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need help with strings -- making "karaoke"

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- 03-Jun-2013 04:30 PM
- Forum: Programming Questions
hi --

i'm quite new to processing, but have a university class where we have to use it for a project. i have collected lyrics from songs, divided these into six categories (emotions: energetic, happy, relaxed, melancholic, stressed + sleepy). the lyrics are in individual .txt files. using minim to import songs for background music.

i want to make an applet that lets you select an emotion, and get a new (randomly generated) song with random lines of lyrics from the array of songs with the chosen emotion.

i am in serious need of some help here; with several things:

1 // can i make a "front page" where you can click on happy, which then opens up a new "page" with the song?

2 // is there a quick way to load several strings at a time? have about 40 of them, as you can see below.

3 // how do i time the lyrics? they can (at least for now) be the same amount of time. using framerate now, which kind of works, but there's a long pause before it starts. don' know how to use mills(), but could that be something?

4 // is there a way that i can have a set of "presets" for each emotion -- like background color and image?

help with anything would be GREATLY appreciated -- thanks!

sorry about the mess, but this is what the script looks like now:

PFont lanefont, satellite, dashfont;

String[][] happy, melancholic, relaxed, sleepy, stressed, energized;

PImage beach, surf, boom, neon, floral, frame;

import ddf.minim.*;

AudioPlayer player;

Minim minim;

void setup () {

size (800, 800);

background (0);

smooth();

frameRate(0.15);

minim = new Minim(this);

player = minim.loadFile ("melancholic.mp3", 500); // melancholic

player.play();

lanefont = loadFont ("Lane-Narrow-48.vlw");

satellite = loadFont ("Satellite-Oblique-48.vlw");

dashfont = loadFont ("PrintDashed-48.vlw");

beach = loadImage ("beach.jpg"); // relaxed

surf = loadImage ("surf.jpg"); // happy

boom = loadImage ("boom.jpg"); // stressed

neon = loadImage ("neon.jpg"); // energized

floral = loadImage ("floral.jpg"); // melancholic

frame = loadImage ("frame.jpg"); // sleepy

}

void draw() {

String header [] = {"I M P R O V I S E D", "H A P P Y ", "M E L A N C H O L I C",

"R E L A X E D", "E N E R G I Z E D", "S T R E S S E D", "S L E E P Y"};

// background (241, 163, 189); // happy pink

background (145, 165, 145); // melancholic green

// background (255, 247, 0); // energized yellow

// background (0, 108, 255); // relaxed blue

// background (255, 5, 5); // stressed red

// background (116, 56, 222); // sleepy purple

tint (255, 10);

image (floral, 0, -100, 800, 1000);

stroke (241, 163, 189);

strokeCap (PROJECT);

strokeWeight (2.5);

line (28, 60, 230, 60);

textFont (lanefont, 35);

textAlign (CENTER);

fill(0);

text ("K A R A O K E", 129, 100);

textFont (dashfont, 25);

text (header[2], 129, 135);

stroke (0);

triangle (129, 182, 120, 165, 138, 165);

String t1[] = loadStrings ("1.txt");

String t2[] = loadStrings ("2.txt");

String t3[] = loadStrings ("3.txt");

String t4[] = loadStrings ("4.txt");

String t5[] = loadStrings ("5.txt");

String t6[] = loadStrings ("6.txt");

String t7[] = loadStrings ("7.txt");

// String t8[] = loadStrings ("8.txt");

// String t9[] = loadStrings ("9.txt");

String t10[] = loadStrings ("10.txt");

String t11[] = loadStrings ("11.txt");

String t12[] = loadStrings ("12.txt");

String t13[] = loadStrings ("13.txt");

String t14[] = loadStrings ("14.txt");

String t15[] = loadStrings ("15.txt");

String t16[] = loadStrings ("16.txt");

String t17[] = loadStrings ("17.txt");

String t18[] = loadStrings ("18.txt");

String t19[] = loadStrings ("19.txt");

String t20[] = loadStrings ("20.txt");

String t21[] = loadStrings ("21.txt");

String t22[] = loadStrings ("22.txt");

String t23[] = loadStrings ("23.txt");

String t24[] = loadStrings ("24.txt");

String t25[] = loadStrings ("25.txt");

String t26[] = loadStrings ("26.txt");

// String t27[] = loadStrings ("27.txt");

String t28[] = loadStrings ("28.txt");

String t29[] = loadStrings ("29.txt");

String t30[] = loadStrings ("30.txt");

String t31[] = loadStrings ("31.txt");

String t32[] = loadStrings ("32.txt");

String t33[] = loadStrings ("33.txt");

String t34[] = loadStrings ("34.txt");

String t35[] = loadStrings ("35.txt");

String t36[] = loadStrings ("36.txt");

String t37[] = loadStrings ("37.txt");

String[][] happy = {t2, t4, t5, t6, t19, t20, t21, t22, t23};

String[][] melancholic = {t26, t14, t13, t7, t1, t15, t2, t4, t5, t6, t19, t20, t21, t22, t23};

String[][] relaxed = {t10, t11, t24, t30, t31, t36, t37};

String[][] stressed = {t12};

String[][] energized = {t3, t4, t16, t17, t18, t28, t29, t33, t34, t35};

String[][] sleepy = {t25};

int xpos = width/2;

int ypos = height/2;

for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++) {

fill (255);

textFont (satellite, 30);

textAlign (CENTER, CENTER);

text (melancholic[int(random(melancholic.length))][int(random(10))], xpos, ypos);

ypos = ypos+50;

}

}

void stop() {

player.close();

minim.stop();

super.stop();

}

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