Re: [pygame] Better Python music playback?

2009-05-25 Thread Nathan Whitehead
Yeah, the synchronization problem is annoying. That's the main motivation why I wrote swmixer. Take a look at the documentation page, under the section EXPLICIT TICK INTERFACE. http://code.google.com/p/pygalaxy/wiki/SWMixer That section shows how you can calculate chunks of sound and

Re: [pygame] Geany

2008-11-08 Thread Nathan Whitehead
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 7:37 AM, pymike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you've got lots of tabs and 4 spaces mixed together you can either The version of geany I have (0.13) has a menu option Document-Replace Tabs by Spaces that does this. -- Nathan Whitehead

Re: [pygame] Recording sound

2008-10-29 Thread Nathan Whitehead
/SWMixer -- Nathan Whitehead

Re: [pygame] Recording sound

2008-10-29 Thread Nathan Whitehead
/pygalaxy/wiki/pyFluidSynth Is your API stable at this point? All the packages and APIs should be relatively stable, but they have not been tested on all architectures by lots of people. Bug reports are encouraged. -- Nathan Whitehead

Re: [pygame] Indie Game Host

2008-10-22 Thread Nathan Whitehead
yes or run or whatever a couple times, just like I do with exe files. I'm not a windows user normally, though, so my system may be horribly out of date and not representative of most users. -- Nathan Whitehead

Re: [pygame] Indie Game Host

2008-10-18 Thread Nathan Whitehead
? An example game (not mine), including python source and a Windows .exe file: http://www.pyweek.org/e/midnightsun/ -- Nathan Whitehead

Re: [pygame] recommendation for a good n00b IDE

2008-10-03 Thread Nathan Whitehead
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:35 PM, pymike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geany is similar to SCiTE, but preferences are more easily edited. Geany is by far the best IDE for Ubuntu (and I've tried a TON) Just tried this, Geany rules! Thanks for mentioning it. Geany also handles pygame hangups nicely,

[pygame] Game Maker but with Python?

2008-10-01 Thread Nathan Whitehead
I just saw 100 Game Maker Games, a cool 10 minute video that shows the wide variety of cool games you can make with Game Maker. http://playthisthing.com/100-game-maker-games There should be something like this but with Python and pygame! My friends at UCSC have taught intro programming using

Re: [pygame] Game Maker but with Python?

2008-10-01 Thread Nathan Whitehead
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Ron Dippold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It would be nice having a python scriptable Game Maker, but that would be a huge undertaking - it's 100x more work to write a game maker that requires no coding than it is to write a single game. But you might take a look

Re: [pygame] AppState-0.1 released

2008-09-27 Thread Nathan Whitehead
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Horst JENS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somehow i would feel uncomfortable if i had to type in my gmail account password just to upload an highscore - even if it's a open-source app. You don't have to use your gmail account, you can create a new Google Account just

Re: [pygame] AppState-0.1 released

2008-09-25 Thread Nathan Whitehead
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Horst JENS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sounds interesting. Do i understand this right: all players need to have an valid google account to join ? Only the creator of the game will be asked to write his google account passwort inside python code ? I think

[pygame] AppState-0.1 released

2008-09-16 Thread Nathan Whitehead
/AppState README with more info: http://code.google.com/p/pygalaxy/wiki/AppState Suggestions are welcome. -- Nathan Whitehead

Re: [pygame] Display Update Trouble After Focus Loss

2008-09-11 Thread Nathan Whitehead
frame maybe). That will allow pygame to process windowing events during the animation. -- Nathan Whitehead

[pygame] SoundAnalyse

2008-09-09 Thread Nathan Whitehead
with pyaudio for sound, it works fine. If you want sound playback along with microphone input, try my SWMixer module: http://code.google.com/p/pygalaxy/wiki/SWMixer Give it a try and let me know what you think. -- Nathan Whitehead

Re: [pygame] SoundAnalyse

2008-09-09 Thread Nathan Whitehead
is a beat detector, which seems closely related. I'll definitely take a look. Ooo, a beat detector, I should totally add that. I'll have to look up the algorithms for that. Thanks for the suggestion. -- Nathan Whitehead

Re: [pygame] Pygame, cwiid and ode - movement

2008-08-07 Thread Nathan Whitehead
the paddle responding to input rather than stopping abruptly at the edge of the screen. FYI: I'm working on a pygame library that supports the wiimote on all platforms, it will be done Real Soon Now. -- Nathan Whitehead

Re: [pygame] phpbb forum missing at pygame.org website

2008-07-25 Thread Nathan Whitehead
think nowadays people are more comfortable joining a forum than subscribing to a mailing list. -- Nathan Whitehead

Re: [pygame] pygame documentation license

2008-05-22 Thread Nathan Whitehead
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Brian Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what makes you think the documentation is licensed under LGPL? The documentation is included in the pygame release in the directory docs/. All the information about licensing I have found for pygame is that it is LGPL.

[pygame] pygame documentation license

2008-05-21 Thread Nathan Whitehead
website (LaTeX source). The entire book would not be LGPL. Some chapters will appear for free on the website, others will not. I think this would be OK, but I'm not a license expert. Any thoughts? Apart from legalities, would that be appropriate? -- Nathan Whitehead deadpixelpress.com

Re: [pygame] pygame documentation license

2008-05-21 Thread Nathan Whitehead
along to my lawyer friend and see if he has any new angles on it. -- Nathan Whitehead deadpixelpress.com

Re: [pygame] starting sound playback at offset

2008-05-09 Thread Nathan Whitehead
frequency is 44100, then 44100 samples is one second offset. -- Nathan Whitehead

[pygame] starting sound playback at offset

2008-05-07 Thread Nathan Whitehead
. To get the beats to match up I need to start the new track at an offset. -- Nathan Whitehead

Re: Re: [pygame] Python and Speed

2008-04-18 Thread Nathan Whitehead
will come out when you request a key, it could be an integer, a sprite object, None, ... The programming languages community is working feverishly to combine the benefits of typed languages with the ease of use of dynamic languages, but it is an ongoing effort. -- Nathan Whitehead

Re: [pygame] I'm loving wills book :)

2008-04-14 Thread Nathan Whitehead
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Lamonte(Scheols/Demonic) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only pygame book availible to man? http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781590598726 Hi, might as well introduce myself. I'm Nathan Whitehead, just got my computer science phd. My main research is in security