On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 01:36:00PM -0400, William Ferrell wrote: > On 6/25/06, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I'll admit; that's *almost* all I've got so far. :-) > Not quite: I have a paper sketch of a screen layout. > I need to figure out Glade, which I gather is the prototyping > environment of choice for complicated user interfaces. > As I've discussed before, though, primarily with Will, who's done much > of this already, though not all in one place, my goal is to create a > one-screen, full-screen interface that handles multiple playlists > (karaoke, background, sound-effects, etc), possibly driving multiple > outputs (my Terratec Phase 26USB will generate 3 stereo pairs to feed > my mixer), and potentially interface with wireless songbook tablets (my > current target is the Fujitsu Point 510 or 1600; the touchscreens of > which are 800x600, color, and don't require a pen). > How *have* things been going with your lashup these days? > > I've relocated to Florida (Palm Bay), and am trying to set > up shop here as a KJ.
Well, no shit. Welcome to sunny (where, by sunny, right now I mean 'rainy') Florida. > I'm making some progress in that area > (feels like more "sideways" than "forward" movement though), I can understand that. > but software projects are paying the bills right now. I've got Was that what brought you here? > a lot of things as far as a hosting platform working on a "by > hand" basis; I use JACK for low-latency audio production, mplayer > for video/multimedia playback, xmms for filler music playlist > management and visualizations (projectM), and Firefox to display > rotation information on the screen. PyKaraoke is used for actual > CDG playback; I don't use 100% of the screen for it, but instead > leave a bar at the top and bottom now (top shows name of singer and > song title, bottom shows a smooth line-by-line scroller that shows > the next few singers and promotional texts). The HTML in use now > auto-generates the bulk of the screen via Javascript; I just fill > in names, song titles, and group assignments, and mark who's up, > and it auto-generates the rest, including the grid, "who's next," > etc. There's a lot left to automate, as for now I run things by > hand as far as firing off new CDG songs, videos, etc. Yep. And it's that "by hand" stuff I want to package up and automate. > And where's your blog again? > > [2]http://willfe.com/ I haven't written much in it lately, mostly > because the biggest reason I moved here in the first place turned > out to be one hell of a lie (it involved a woman, go figure) and > there just hasn't been much motivation to actually write. Wow. That blew up? Damn; sorry, guy. Cheers, -- jr 'well, not really; it's just what I say' a -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail? Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Pykaraoke-discuss mailing list Pykaraoke-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pykaraoke-discuss
