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#2601 2010-05-17 04:20:23

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Re: Panther development thread

why do people sleep? I missed SO MUCH! thank you all for the many, many suggestions, it's just what we need. I like the idea of more stuff in the "meet the developers"  section, I'll add my bio in a sec. I'm sorry about all the spelling errors, that's what you get for not checking, and writing in notepad, which does not have spellchecker. I'll update the tos to a slightly more presentable state when I have a mo. Still, at least it suggests people are actully reading it, rather than just downloading. (You may notice that parts of the tos were nicked from the scratch one, and if some scratch guy could check that we have fullfilled all the requirements set out by their tos, I would appreciate that.)


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#2602 2010-05-17 04:58:13

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Re: Panther development thread

Oh, one person mentioned in a glitch report that the camera connection wasn't working, you were just getting a transparant costume. Here's why (I think) the block runs faster than the camera can cope, try putting a [wait(0.01)secs] block in with your camera feed loop. (you can see an example of this in the sample projects.)


O_o I just looked at our site stats for yesterday, 998 unique visitors and over 2000 site views in total! ... WOW.

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#2603 2010-05-17 08:44:06

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Re: Panther development thread

rossyboyfilm wrote:

Sperry wrote:

Please do not spam

Hi Sam it's ross im in the library which room are you in?

Ermmm? That is not really related to the topic. But I am in the Careers Library.

Back on topic:

What do yoiu think about Panther? Any suggestions for new features?


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#2604 2010-05-17 08:55:12

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Re: Panther development thread

rossyboyfilm wrote:

Sperry wrote:

rossyboyfilm wrote:


Hi Sam it's ross im in the library which room are you in?

Ermmm? That is not really related to the topic. But I am in the Careers Library.

Back on topic:

What do yoiu think about Panther? Any suggestions for new features?

Careers? I'll be there in a minute...

THIS IS NOT A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE!!!!!
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#2605 2010-05-17 10:48:20

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Re: Panther development thread

Hey development, what are you doing with the bugs as  I have submitted alot of them and no chnage yet.


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#2606 2010-05-17 10:51:14

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Re: Panther development thread

we can't just change the image every time someone wants us to, we're updating our personal image with the bug fixes, and once we think we have it more or less sorted, we will release it in one go.


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#2607 2010-05-17 10:54:48

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Re: Panther development thread

johnnydean1 wrote:

Hey development, what are you doing with the bugs as  I have submitted alot of them and no chnage yet.

Well... Im looking through them and a lot I can't reproduce...


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#2608 2010-05-17 10:59:41

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Re: Panther development thread

climber59 wrote:

No, I meant like defining a filepath with a costume block and then having it load that costume without a dialog box.

I think, that isn't able, but you can open a user-defined block at the start. Just replace the "default.sprite" in the Panther block with your sprite file.

And I have a plan how to hack panther  smile


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#2609 2010-05-17 11:01:38

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Re: Panther development thread

meew0 wrote:

climber59 wrote:

No, I meant like defining a filepath with a costume block and then having it load that costume without a dialog box.

I think, that isn't able, but you can open a user-defined block at the start. Just replace the "default.sprite" in the Panther block with your sprite file.

And I have a plan how to hack panther  smile

Please tell...


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#2610 2010-05-17 11:04:00

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Re: Panther development thread

Open the block code with right-click on the block opens the browser. Then I'll add a bit to the menu build methods, which saves the image. I can open the block to open the browser, and I can save the image with the new menu entry  smile


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#2611 2010-05-17 11:13:35

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Re: Panther development thread

meew0 wrote:

Open the block code with right-click on the block opens the browser. Then I'll add a bit to the menu build methods, which saves the image. I can open the block to open the browser, and I can save the image with the new menu entry  smile

Thats not the browsers though.  tongue


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#2612 2010-05-17 11:15:21

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Re: Panther development thread

markyparky56 wrote:

rossyboyfilm wrote:

Sperry wrote:


Ermmm? That is not really related to the topic. But I am in the Careers Library.

Back on topic:

What do yoiu think about Panther? Any suggestions for new features?

Careers? I'll be there in a minute...

THIS IS NOT A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE!!!!!
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Markyparky I'm really sorry It's just in school I wanted to tell Sam how great Panther is sorry!


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#2613 2010-05-17 11:17:23

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Re: Panther development thread

How to  get camera working


When Flag Clicked
Do with Camera open
|forever
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|--------------
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And leave that as a single script.


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#2614 2010-05-17 11:19:21

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Re: Panther development thread

To Sparks (mainly)

I was wondering if you've used/tried my Panther Installer yet. I know It might now work as well on macs as there are a hell of a lot of mac users here, but you could have a download link for windows. I know you've been busy with bug fixes ect, yesterday and today, but please get back to me. The link's http://www.mediafire.com/?wdw2gvdzvzi..


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#2615 2010-05-17 11:22:11

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Re: Panther development thread

markyparky56 wrote:

meew0 wrote:

Open the block code with right-click on the block opens the browser. Then I'll add a bit to the menu build methods, which saves the image. I can open the block to open the browser, and I can save the image with the new menu entry  smile

Thats not the browsers though.  tongue

http://imgur.com/GJiLB.png

What do you think? That's the message for rebuilding the file menu.  tongue


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#2616 2010-05-17 11:23:37

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Re: Panther development thread

johnnydean1 wrote:

How to  get camera working


When Flag Clicked
Do with Camera open
|forever
||
|--------------
-----------------------------------

And leave that as a single script.

I do it a different way.
And that way doesn't work that well, as compared to my camera script.
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/8504/webcamscript.gif


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#2617 2010-05-17 11:32:42

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Re: Panther development thread

bharvey wrote:

paulpsicle wrote:

I use mac -- could that be a problem?

On my MacBook Pro, I can read files in my directory by using absolute paths, e.g., /Users/bh/foo.  But attempts to write, with either absolute or relative paths, end up in the great bit bucket in the sky.

The exact same thing happens for me.


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#2618 2010-05-17 11:46:39

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Re: Panther development thread

meew0 wrote:

markyparky56 wrote:

meew0 wrote:

Open the block code with right-click on the block opens the browser. Then I'll add a bit to the menu build methods, which saves the image. I can open the block to open the browser, and I can save the image with the new menu entry  smile

Thats not the browsers though.  tongue

http://imgur.com/GJiLB.png

What do you think? That's the message for rebuilding the file menu.  tongue

How did you do that!?


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#2619 2010-05-17 11:51:28

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Re: Panther development thread

markyparky56 wrote:

johnnydean1 wrote:

How to  get camera working


When Flag Clicked
Do with Camera open
|forever
||
|--------------
-----------------------------------

And leave that as a single script.

I do it a different way.
And that way doesn't work that well, as compared to my camera script.
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/8504/webcamscript.gif

actually, that way, you end up with one photo ever two seconds, one second to open the camera at the start loop, then 0.01 secs to take the photo, then another second to close the camera. You're better off putting the forever inside the dowith loop and that way you will get about 3FPS. (6X faster) (you'll need a [wait(0.01)secs] block in the loop too.)

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#2620 2010-05-17 11:57:31

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Re: Panther development thread

sparks wrote:

markyparky56 wrote:

johnnydean1 wrote:

How to  get camera working


When Flag Clicked
Do with Camera open
|forever
||
|--------------
-----------------------------------

And leave that as a single script.

I do it a different way.
And that way doesn't work that well, as compared to my camera script.
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/8504 … script.gif

actually, that way, you end up with one photo ever two seconds, one second to open the camera at the start loop, then 0.01 secs to take the photo, then another second to close the camera. You're better off putting the forever inside the dowith loop and that way you will get about 3FPS. (6X faster) (you'll need a [wait(0.01)secs] block in the loop too.)

I get about 1 second frames actualy.
Wait, your ways quicker...

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#2621 2010-05-17 11:59:41

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Re: Panther development thread

markyparky56 wrote:

sparks wrote:

markyparky56 wrote:


I do it a different way.
And that way doesn't work that well, as compared to my camera script.
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/8504 … script.gif

actually, that way, you end up with one photo ever two seconds, one second to open the camera at the start loop, then 0.01 secs to take the photo, then another second to close the camera. You're better off putting the forever inside the dowith loop and that way you will get about 3FPS. (6X faster) (you'll need a [wait(0.01)secs] block in the loop too.)

I get about 1 second frames actualy.
Wait, your ways quicker...

just look at my webcam project in the sample projects folder to see how I did mine.


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#2622 2010-05-17 12:14:56

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Re: Panther development thread

I am currently working on a project similar to the PS2 Eyetoy or PS3 Eyepet. It will know where the player is using colours of pixels.


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#2623 2010-05-17 12:15:49

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Re: Panther development thread

markyparky56 wrote:

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/8504/webcamscript.gif

This doesn't work on my MacBook Pro.  It blinks the LED next to the camera, but doesn't actually change the background.  Sparks's way does work for me.


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#2624 2010-05-17 12:18:00

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Re: Panther development thread

Why is Panther soooo slow!!!


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#2625 2010-05-17 12:18:48

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Re: Panther development thread

bharvey wrote:

This doesn't work on my MacBook Pro.  It blinks the LED next to the camera, but doesn't actually change the background.  Sparks's way does work for me.

Wierd how a small change makes a big difference. Wow  big_smile

Ready for your big conversation?!  smile


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