaps someone on the dev team can fill us in?
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Spencer Salazar schrieb:
Although, we do recognize the need also for some sort of basic drawing 2D API.
something like a 2D canvas to draw on would be fun. maybe cairo: http://cairographics.org/ best joerg -- http://joerg.piringer.net http://www.transacoustic-research.com http://www.iftaf.org http://www.vegetableorchestra.org/
On 31/03/2008, Spencer Salazar
some sort of basic drawing 2D API.
YES! (also a loud "YES" to Joerg) Might I recommend trying an "LED"
element for the pong ball though? Seems a little more natural for that to be bouncing around than a square block...
Could be for historical reasons? Originally PONG had a square ball. Also, I think that in "real" pong the bats don't detect collision while moving which can be (and is) used by expert players at times as a feature. However, given the current "swell" of
interest (4 people counts as a swell for miniAudicle) in porting MAUI to other platforms, I think I can get back in the game and have some results in the next few weeks.
Well, then, let me grab this chance to tell you I'm a great fan of your work. I really like the Mini a lot (in fact last week I had to write a short bio for a gig and used the Mini as a text editor because it was at hand and is so pleasantly clean and simple) and consider your work on the HID's interface amongst the clearest and most pleasant to work with sides to ChucK. If you could spare some time to work on this I would be deeply grateful. Chances are that would lead to questions and perhaps exotic bug reports which in turn could lead to barrages of emails and demanding yet more time.... ...but that's how it goes when one has fans. :¬) I wrote many times about respecting how you and the other dev's have a finite amount of time but clearly it can't hurt to mention that I (and others with me!) very much appreciate it when you elect to spend yours on making all these fun toys and expressive instruments for us. Yours, Kas.
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