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brt
building an app to show other apps
May 4th, 2010, 1:35pm  
Hello! I've just finished my Multi-touch table and I wanted to make an application that gathered all my "generative art" apps that i've made in a way that people can watch it or interact with them.

So in a way there would be a main screen with some buttons and then when you pressed them you would go to my apps...

the thing is, i wanted my interface to be really cool and wanted transitions between screens and buttons flying in and stuff...

So is Processing the right program to do this?
all of my other sketches are processing.

if it's the right program can someone send me in a direction of some programs done like this ( preferably with the source code so i can learn from it)

if not what program would be right to be able to launch java applications made in processing from there?

sorry if i'm asking too much but it's my first project like this!
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andrewowaun
Re: building an app to show other apps
Reply #1 - May 4th, 2010, 9:06pm  
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Sketch Browser should help.
http://openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=8251
Bit.craft came up with this awesome piece of code. It already allows you to select any sketch in sequence.

With minimal modification you can adjust it to select randomly or even simultaneously.

The current template version will be used for the Processing Combined Effort posted here
http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/num_1266418665.html
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brt
Re: building an app to show other apps
Reply #2 - May 5th, 2010, 3:50am  
thanks andrewowaun a lot! that was really cool! as i understood the diferent programs are just put into classes and then the program calls them when ever it wants right?

you haven't answered the part of Is processing the right program to do those transitions and fly in and stuf?
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John_Doe
Re: building an app to show other apps
Reply #3 - May 5th, 2010, 9:03am  
You could also look into using MT4j (http://www.mt4j.org).
Its a multitouch framework which uses processing underneath. You can easily convert your sketches to run in mt4j and create animated multi touch GUIs. It also allows to run different scenes (similar to sketches) at the same time and switch between them using cool transition effects.
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brt
Re: building an app to show other apps
Reply #4 - May 5th, 2010, 11:26am  
thanks a lot john doe! i'm going to look into it!
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brt
Re: building an app to show other apps
Reply #5 - May 5th, 2010, 11:36am  
it doesn't run on mac does it? :s
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Smitty
Re: building an app to show other apps
Reply #6 - May 5th, 2010, 12:00pm  
My napplet library is designed to handle multiple sketches in a single window.  It's easy to use, but it's lacking the bells and whistles you'd probably like.  (At least for now.)
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John_Doe
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Reply #7 - May 5th, 2010, 5:08pm  
MT4j also runs on Mac. Its just not tested on mac but many people have used it on macs.
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brt
Re: building an app to show other apps
Reply #8 - May 5th, 2010, 5:46pm  
Oh Wink ok I'm going to try it! thanks! Its kind of new to me tho... never programmed outside of processing! lol
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