I wanted to display the text while sound is playing at background. In short if there is sound/audio for "What is this", I want to display the text "What is this" in text box synchronously. Is this possible with XNA/XACT? and can I use this in standard C# based WPF or Silverlight applications?
Appreciating your help.
I'm not sure if xna has any build in support for this but you could set up a second meta file that holds time and action information. For example mark a time for each word or phase spaken in a file and write out the text at the appropriate time.
same way as when making subtitles for movies. example:
00:02 Who are you?
00:05 An angel.
00:07 What's your name?
compare movie time with this, and show messages in texbox with some duration.
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Im trying to make a game on Scratch that will use a feature to generate a special code, and when that code is input into a certain area it will load the stats that were there when the code was generated. I've run into a problem however, I don't know how to make it and I couldn't find a clear cut answer for how to make it.
I would prefer that the solution be:
Able to save information for as long as needed (from 1 second to however long until it's input again.)
Doesn't take too many blocks to make, so that the project won't take forever to load it.
Of course i'm willing to take any solution in order to get my game up and running, those are just preferences.
You can put all of the programs in a custom block with "Run without screen refresh" on so that the program runs instantly.
If you save the stats using variables, you could combine those variable values into one string divided by /s. i.e. join([highscore]) (join("/") (join([kills]) (/))
NOTE: Don't add any "/" in your stats, you can probably guess why.
Now "bear" (pun) with me, this is going to take a while to read
Then you need the variables:
[read] for reading the inputted code
[input] for storing the numbers
Then you could make another function that reads the code like so: letter ([read]) of (code) and stores that information to the [input] variable like this: set [input] to (letter ([read]) of (code)). Then change [read] by (1) so the function can read the next character of the code. Once it letter ([read]) of (code) equals "/", this tells the program to set [*stat variable*] to (input) (in our example, this would be [highscore] since it was the first variable we saved) and set [input] to (0), and repeat again until all of the stats variables are filled (In this case, it repeats 2 times because we saved two variables: [highscore] and [kills]).
This is the least amount of code that it takes. Jumbling it up takes more code. I will later edit this answer with a screenshot showcasing whatever I just said before, hopefully clearing up the mess of words above.
The technique you mentioned is used in many scratch games but there is two option for you when making the save/load system. You can either do it the simpler way which makes the code SUPER long(not joking). The other way is most scratchers use, encoding the data into a string as short as possible so it's easy to transfer.
If you want to do the second way, you can have a look at griffpatch's video on the mario platformer remake where he used a encode system to save levels.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRtlrBnX-dY The tips is to encode your data (maybe score/items name/progress) into numbers and letters for example converting repeated letters to a shorter string which the game can still decode and read without errors
If you are worried it took too long to load, I am pretty sure it won't be a problem unless you really save a big load of data. The common compress method used by everyone works pretty well. If you want more data stored you may have to think of some other method. There is not an actual way to do that as different data have different unique methods for things working the best. Good luck.
I am trying to write my first script in MQL4 and had hopefully a few basic questions.
1) I am aware that I can write a script and drag and drop it on a symbol window to execute the script. I was wondering though if there was a way to reference a symbol window through the code?
Is it just like the code below,
WindowHandle("EURUSD", PERIOD_M1)
2) Is there anyway to specify the time horizon of a symbol window. For example say I want the symbol window to show me the EURUSD 1 minute data from 4th March 2012 10:10 am to 4th December 2012 4pm? Can you also specify the number of bars to show on the chart at anyone time?
3) Can you draw a line on the chart using a script? I think I read you cannot - that you would need to write a custom indicator? I understand using a script however that you can annotate the chart with a text object though.
A3: Yes, you can
A2: No, any code is sub-ordinated to the pre-set MT4.Graph instance
In other words, your code ( any MQL4 ( well, valid as far as Build 711 )) cannot moderate the outer-container ( the MT4.Graph ), be it zoom, Y-scale, changing it's Period and other "given" features, some of which may be editable by user ( but not by the code )
A1: No, but ... might be you read about some
This is rather dangerous zone. Imagine a MT4 Terminal, that has a live-session, if there were such WindowHandle( "EURUSD", PERIOD_M1 ) and if there were six graphs for [EURUSD,M1]. Which way should the identification / execution follow? No, this is left intentionally as a "Human-step", because executing any kind of code is associated with risks and may create huge if not fatal losses ( as the code runs blind and deaf and VERY FAST ).
While there are some dirty techniques to identify/swap MT4-"window" these techniques are highly dependent on O/S services. For normal use, I would dare rely on any of those I have read about so far.
in my code i am using 2 AVAudioRecorder one for monitoring the audio and another one for recording. In that recording is good but problem is the second recorder can't able to record the first 2 words or 2 sec. sample like this suppose i am say like "hi how are you" means it will record the "are you" words. http://purplelilgirl.tumblr.com/post/9377269385/making-that-talking-app with use of this tutorial only i wrote the recording functionality to my code. any one facing this same issue. let me know please regarding on this.
I think you should keep recording it all the time with low or high threshold, what you need to do is just, start playing from time when your lowPassResults exceeds to 0.5 in case ajDanny's example.
I have a YouTube Video (which was NOT uploaded by myself) with 50 min length:
The video talks about different contents, each content starts at different time for example:
content_x starts # 0minutes : 0Seconds
content_y starts #10minutes : 0Seconds
..etc
Now I would like to divide these contents according as hyperlink such that if i would like to watch any section, I can just click this link in the respective time (minutes & seconds).
I would prefer to do that in the description part for the YouTube video or in "About Section" so can you guide me how to do that? or any other simpler idea on how to reach different video contents in YouTube in dynamic and descriptive way?
You can append the time you want to the end of the youtube link
Eg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXX#t=31m08s
where 31m08s represents 31 minutes 8 seconds.
Similarly you can make links for the rest of the sections you want
Check this site : www.youtubetime.com it will generate a Youtube link with a specific starting time. Alternatively, tou can just write your time separated by spaces in a video's description (e.g.
very long description 0:00 part 1 1:00 part 2
etc... or you can write a comment with these time links and use it as an "index".
Hope that I've answered your question.
Right click the video and select Copy video URL at current time.
Then paste it anywhere.
I am searching for ideas/examples on how to store path patterns from users - with the goal of analysing their behaviours and optimizing on "most used path" when we can detect them somehow.
Eg. which action do they do after what, so that we later on can check to see if certain actions are done over and over again - therefore developing a shortcut or assembling some of the actions into a combined multiaction.
My first guess would be some sort of "simple log", perhaps stored in some SQL-manner, where we can keep each action as an index and then just record everything.
Problem is that the path/action might be dynamically changed - even while logging - so we need to be able to take care of this fact too, when looking for patterns later.
Would you log everthing "bigtime" first and then POST-process every bit of details after some time or do you have great experience with other tactics?
My worry is that this is going to take up space, BIG TIME while logging 1000 users each day for a month or more.
Hope this makes sense and I am curious to see if anyone can provide sample code, pseudocode or perhaps links to something usefull.
Our tools will be C#, SQL-database, XML and .NET 3.5 - clients could also get .NET 4.0 if needed.
Patterns examples as we expect them
...
User #1001: A-B-A-A-A-B-C-E-F-G-H-A-A-A-C-B-A
User #1002: B-A-A-B-C-E-F
User #1003: F-B-B-A-E-C-A-A-A
User #1002: C-E-F
...
etc. no real way to know what they do next nor how many they will use, how often they will do it.
A secondary goal, if possible, if we later on add a new "action" called G (just sample to illustrate, there will be hundreds of actions) how could we detect these new behaviours influence on the previous patterns.
To explain it better, my thought here would be some way to detect "patterns within patterns", sort of like how compressions work, so that "repeative patterns" are spottet. We dont know how long these patterns might be, nor how often they might come. How do we break this down into "small bits and pieces" - whats the best approach you think?
I am not sure what you mean by path, but, if you gave every action in a path a unique symbol, you could reduce the problem to longest common substring or subsequence.
Or have a map of paths to the number of times that action occurred. Every time a certain path happens, increment the count for that path. Then sort to find the most common.
Pseudo idea/implementation so far
Log ever users action into a list/series of actions, bulk kinda style (textfiles/SQL - what ever, just store the whole thing for post-processing)
start counting every "1 action", "2 actions", "3 actions" up til a certain amount (lets say 30 levels)
sort them all, by giving values of importants to some of the actions (might be those producing end results)
A usefull result perhaps?
If we count all [A], [A-A], [A-B], [A-C], [A-A-A], [A-A-B] etc. its going to make a LONG and fine list of which actions are used in row frequently, and thats in the right direction, because if some of these results gets too high, we might need a shorter path. Problem is then, whats too few actions to be optimized and whats the longest needed actionlist to search for? My guess is that we need to do this counting first, then examine the numbers.
Problem is that this would be part of an analyzing tool we are developing and we dont have data until implementation, so we dont know what to look for before its actually done. hmm... wondering if there really IS an answer to this one.