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vjfader YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 34	for VJ, how to switch between sketches easily Mar 23^rd, 2009, 11:16pm Hi, i'm a VJ (video jockey) and I use processing. I'm trying to figure out how to switch between more than one processing sketches seemlessly during a live VJ performance? is there a way to switch between multiple sketches within a master sketch?

cloister

Re: for VJ, how to switch between sketches easily
Reply #1 - Mar 24^th, 2009, 12:29am

My thought, although there's probably a cleverer way to do this, would be to encapsulate each sketch as a separate class that implements draw(), and package them all up into one master sketch. The master sketch's draw() just calls the appropriate sub-sketch's draw. The master sketch then only has to create instances of the sub-sketches and switch between them according to whatever input you want.

vjfader

Re: for VJ, how to switch between sketches easily
Reply #2 - Mar 24^th, 2009, 1:10am

cloister wrote on Mar 24^th, 2009, 12:29am:

My thought, although there's probably a cleverer way to do this, would be to encapsulate each sketch as a separate class that implements draw(), and package them all up into one master sketch. The master sketch's draw() just calls the appropriate sub-sketch's draw. The master sketch then only has to create instances of the sub-sketches and switch between them according to whatever input you want.

Will you be able to provide an example of what you mentioned here How would you start/stop draw() of a sub-sketch

REAS YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 712 CA	Re: for VJ, how to switch between sketches easily Reply #3 - Mar 24^th, 2009, 4:48am onar3D has worked on a library called Mother to do this.

PhiLho YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: for VJ, how to switch between sketches easily Reply #4 - Mar 24^th, 2009, 6:44am I also give an example in Re: Sequencing, display update, and functions. The sketches are run sequentially, after a given time, but you can also use keyboard or mouse events, for examples (or Midi, serial, etc.) to switch them as well.

vjfader YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 34	Re: for VJ, how to switch between sketches easily Reply #5 - Mar 30^th, 2009, 2:17pm REAS wrote on Mar 24^th, 2009, 4:48am: onar3D has worked on a library called Mother to do this. I shall revisit the Mother library, thanks for reminding.

vjfader

Re: for VJ, how to switch between sketches easily
Reply #6 - Apr 2^nd, 2009, 10:00am

PhiLho wrote on Mar 24^th, 2009, 6:44am:

I also give an example in Re: Sequencing, display update, and functions. The sketches are run sequentially, after a given time, but you can also use keyboard or mouse events, for examples (or Midi, serial, etc.) to switch them as well.

This is starting to look interesting, thanks for the post, will do some code cracking on this.

Mukei YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 11 Tokyo	Re: for VJ, how to switch between sketches easily Reply #7 - Jul 3^rd, 2009, 2:05am Mother seems to be aimed at windows user... isn't there any other solution for mac users ?

-rb- YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 6	Re: for VJ, how to switch between sketches easily Reply #8 - Aug 5^th, 2009, 2:37am Wow this looks good. Anyone got some sample code as to how to map sketch changes to keyboard (or any other input for that matter) rather than duration? This would be good for mac users who are waiting for Mother to be ported.

PhiLho YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: for VJ, how to switch between sketches easily Reply #9 - Aug 5^th, 2009, 3:22am -rb- wrote on Aug 5^th, 2009, 2:37am: Anyone got some sample code as to how to map sketch changes to keyboard (or any other input for that matter) If you look at the example I gave, just move the 'time' depending code in draw() to a keyboard or mouse (or other) event handler.

-rb- YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 6	Re: for VJ, how to switch between sketches easily Reply #10 - Aug 5^th, 2009, 5:26pm Thanks thats what I'm up to at the moment! I'm new so it's taking me a while

Bloom Ex Member	Re: for VJ, how to switch between sketches easily Reply #11 - Jan 29^th, 2010, 9:01pm Mukei wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2009, 2:05am: Mother seems to be aimed at windows user... isn't there any other solution for mac users it does support osx