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gabecolors

Color Box (wii infrared) content
Feb 10^th, 2010, 3:31am

I'm creating a 10'x10' box for a festival with projection on all four sides. Some of the content is in flash and some is in processing. I need to build a container for the different content pieces in ... HTML? I was having trouble getting everything full screen and it seemed to kind of slow things down if I switched between flash and processing.

samples of the content:
flash: colorisrelative.com/RichMedia/matrix_2.swf
processing: gabemott.com/RichMedia/processing/

Here's the other important factor- everything thus far must be controlled with mouseovers. I'm using Johnny Lee's Wii remote hack to control everything with infrared LEDs. so basically the user is controlling the colors by waving around an infrared LED.

I may have to sort out some other button (bluetooth something) and that has nothing to do with this.

But my question would be:
what is the best framework/container to use for my interface so i can seemlessly move from one content piece to the next and maintain full screen?
(-i don't know how to make processing applet full screen for starters)

Please advise if I am in the wrong forum

Zakski

Re: Color Box (wii infrared) content
Reply #1 - Feb 10^th, 2010, 5:44am

private void fullscreen() {
GraphicsEnvironment e = GraphicsEnvironment
.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
GraphicsDevice d[] = e.getScreenDevices();
int width = d[0].getDisplayMode().getWidth();
int height = d[0].getDisplayMode().getHeight();
size(width, height);
}

public void init() {
if (frame != null) {
frame.removeNotify();// make the frame not displayable
frame.setResizable(false);
frame.setUndecorated(true);
println("frame is at " + frame.getLocation());
frame.addNotify();
}
super.init();
}

public void setup() {
this.fullscreen();
}

This is modified open source code that someone else wrote on a website somewhere that i have been playing around with. I should make the application go to full screen on your primary display.

gabecolors

Re: Color Box (wii infrared) content
Reply #2 - Feb 16^th, 2010, 4:07pm

Thanks Zakski.

The primary issue I am having is NEXT. how to let users get to the next screen-- in the currrent state of content, a mouseover in the upper left gets us to the next set of content.
i'd love for this to be a button-- not a digital button- a real button that you press with your finger, maybe it blue tooth talk to the computer...

http://acolorbox.com/2010content/10.html

photos of a color box here:
http://acolorbox.com/blog

WebDext

Re: Color Box (wii infrared) content
Reply #3 - Mar 17^th, 2010, 8:49am

An easy way to integrate physical buttons & knobs is using an Arduino micro-controller. You can talk to it in processing with a serial connection over USB and just have it report which buttons are pressed or not pressed. Another cool thing is that you can easily hook up several LED's for feedback on the button pad itself.

Otherwise, if you don't feel like tinkering with electronics, these make cool plug and play input devices:
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/powermate

Jack

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