PDA

View Full Version : I Need Help Writing a Program



jem5136
08-11-2010, 01:36 PM
Hey guys,
For the past couple weeks I have been lingering around the idea of having my show animated to video(probably not this year, but next year) and I would love to use Vixen to accomplish this(I have LSP and LOR, but I already have it set up in Vixen), but unfortunately Vixen does not have options for video like LSP and LOR do.

So here is what I am wanting. I want to create a .dll file that I can use with Vixen. It would be part of the plug in>output file (in 2.1). I have a vision of what I wan it to look like, but I have no idea how to make it happen.

It would work something like this.
In Vixen, add the Video Player(or whatever I want to call it) to the output plug ins, and in the settings have a screen that has the option to display audio visualizers(for a sequence that does not have video, only audio; an option to play it full screen, or windowed, an option to select which monitor to play the video on, an option to choose an image to appear if there is not a video playing, and obviously an option where someone can browse for their video.

Does anyone know of any websites that I could use to learn a little about programing something like this. I just downloaded Visual Basic Express 2010. I am going to start playing around with it.

Any help would be very much appreciated

Or even if anyone would like to see something like this work with vixen.

Thanks,
Jesse

soakes94
08-12-2010, 07:12 AM
Sounds good :), I would be looking for it to be able to change a text file as well so then I can have a computer on the same network monitor the text file and then play the video on that computer, my plan would be to have the computer running vixen in one place and then have a computer to play the video away from the vixen computer but they would be connected by a wireless network. I've made a program that could do that, I just need to get it to work with vixen. If you need any help with vb 2010 let me know Ive been using it for a while and have some basic knowledge of it, nothing deep lol

David_AVD
08-12-2010, 09:10 AM
Maybe get the plugin to send telnet messages to another app? This way the video / visualiser can be on any machine in the network.

soakes94
08-12-2010, 10:39 AM
Maybe get the plugin to send telnet messages to another app? This way the video / visualiser can be on any machine in the network.

Sounds good, Ive never used telnet and since I'm only a beginner at programming I worked around the problems and used a text file as a place where the 2 computer could talk