development

[warm sleet]

and an ArrayList is like an array, but its can automatically resize itself

[spring pond]

^

since you want to sort by goals you could use something like quick sort, insertion sort, selection sort, or any other algo

[warm sleet]

wat

@spring pond bro

let me enlighten you

[quick meadow]

Man

I need help with ue4

[warm sleet]

https://i.imgur.com/4eDKX30.png

[quick meadow]

[warm sleet]

@spring pond https://i.imgur.com/aRSDJ7Z.png

java has a much different sorting algo

and if you have other datastructures, what you'll find, is that it uses a different algorithm depending on the size of the list

[spring pond]

oh i saw tim sort when i was looking up algos

didnt really know what it was

[warm sleet]

@spring pond every List inherits this:

    default void sort(Comparator<? super E> c) {
        Object[] a = this.toArray();
        Arrays.sort(a, (Comparator) c);
        ListIterator<E> i = this.listIterator();
        for (Object e : a) {
            i.next();
            i.set((E) e);
        }
    }

and that Tim Sort

is that code I just showed you, thats Arrays.sort()

[exotic jungle]

hello, there is this script that i wont to be activated with autoit, if I double click the left mouse button. Ihave found this HotKeySet ( "key" [, "function"] )

how can i put this in a script ??

[warm sleet]

@spring pond if you have intellij, you can just ctrl click on a type from the standard library

and itll just show you the source code

so you can figure out how java does this stuff

[spring pond]

yeah ik

[warm sleet]

lol my first embedded project, I built a serial protocol

in essence, I built an RGB controller

[spring pond]

nice

[warm sleet]

that could dim 512 channels between values of 0-255

lemme see if I can find the screenshot of the UI

[spring pond]

@exotic jungle i dont really know much about autoit, but i'd recommend ahk for stuff like key-based scripting if you are still just starting out

https://www.autohotkey.com/

[warm sleet]

@spring pond https://i.imgur.com/tV0aMYJ.png

[spring pond]

forms project i see

[warm sleet]

yeah the hardware was in C

and the UI was with WinForms

[spring pond]

cool

[warm sleet]

and they communicated over usb serial

[spring pond]

i think i messed around with serial a little while ago, definitely not my favorite thing to code for lol

[warm sleet]

xD

[exotic jungle]

I know about that but I am looking to us a autoit script that activats an other script when a key combo is pressed. @spring pond

[warm sleet]

@spring pond .NET actually has an ok API

        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of a SerialConnector. Can be used to communicate with an Arduino with DMX shield.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="port">The COM port</param>
        /// <param name="speed">The speed in baud</param>
        public SerialConnector(string port, int speed)
        {
            this._port = port;
            this._baudrate = speed;
            //Initialize serial port
            _serial = new SerialPort(port, speed, Parity.None, 8, StopBits.One); 
            //Add event handler to print an error from arduino
            _serial.DataReceived += new SerialDataReceivedEventHandler(_serial_DataReceived);
            _serial.Open();

            //Start thread to handle requests and timing.
            _connection = new Thread(new ThreadStart(HandleRequests));
            _connection.Start();
        }

you just have an event handler

that handles incoming data

[spring pond]

i was a bit obsessed with c++ at the time so i used the qt serial stuff

i just starting using c# for more stuff and it is a very nice lang

[warm sleet]

@spring pond I use DMX for the lighting controller

        /// <summary>
        /// Sends a dmx request through the serial port, it will must be ran on a seperate thread.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="channel">The channel that is affected</param>
        /// <param name="fixture">The fixture of the affected channel</param>
        /// <param name="instruction">The instruction for the request, valid instructions are: Set, Clear.</param>
        private void DmxSend(ushort channel, byte fixture, Instruction instruction) {
            if (channel > 512) throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("channel", channel, "Channel has to be in DMX Spectrum, 1-512");
            switch (instruction)
            {
                case Instruction.Set:
                    byte[] chan = BitConverter.GetBytes(channel);
                    byte[] message = { (byte)instruction, chan[0], chan[1], fixture, (byte)Instruction.Stop };
                    _serial.Write(message, 0, message.Length);
                    UpdateBuffer(channel, fixture);
                    break;
                case Instruction.Stop:
                    throw new ArgumentException("Invalid instruction", "instruction");
                case Instruction.Clear:
                    _serial.Write(_clearMessage, 0, _clearMessage.Length);
                    _localDmx.Clear();
                    break;
            }
        }

[spring pond]

well i cant really help with autoit but gl

[warm sleet]

@spring pond oh I lied

it was C++

[exotic jungle]

okay then thanks anyway

[warm sleet]

whelp, its arduino

#include <DmxSimple.h>

int dmxMessage [3] = { 0, 0, 0};

const unsigned int MAX_CHANNEL = 7;

void setup() {
  initializeSerial(9600);
  DmxSimple.maxChannel(MAX_CHANNEL);
  
}

void loop() {
  if (!handleSerial(dmxMessage)) return;

  switch (dmxMessage[0]) {
  case 2: //SET
    DmxSimple.write(dmxMessage[1], dmxMessage[2]);
    break;
  case 3: //CLEAR
    for (int i = 1; i <= MAX_CHANNEL; i++) {
      DmxSimple.write(i, 0);
    }
  }
}

xD

  //Instruction
  byte data = Serial.read();
  switch(data) {
    //53 = S (SET)
  case SET: 
    message[0] = 2;
    break;
  case CLEAR:
    message[0] = 3;
    break;
  default:
    clearSerial();
    return false;
  }

  //Channel
  byte ch1 = Serial.read();
  byte ch2 = Serial.read();
  int channel = ch1 + (ch2 << 8);
  //Fixture
  byte fixture = Serial.read();

  //Stop
  if (Serial.read() != STOP) {
    Serial.print("ERR");
    Serial.println();
    clearSerial();
    return false;
  }

  message[1] = channel;
  message[2] = fixture;

most of this is quite mundane

but yeah, bytes not so scary after all

[spring pond]

well handling serial on the device end wasn't too hard for me, it was doing it on the client side and doing it in a somewhat automatic fashion that was difficult

[warm sleet]

@spring pond for this other project

we had a rpi with 4 sensor modules connected over usb

and I had to make some feature that could autodiscover what device it was

[prime bough]

I'm started using Zig and it's pretty good language

[warm sleet]

and it was designed to be flexible, support multiple baudrates

[warm sleet]

@spring pond https://imgur.com/HBahMYv

[spring pond]

i should really start flowcharting lol

[warm sleet]

this is an activity diagram

that black bar

is a fork node

so it does both at same time

sends magic data, and waits for a magic response

[spring pond]

makes sense

[warm sleet]

those diamonds

are decision nodes

and each branch has a tag with a guard, that has the condition

ofc, this is all numbered, and there's a written description that goes with it

@spring pond formally, this is all UML

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Policy_Admin_Component_Diagram.PNG/1280px-Policy_Admin_Component_Diagram.PNG

once you get into more complicated systems

this stuff becomes useful

[spring pond]

yeah that looks complicated

[warm sleet]

@spring pond activity diagram and component diagrams are my favorites

those are the ones I primarily use to describe software

[warm sleet]

@paper cove https://github.com/boppreh/keyboard/blob/master/examples/pressed_keys.py

so this program defines a simple fuction called print_pressed_keys, think of this as a bit of code that you can ask your program to execute

and underneath on line 15

it hooks itself to the keyboard and every keystroke is then registered to that function

and all the information of the keystroke event, is in that variable e

"""
Prints the scan code of all currently pressed keys.
Updates on every keyboard event.
"""
import sys

sys.path.append('..')
import keyboard


def print_pressed_keys(e):
    line = ', '.join(str(code) for code in keyboard._pressed_events)
    # '\r' and end='' overwrites the previous line.
    # ' '*40 prints 40 spaces at the end to ensure the previous line is cleared.
    print('\n' + line, end='')
    print('\n')


keyboard.hook(print_pressed_keys)
keyboard.wait()

well

there's high level APIs that you should use

because then it works on all operating systems

python is full of libraries to do small simple things

one you know how to define a function

and know how to write basic procedural code its actually not that hard

maybe 1-2 days of fiddling around

if you've never done this stuff

thats how I started xD

I mostly use python for data processing

simple dataprocessing

when doing prototyping

[astral garnet]

hey.... anyone have any decent python tutorials for building a discord bot? i made one but it wont talk to me :<

[exotic jungle]

can someone help please, its autoit

HotKeySet("{ESC}", "_ExitScript")
While 1
If _IfPressed("02") Then
run ("AutoIt_Script_5.au3", ["C:\Users\JADI\Desktop"])
WEnd

the while 1 is not connected to the wend

[astral garnet]

so what are you asking? it reads "when key 2 is pressed run a specific script" ya?

[exotic jungle]

yes

the script is not runnnig

this is the original

#include <Misc.au3>
HotKeySet("{ESC}", "_ExitScript")
While 1
If _IsPressed("01") Then MsgBox(0, "Message", "Mouse Clicked")
WEnd
Func _ExitScript()
Exit
EndFunc

[astral garnet]

~LButton::
MouseGetPos, begin_x, begin_y
while GetKeyState("LButton")
{
MouseGetPos, x, y
ToolTip, % begin_x ", " begin_y "`n" Abs(begin_x-x) " x " Abs(begin_y-y)
Sleep, 10
}
ToolTip
return

close the loop in {}

[exotic jungle]

i won't to run it something like this

#include <Misc.au3>
HotKeySet("{ESC}", "_ExitScript")
While 1
If _IsPressed("02") Then run ("AutoIt_Script_5.au3", ["C:\Users\JADI\Desktop"])
WEnd
Func _ExitScript()
Exit
EndFunc

[astral garnet]

my example is from the site

[exotic jungle]

I am just looking for a script that runs in the background with autoit an when key combo is pressed a other script lauches.

[spring pond]

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html#a-minimal-bot

[astral garnet]

wait auto hot key or is autoit something else?

@spring pond thank you. idk why it wont talk to me 😐

such is my life 😐

[spring pond]

could be a problem with your tokens

[exotic jungle]

autoit is a like program to auto hot key

Hey if you can make it happen with autohotkey please help

just looking for a script that runs in the background an when key combo is pressed a other script lauches.

[spring pond]

~LButton::
    If (A_ThisHotkey = A_PriorHotkey and A_TimeSincePriorHotkey < 200)
        Run [put your command here]
Return

not tested

but should work

[exotic jungle]

while this loop, so that everytime i press keycombo it runs the script?

[spring pond]

this is for a double click

[exotic jungle]

oh nice

[spring pond]

fsr thats what i thought you needed, but you can rewrite it to work with any combo

[exotic jungle]

is this correct ??

@spring pond ?

[astral garnet]

that looks right but i know auto hotkey not autoit

[exotic jungle]

is there a why to do this in autohotkey

$target_window = "2.txt - Kladblok"
$source_window = "1.txt - Kladblok"
; end of user input
WinActivate($target_window, "")
WinWaitActive($target_window, "")
sleep (100)
Send("^v")
sleep (200)
WinActivate($source_window, "")
WinWaitActive($source_window, "")

also can there be a copy cmd being instead in the other script so when i double click the copy of the text is made and then it launches the other script

???

@astral garnet

[astral garnet]

Send, {CTRLDOWN}c{CTRLUP} eh?

[spring pond]

@exotic jungle remove the brackets

[exotic jungle]

I did this

~LButton::
If (A_ThisHotkey = A_PriorHotkey and A_TimeSincePriorHotkey < 200)
Run, "C:\Users\JADI\Desktop\AutoIt_Script_5.au3"
Return

@spring pond how do I make it copy the selected text as I double click??

[spring pond]

you just read from the %Clipboard% variable

wait

nvm

unsure

i havent use ahk in a while

[charred blade]

Anyone here has experience with blender? :/

[midnight wind]

@charred blade yeah kinda

[charred blade]

@midnight wind any idea how can I extract the material from an already make .blend file? I have some exports from valorant and I want to change the weapons color but I have no idea how to export only the image

[midnight wind]

huh

I don't really understand

so the texture?

That would be better to do in photoshop/substance painter/quixel mixer

[charred blade]

i'm referring at this

[midnight wind]

yeah so the texure

I see it is already UV mapped so t hat's good

@charred blade so open the image in image editor

[charred blade]

like this?

[midnight wind]

no

actually idk

been a while since I used blender

@charred blade https://youtu.be/v7vdpiPV-3E?t=412

[bleak breach]

Thought y'all might like this video I found in my twitter timeline:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjEUzCpyWGA

UE4 using niagra

[tired juniper]

hey how do I align text anyway I want in CSS? I mean I know the transform:translate works but for the entire enclosure the text is in,if it's in a table with borders around it just doesn't work. Is there some way to apply it to text only in a table?

i tried it on the TH element but this moves the whole thing not just the text,the border with it moves as well(<TH> in the table,the title text element)

[bleak breach]

There's a number of ways to move text. Text-indent, margin, padding, and all sorts of fun flex statements which I haven't been bothered to memorise off by heart yet

[hollow basalt]

use  

[proven wolf]

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>Document</title>
    <style>
      .title {
        text-align: center;
        padding-top: 50px;
        font-family: "Gill Sans", "Gill Sans MT", Calibri, "Trebuchet MS",
          sans-serif;
        font-size: 50px;
      }
      .titleBackground {
        width: 100%;
        height: 200px;
        background-color: lightblue;
      }
      .titleBackground :hover {
        background-color: yellow;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="titleBackground"><div class="title">Test</div></div>
  </body>
</html>

``` Why is it not all yellow ? I want all the blue to be yellow

[vestal glen]

your selector applies to the .title div on :hover, not .titleBackground, since space means "any child matching what is to the right". So what you want is no space before :hover.

[next igloo]

$(document).ready(function(e) {
$("#stage").click(spawnEnemy);
});

function spawnEnemy(e) {
var enemy = jQuery("<div/>", { class: "enemy" });
enemy.css("top", 50 + "px");
enemy.css("left", 500 + "px");
$("#stage").append(enemy);
}

Can someone help me with this code

When you click #stage it will place a div for .enemy

[narrow turret]

@next igloo What issues are you having with it? Do you have styling for the enemy class elsewhere?

[next igloo]

It was something like

Width: 16px;
Height: 8px;
Position: Absolute;
Z-Index: 1000;
Background-Color: #444444;

[warm sleet]

@next igloo generally, its easier to prepare styles for each state that your element can be in

and then, instead of manually modifying the style inline, you change which classes your element inherits

so .css() is generally a bad idea

[hollow basalt]

@warm sleet

[patent arrow]

hello is this the right channel to get my code rated?

[next igloo]

I found the problem

Bullet.js was not linked in my html

And the code works

[livid bison]

Looking for ppl to stress test my new Twitter bot. It plays any tagged youtube video on an LCD screen inside my computer. Plz send your worst.
https://twitter.com/ShittyVideoBot

Feed me shitty videos (@ShittyVideoBot)

I am a bot that plays Youtube videos for my owner.

@ me with a link and I'll play it for him!

Tweets

3

Twitter

[sick dome]

Does anyone here know linux command line?

[hollow basalt]

i can print hello world in the command line

[midnight wind]

https://dontasktoask.com/

just ask

[sick dome]

I think I figured it out

[hollow basalt]

what if he wants to know if he can ask

then he is merely asking

[midnight wind]

but then he is asking to ask

[hollow basalt]

he just asks if he can ask. not asking to ask

You're asking people to take responsibility. You're questioning people's confidence in their abilities.
Good quote from the website

[midnight wind]

@hollow basalt this one is relevant too https://xyproblem.info/

[hollow basalt]

yea I got the XY problem from stack over flow

since most of the OP are like that

[umbral saffron]

I just got a raspberry pi 4 b

What should I make with it

Ping me

[hollow basalt]

make a bed

[midnight wind]

@umbral saffron it's a good server

You could host some lighter web apps

Your own vpn

Pi-hole

If you really wanted to you could put exsi on it

Idk if proxmox supports arm, I think it does

[hollow basalt]

but poor pi if would be used for hypervisor

[midnight wind]

Yeah lol, some people...

[unkempt cloak]

Funny story relating to some python code I was writing.

So I was solving a maths problem through exhaustion and I ended up grabbing a csv with a million lines. It was only 20mb but still thats a lot of lines.

I'm working on an iPad bc... laptops are... idk I just am anywho.

The sheer might of my csv was enough to cripple safari and numbers. Numbers would crash every time i'd try to import it. Safari would stop responding every time i pressed the new tab button (worked fine flipping between existing tabs or by opening them in other ways). I hard reset my device updated it closed every app. Still would not fix it.

I have never seen a 20mb file freak a device out like this without it being malware.

iOS can't handle my big list energy

[midnight wind]

you can develop on ipadOS?

or are you using cloud?

[umbral saffron]

I wanted to make a radio but like

They all seem rlly expensive or complicated

[midnight wind]

a radio? that's a new one

like as in a smart speaker?

[umbral saffron]

There’s a lot of videos on rails

[midnight wind]

or like an actual radio

[umbral saffron]

A radio

Like a ham radio and a pirate radio

Look it up on yt

[midnight wind]

hmm, interesting

[hollow basalt]

Yea, as long as you can buy the hw

anything is possible

[midnight wind]

just seems like the pi is unnessacary

[hollow basalt]

not really

he can use to automate stuff

[midnight wind]

true

[hollow basalt]

or act like a small radio station and spam the neighborhood with his music

and wait until the police shows up for broadcasting without permission

[midnight wind]

lol, one of my neighbors did that

he broadcast to one of the FM channels so you can listen to the music that his chrismas light show is for

[hollow basalt]

As long as it doesn't reach that far

he broadcast to one of the FM channels
Frequency that is reserved for an existing channel or the unused ones?

[midnight wind]

I forgot

[unkempt cloak]

Develop is a strong word... but you can straight up write python there's apps that let you do it. I don't know about other languages

[hollow basalt]

#development is an even stronger word

[crystal tundra]

Well you can certainly write code in ipados

[hollow basalt]

I mean android has a c++ compiler app

so lel

what's stopping you

it's rather about how fast can you code since onscreen is kinda meh

good thing ipad now comes with a keyboard so blurring the lines further

[worthy dirge]

Why use that stupid app when you have termux

[ivory bear]

maybe because some of them might not able to run termux due to various reasons... there's many different devices running android and not all of them supported it for one or another or might need workaround etc

[next nest]

progress

[sonic lava]

I have a general question: I want to make this command line application where it would screen record an iFrame source from a simple html local file, and store it in a designated folder or path. Preferably i would also like to make a scheduled recording feature but I think I could figure that out my self. My question is how to do I get started? I know Java and Python. Any libraries that you guys would recommend for this kind of program? Specifically the iFrame recording, I think I can figure out how to do the rest, but I am really stuck on how to do the recording

[hollow basalt]

sure

[umbral saffron]

if i have a raspberry pi 4 b and a rasbperry pi zero w
what can/should i make

(i have no experience with either but i researched it a lot)

[hollow basalt]

you could make a paper weight

[umbral saffron]

smart

[midnight wind]

@umbral saffron make the 4 be a server

And the zero needs to send temperature information using http to the server

Using the gpio pins and a cheap small temp sensor

Later on you could even use databases like influxdb

[umbral saffron]

what

[midnight wind]

@umbral saffron basically have the zero send a temperature sensor reading over a network to the raspberry pi 4 where it can processed in something like a database

I'm myself working on something like that, but with an arduino so I have to do some low level network stuff

[umbral saffron]

so like

to measure just the temperature?

[bleak breach]

You could do something silly like add a diode that detects light so that if the 4 turns off you automatically restart it with wake-on-lan

[midnight wind]

Pi's have WOL?

[bleak breach]

no 😦

You'd have to add something like an esp32 or 8266 to make it happen

[next igloo]

  var bullet = jQuery("<div/>", { class: "bullet" });
  bullet.css("top", ($("#gun").position().top = $("#gun").position().top - 4  + "px"));
  bullet.css("left", ($("#gun").position().left = $("#gun").position().left - 4  + "px"));
  $("#stage").append(bullet);
  var Bulletdirection = (Math.atan2(cursorY - ($("#gun").position().top + 4), cursorX - ($("#gun").position().left + 8)) * 180 / Math.PI);
  $(".bullet").css({transform: "rotate(" + Bulletdirection + "deg)"});
}

//Bullet move

$(document).ready(function(e) {
  gunTimer = setInterval(bulletMove, 1000 / 60);
});

function bulletMove(e) {
  $(".bullet").css("left", ($(".bullet").position().left = $(".bullet").position().left - 5  + "px"));```

is anyone good with object oriented js

this is for a thing that spawns bullets when you click on screen

currently clicking will point the bullet in the direction of the click, and makes it go left since i dont have the formula to make it go in 360 degrees

if i fire a second bullet, it will change the direction of the 1st bullet and teleport to it

[warm sleet]

@next igloo javascript isnt object oriented

its a dynamic language

@next igloo though you can use prototypes for inheritance

if you'd like a more powerful language to do OO with, yet still be able to call upon javascript

typescript is a good language

[next igloo]

its for a school project, so i have to use javascirpt html and css

[warm sleet]

@next igloo you can create a data container, as an object

and add its methods functions as fields properties

[next igloo]

k

[warm sleet]

so think of this

var myObject = {
  sound: "bark",
  talk: function() {
    console.log(this.sound)
  }
}

myObject.talk()

constructors are much the same way

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/new

this is useful for creating instances of objects

[umbral saffron]

@midnight wind what about a garage door opener using siri

[midnight wind]

yeah that's would work

[umbral saffron]

i wanted to make a phone thing

[warm sleet]

gg apple ownz your house

[umbral saffron]

yus

i wana make something

like a glasses display thing

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/orient-display-usa-corp/AMG240128PR-G-W6WFDW/12089258?utm_adgroup=Display Modules - LCD%2C OLED%2C Graphic&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Shopping_Product_Optoelectronics_NEW&utm_term=&utm_content=Display Modules - LCD%2C OLED%2C Graphic&gclid=EAIaIQobChMItaiWrvyq7QIVDvjICh2EdQ1NEAQYAyABEgLig_D_BwE

[warm sleet]

@umbral saffron do you know about DIY home automation

[umbral saffron]

is this what i think it is

[umbral saffron]

yes

kinda

[warm sleet]

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/homekit/

Home assistant can be used with all kinds of DIY projects

and it integrates with many other platforms

[umbral saffron]

mhm

[midnight wind]

I should deploy that

[umbral saffron]

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/orient-display-usa-corp/AMG240128PR-G-W6WFDW/12089258?utm_adgroup=Display Modules - LCD%2C OLED%2C Graphic&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Shopping_Product_Optoelectronics_NEW&utm_term=&utm_content=Display Modules - LCD%2C OLED%2C Graphic&gclid=EAIaIQobChMItaiWrvyq7QIVDvjICh2EdQ1NEAQYAyABEgLig_D_BwE

[warm sleet]

all you ned to get started

[umbral saffron]

is this what i think it is

[warm sleet]

is a raspberry pi

[umbral saffron]

wow i have that

[warm sleet]

@umbral saffron yeah if you then have a controller that say, could talk to your garage door

[umbral saffron]

ik

[warm sleet]

you can use home assistant to set it up

[umbral saffron]

im asking

should i make it

and

i wanna make a screen display thing

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/orient-display-usa-corp/AMG240128PR-G-W6WFDW/12089258?utm_adgroup=Display Modules - LCD%2C OLED%2C Graphic&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Shopping_Product_Optoelectronics_NEW&utm_term=&utm_content=Display Modules - LCD%2C OLED%2C Graphic&gclid=EAIaIQobChMItaiWrvyq7QIVDvjICh2EdQ1NEAQYAyABEgLig_D_BwE

with that

if it works

[warm sleet]

https://www.aliexpress.com/i/4000538282658.html

[umbral saffron]

that ones too big

[warm sleet]

I have one of these ^

its about the same size of the rpi

and you can get cases for it

[umbral saffron]

ok so

what i want

to make

wayyyyyyyyyyy later

not rn

is a thing

[warm sleet]

yeah but

[umbral saffron]

a helmet

[warm sleet]

what you linked is just a display

[umbral saffron]

with

the screen on it

[warm sleet]

but you still need a display controller

[umbral saffron]

yes

i know

im asking

is the screen good

i have the other things planned

[warm sleet]

oh yeah, its fine for what it is, and its cheap too

the touch isnt the greatest

its a bit like the old DS touchscreen

finger dont work well

[umbral saffron]

https://www.ebay.com/i/223651909405?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28

@warm sleet

that ones a solid screen

compared to the see through OLED

[warm sleet]

I wouldnt get that one

drivers are dodgy

[umbral saffron]

ok

[warm sleet]

https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/Main_Page

The ones I have actually have a wiki and documentation

[umbral saffron]

this one

[warm sleet]

yeah

[umbral saffron]

https://www.adafruit.com/product/1680

[warm sleet]

but thats just the screen

again, no controller

[umbral saffron]

ik

im gonna try to connect it to a zero w

or should i get a 0 WH

[warm sleet]

zero w shouldnt be doing any display stuff ideally

its very slow

[umbral saffron]

so the WH would be better

[warm sleet]

WH?

Raspberry Pi model B

3 or 4

4 is nice and fast

https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/PI4B_Display_Kit

[umbral saffron]

i have a 4

but that would be too big

for just a remot

remote

so this is better then

[warm sleet]

like

what pixel dimensions are you looking for?

[umbral saffron]

idk

what i want

is a helmet

gimme a min

lemme find it

https://www.amazon.com/ATAIRSOFT-Tactical-Multifunctional-Goggles-Version/dp/B00ENYM142/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=atairsoft&qid=1606764240&sr=8-6

this helmet

[warm sleet]

https://www.buydisplay.com/lcd-3-5-inch-320x480-tft-display-module-optl-touch-screen-w-breakout-board

[umbral saffron]

with that raspberry pi

and that screen we chose

as a prototype thing

for a school project

[warm sleet]

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-3-5-color-320x480-tft-touchscreen-breakout

I think those controllers use SPI

arduinos are kinda underpowered and dont have the stuff you need

but most things you can use on an arduino you can do on a raspberry pi

rpi has an SPI interface too

[umbral saffron]

yea

[warm sleet]

run home assistant on something like this

and then the display program, you just write yourself

have it draw directly onto the screen, and then just fetch data from home assistant

[umbral saffron]

so if i have a raspberry pi zero WH
connected to a screen on an arm in front of the left lens
(the screen being the "monitor" running the info)
it would just be that

a screen connected to the pi

moved over a lens

[warm sleet]

if you wanted an even fancier remote

what you could do

is get an STM32

use that to drive the display

stm32 has ultra low power consumption

it can idle with micoamperes of current

so when you press button

you can wake it up

https://revspace.nl/images/thumb/f/fb/Bluepill_pinout.png/800px-Bluepill_pinout.png

[umbral saffron]

wait is it the board

[warm sleet]

they cost like $2

[umbral saffron]

oh

[warm sleet]

this is a development board

[umbral saffron]

ok

[warm sleet]

but the chip is an arm STM32

32 bit microcontroller

[umbral saffron]

so this would replace the rpi

[warm sleet]

yeah it also has all the interfaces

and a lot more of them

[umbral saffron]

oh nice

[warm sleet]

its like 5x faster than the atmega328p that the arduino uses

[umbral saffron]

so what does it run then

[warm sleet]

machine code?

its an arm microcontroller

[umbral saffron]

i know

[warm sleet]

you program it via usb

[umbral saffron]

but it has to have a software right

[warm sleet]

yeah your program

[umbral saffron]

or am i being dumb again

[warm sleet]

which you compile on your computer, and then upload to the board

[umbral saffron]

oh ok

[warm sleet]

its like arduino

but faster and cheaper

[umbral saffron]

ohhh

ok

[warm sleet]

its fast enough

to handle high framerate displays

as long as you dont go overboard with the size

[umbral saffron]

now i have the issue of what to put on it and how to put it on

[warm sleet]

but small oled displays, perfect match

@umbral saffron yeah thats why many makers have 3d printer

they make their own enclosure

for their parts

[umbral saffron]

no i mean how to put the stuff on the screen

[warm sleet]

oh

so SPI displays

literally you have a pixel coordinate that has some color value

and your program just sets that pixel to that color

usually you can use a display kit

which adds functions for you, so can tell it to draw a line on screen

or write text here

or display an image

but all its really doing is just setting pixels at certain locations to certain color values

@umbral saffron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mDnKBNl9sY

This is a funny video

first bit is the arduino

and halfway they switch to the stm32

[late plank]

Im stuck on a piece of code.. I need to do a function which wont work in js but it does in python but im struggling on calling that pyton function from my javascript. any suggestions?

[umbral saffron]

if it works in python then whats the issue

[warm sleet]

wat

@late plank you do realize those are two different languages right?

[late plank]

yes i do

[warm sleet]

can you share a snippet of code?

[late plank]

but my function only works in python. how am i going to call that from javascript?

[umbral saffron]

you dont

[warm sleet]

@late plank short answer is you don't

[late plank]

huh?

[umbral saffron]

python and java dont link

[warm sleet]

but there are some ways to make programs from different languages work with one another

common way is using a shell command

one program calls the other program

[umbral saffron]

call it through python then

[late plank]

ive tried so using flask

[warm sleet]

wat

[late plank]

import requests

HEADERS = {
    'User-Agent': 'android/6.29.3 Model/phone Android/7.0-API24',
    'Host': 'ms.ah.nl',
}

response = requests.post(
    'https://ms.ah.nl/create-anonymous-member-token',
    headers=HEADERS,
    params={"client": "appie-anonymous"}
    )
print(response.json())

I need to run this in python

[warm sleet]

lol

I got albert heijn like 200 meters down the road

[late plank]

lol

[warm sleet]

yeah, so you want to do this, but in javascript?

[late plank]

if you can..

[warm sleet]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest/Using_XMLHttpRequest

This is what you use in the browser

[late plank]

i couldnt get the Host to work, googled it and js is blocking that it seems

[warm sleet]

not sure if you you are using node

[late plank]

nope

[warm sleet]

@late plank that's probably a CORS rule blocking you

[late plank]

yes..

[warm sleet]

yeah, the webserver that provides the page that loads the js, has to provide CORS policies in the HTTP header

[late plank]

but the piece of python code worked.. so i wondered if i could call it through python

[warm sleet]

you can set them to allow anywhere

@late plank yeah the code in js you have probably works fine with xhr

but the webbrowser is blocking it

Its to prevent cross-origin-resource-sharing

[late plank]

and the fetch request doesnt work if the Host isnt passed through

[warm sleet]

yes

thats normal for HTTP/1.1

[late plank]

is there any way its possible to do what i want?

[warm sleet]

function reqListener () {
  console.log(this.responseText);
}

var oReq = new XMLHttpRequest();
oReq.addEventListener("load", reqListener);
oReq.open("GET", "http://www.example.org/example.txt");
oReq.send();

[late plank]

https://github.com/bartmachielsen/SupermarktConnector
The piece of code i sent was created from this, ever since i need to have this working on my website

[warm sleet]

most of these APIs are just REST apis

you can either use the library they provide

or make your own requests

[late plank]

I can access jumbo's api

albert heijn doesnt have a publicly accessible api if im right

[warm sleet]

mh

[late plank]

but with the python code you could request a token which allows you to make an api request

[warm sleet]

Does AH do some kind of rate limiting?

I've had to connect to things like the maps API, which is quite restrictive if you ask it to route calculations

was for a ride sharing service, so we actually cached many of our responses

then you can provide your own API

which your software uses

[late plank]

I need to access their api to look if my barcode is any of their products. (for a school project)

[warm sleet]

right

that shouldnt be too hard

probably single request

to their API

[late plank]

yes, not often

[warm sleet]

but question is, do they require an API key

and do they have rate limits

caching results locally, is wanted anyways.

you don't want to always do a lookup at the source, everytime you scan the barcode

[late plank]

i do have it working for jumbo, ean search, barcodeapi, openfoodsearch

[umbral saffron]

wait @warm sleet sorry ur busy with that but what was the final screen u said was the best

[warm sleet]

@umbral saffron you mean the video?

[late plank]

but I'd like to atleast include plus or ah (or both XD)

[umbral saffron]

noo

not the board

the screen

[late plank]

but if I look at how this is done:

def get_product_by_barcode(self, barcode):
        response = requests.get(
            'https://ms.ah.nl/mobile-services/product/search/v1/gtin/{}'.format(barcode),
            headers={**HEADERS, "Authorization": "Bearer {}".format(self._access_token.get('access_token'))}
        )
        if not response.ok:
            response.raise_for_status()
        return response.json()

He requests an access token (elsewhere in the code, which doest work in js due to the header error) and then makes a request to the api of ah

[warm sleet]

@late plank you should use nodejs for this to host your app

it spawns a small webserver

which returns you the page

and it can expose your api, while keeping the auth tokens to the API from AH private

[late plank]

I currently run on laravel

[warm sleet]

well

if you run this stuff not in a browser

but in a local execution environment

you wont have that CORS issue

has nothing to do with javascript

[late plank]

So i should make it back-end?

[warm sleet]

and everything to do with the browser

yeah, things like these, are always backend

[late plank]

in the end itll be anyway ( i think)

the idea is that an arduino scans a product, sends the barcode to the server which adds the requested bracode+data to a database

[warm sleet]

yeah something like an sql database

or redis

[late plank]

mySql was i thinking of

[warm sleet]

you can use redis

and store the entire response from the API in your database

add a date to it, everytime you go to look up the data, it checks the age of the hash, if its too old, gets a new one from the source

Redis has libraries that allow you to just store json directly

and then search that

https://github.com/RedisJSON/redisjson-py

[late plank]

this is now all front end

[warm sleet]

yeah, but do you really want to query that EAN code everytime?

[late plank]

I dont need to store the entire json file, just a few elements of it

[warm sleet]

that's fine

then parse & toss in sql

[late plank]

later the arduino should somehow make a request to the server and passing on the barcode

[warm sleet]

also store a record if it couldnt find it, and add the age to it too

[late plank]

yeah I need to add the date to it too

but i was first working on getting the api's to work

[warm sleet]

unless you can query the AH api for an EAN directly

i dont see why you wouldn't be able to do this

[late plank]

you first need to gain an access token

[warm sleet]

yeah as with every other API in existence

[late plank]

somehow jumbo doesnt

[warm sleet]

yeah not every company has public APIs

those APIs cost compute time too ;)

[late plank]

XD

So if I shift it all back-end, it should work?

[warm sleet]

did you ever get a successful request from the AH api?

in any environment

[late plank]

Only key outputs

[warm sleet]

ok so it has what you need

good

what you can do is the following

provide one web API yourself, which you can give a 'search' with an EAN input

[warm sleet]

and that, internally, has a list of supermarkets, which it queries the database for

if it cannot find a record for a database, or it is outdated, it will query it from the source

all this ^ is serverside

and then finally

your webinterface

in html, js and css

[late plank]

yeah, just reading out a database mysql

[warm sleet]

your web api, also has a path like you have / which gives you the .html, and then you have /dist/program.js

the program.js is referenced by the html, and it calls the api on /api

and /api is dynamic, everything else static

usually you keep static stuff in a seperate directory

all the images, css styles and crap

and the api in /api

so you can do /api/search/12321312321312312

[late plank]

yeah sth like that is what i need i think

[warm sleet]

which just returns you a json response, with

formatter

sec

[late plank]

but im not that good in this as you are, could you help me a little bit with setting up the main bits?

[warm sleet]

{
  "supermarkets": [
    {
      "name": "ah",
      ...bla
    },
    {
      "name": "plus",
      ...bla
    }
  ]
}

this kind of response is what you'd want

@late plank most of my expertise is in java

but all of this is the same other languages

what language are you most comfortable with?

[late plank]

ooh, it doesnt matter which supermarket the product is from, I need to find what the product's name is when im being given the barcode

java

done that the most so far on study

[warm sleet]

https://sparkjava.com/

This is an incredibly simple webserver

I've used that one before to make websites

with spark

    public void start(Injector injector) {
        service = Service.ignite();
        service.port(properties.getPort());
        service.staticFileLocation("/static");
        provider.getRoutes(injector)
                .forEach(this::register);
    }

Yeah this is like the minimal amount of code

and all the frontend stuff

https://i.imgur.com/8QgejPj.png

are in the resources

[late plank]

Or should I use php and laravel to backend fetch the data from ah?

[distant tartan]

ooo programming. This might be my kind of place

[late plank]

with php, how to i check if this data array is empty?

[late plank]

@warm sleet i got it working hehe, i used a backend php script which i called through a get request. I was then able to generate a token and use that in the ah servers

[bleak breach]

@late plank you can just use if($products['data']) because an empty array coerced to a boolean is false. If you want to be super explicit you could do something like if(is_array($products['data']) && count($products['data']) > 0))

[tawny sequoia]

hey, just want to sak. How long does npx create-react-app my app or yarn create react-app my-app usually take?

cause I've been sitting here waiting for 20 minutes

[hollow basalt]

so it's not reacting at the right time

[tawny sequoia]

ya

it just sits at
Installing 'react', 'react-dom', (blah blah blah)

[umbral saffron]

how do i connect a button to an rpi

like i know how using a breadboard

but how would i put it on something else

like for example if i was making a remote

pls dm me bc im going to bed and by then ill have to scroll rlly far

gn

[hollow basalt]

how do i connect a button to an rpi
Connect it like any other button

[distant tartan]

if(empty($array)) {}

[wind oracle]

hi

I need help

in java

[umbral saffron]

that doesnt help

[midnight wind]

@umbral saffron give me a bit, it should be the same as arduino, but there are multiple ways

[umbral saffron]

ok thanks

[next igloo]

60 $(document).ready(function(d) {
61   $("#stage").click(spawnBullet);
62 });
63 
64 function spawnBullet(d) {
65   if (ammo >= 1) {
66     ammo--;
67     var bullet = { bulletMove: function(e) {
68       this.css("top", ($("#gun").position().top = $("#gun").position().top - 4  + "px"));
69       this.css("left", ($("#gun").position().left = $("#gun").position().left - 4  + "px"));
70       $(this).css({transform: "rotate(" + (Math.atan2(cursorY - ($("#gun").position().top + 4), cursorX - ($("#gun").position().left + 20)) * 180 / Math.PI) + "deg)"});}, class: "bullet" };
71     $("#stage").append(bullet);
72   }
73 
74 $(document).ready(function(e) {
75   gunTimer = setInterval(bulletMove, 1000 / 60);
76 });
77
78 function bulletMove(e) {
79  $(".bullet").css("left", ($(".bullet").position().left = $(".bullet").position().left - 5  + "px"));
80 } }```

when you click on screen, a should spawn

at the location of the gun, and it will point at the cursor

then it will move left forever

but it wont spawn, can someone help?

[midnight wind]

@umbral saffron https://raspberrypihq.com/use-a-push-button-with-raspberry-pi-gpio/

[umbral saffron]

thanks

[silver furnace]

I've had jquery and a js script linked before to a page, but for some reason, I still have to put the js after the element selected inside $(document).ready(). Every once a while

I just go with it because frontend

Then again, it's on click.

Check your browser console. Do you get Uncaught ReferenceError: ammo is not defined

Or did you just not paste the entire code

[next igloo]

i did not paste the entire thing

which is why its starts at line 60

[umbral saffron]

is there more after that

[next igloo]

no

before is a script handling a hud showing the time, health and ammo of the user

[tepid orchid]

any flutter devs here?

[nocturne galleon]

anyone know how to code a script which when a button is pressed it will generate a random combo of letters and numbers and copy it to clipboard?

[spring pond]

R::
    Random, rand, 1, 1000
    clipboard := rand

this was written in ahk

this just does numbers but you could add letters pretty easily

[nocturne galleon]

how would i do that ? i have no clue on coding

[spring pond]

let me look into it

[nocturne galleon]

cheers

[spring pond]

R::
    clipboard := UUIDCreate()
    
UUIDCreate(mode:=1, format:="", ByRef UUID:="")
{
    UuidCreate := "Rpcrt4\UuidCreate"
    if InStr("02", mode)
        UuidCreate .= mode? "Sequential" : "Nil"
    VarSetCapacity(UUID, 16, 0) ;// long(UInt) + 2*UShort + 8*UChar
    if (DllCall(UuidCreate, "Ptr", &UUID) == 0)
    && (DllCall("Rpcrt4\UuidToString", "Ptr", &UUID, "UInt*", pString) == 0)
    {
        string := StrGet(pString)
        DllCall("Rpcrt4\RpcStringFree", "UInt*", pString)
        if InStr(format, "U")
            DllCall("CharUpper", "Ptr", &string)
        return InStr(format, "{") ? "{" . string . "}" : string
    }
}

Generates strings like 1e3ceb5c-75ae-4e5b-9e07-1f824339963d

[nocturne galleon]

damn thats very complex

[spring pond]

i just copied the big part from a website lol

[nocturne galleon]

oh haha right right

[spring pond]

you can change the R:: to any key that you want

https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Hotkeys.htm

[nocturne galleon]

oh right so when i press R that will auto copy?

so i can make a macro that goes

R + ctrl v

and that will paste? the code looking thing?

[spring pond]

thats what you currently have to do

yes

[nocturne galleon]

thanks <3

[spring pond]

if you want you could make it any key combo you want

np

[nocturne galleon]

cheers g

[nocturne galleon]

looking for a fairly experienced person who knows how to write scripts/macros for a fun lil project im doing :D dm me! (it should be quite simple)

[viscid parrot]

https://adventofcode.com In case it wasn't already posted here.

[next igloo]

61 $(document).ready(function(d) {
62   $("#stage").click(spawnBullet);
63 });
64
65 function spawnBullet(d) {
66
67   function bullet(){
68     this.bullet = new Sprite();
69     this.bullet.hide();
70     this.bullet.fire = function(){
71     this.show();
72     this.move($(this).css("left", ($(this).position().left = $(this).position().left - 5  + "px")));
73     this.setPosition(($("#gun").position().left = $("#gun").position().left - 4  + "px").x, ($("#gun").position().top = $("#gun").position().top - 4  + "px").y);
74     this.setAngle($(this).css({transform: "rotate(" + (Math.atan2(cursorY - ($("#gun").position().top + 4), cursorX - ($("#gun").position().left + 20)) * 180 / Math.PI) + "deg)"}));
75     } 
76   };
77  
78   function init(){
79     bullet = new Bullet();
80   };
81  
82   function update(){
83     bullet.update();
84   };
85  
86   function bulletMove(e) {
87     bullet.move
88   }
89 };
91
92 $(document).ready(function(e) {
93   gunTimer = setInterval(bulletMove, 1000 / 60);
94 });

did i code this right

lines 61-65 run and 92-94 correctly

function spawnBullet(d) will run but there seems to be a runtime error in the code there

Sprite() on line 68 is being detected as an undeclared variable

along with Bullet() on line 79

the purpose of the code is that when you click a bullet will appear, and you are able to shoot multiple bullets

[vestal glen]

well, there is no Sprite or Bullet in this code snipet.

[fluid kernel]

Where is Sprite and Bullet defined in that context? You're saying "create a new Sprite" but this piece of code doesn't know what a Sprite is.

[next igloo]

im not exactly sure what the syntax is for spawning a sprite

but Sprite() and Bullet() are not variables

[fluid kernel]

then what are they? that's where the issue is, figure that out and you'll get to the bottom of it.

[next igloo]

i tried adapting the code from here https://www.dummies.com/programming/programming-games/how-to-add-missiles-to-objects-in-your-html5-game/

so im not sure the specifics of init, new, and a few other things

[vestal glen]

those are constructors, so a thing you can create an instance off. They may either look like functions (with a prototype for methods) or use the class syntax. Either way, they're a thing you need to have somewhere (or something like a library needs to provide)

(see for example https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/JavaScript/Objects/Object-oriented_JS)

[next igloo]

alright

[stiff rose]

how to add rss feed in Gmail? is jt possible?

I can't find any proper answers

[umbral saffron]

would there be any way for me to make a button connected to a raspberry pi but not directly connected to a breadboard

[umbral saffron]

what do u want it to do

like whats the end project

[spring pond]

using something like this

[umbral saffron]

oh ok

so for example if i wanted a button in a glove i'd just connect it and run it down the arm

cool

whats that called

[spring pond]

i just googled pc power switch

you could probably find a more robust one if you google for a bit

[umbral saffron]

ok

[spring pond]

alibaba and the like are your best friend for these

[umbral saffron]

thanks

this is adafruit but would this work?

https://www.adafruit.com/product/4431?gclid=Cj0KCQiAk53-BRD0ARIsAJuNhpsnsJYq_IOMq6lvxNnxG8n9fgCoC-rKV1pijOVb-uh0KyzlScqqdssaAu8jEALw_wcB

@spring pond

[spring pond]

yes

[umbral saffron]

ok

[spring pond]

those have the resistor built in

[umbral saffron]

so is that better?

[midnight wind]

@umbral saffron yeah

remember the arduino thing I posted to you

here the resitor is built-in

[umbral saffron]

what does it do

the resistor

[midnight wind]

limit current, you don't want to burn out your pi

also the adafruit is a different curcuit

@umbral saffron the resistor on the adafruit is a pullup resistor. You can read more about it here https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/pull-up-resistors/all

so this is how it would look like

[umbral saffron]

i have no idea what that means

[midnight wind]

read up on that site

you have to learn a little bit of electrical engineering

basically you would hook up vcc to 5v, gnd to gnd, and the signal pin to your pi with those adafruit buttons

[umbral saffron]

couldnt i just connect the button to the cable and the cable to a breadboard and the breadboard to the pi?

or if thats what u said i dont know what u meant

[midnight wind]

wdym, you don't just connect breadboard to pi you need to specify what you are connecting. The breadboard is just another way to make solderless connections and makes protyping or diy projects easy

[umbral saffron]

wdym i need to specify

[midnight wind]

what you connecting and where

[umbral saffron]

i get i need to plug it in to the right hole

[midnight wind]

you don't need a breadboard if you use those adafruit buttons

[umbral saffron]

oh

cool

[midnight wind]

why did you think you need a breadboard?

[umbral saffron]

idk
for all the things i saw when they connected the buttons to a breadboard

[midnight wind]

yeah, because it's easy

but a connection is a connection

[umbral saffron]

so what do i do

[midnight wind]

I'm just clarifying you don't need a breadboard

[umbral saffron]

oh ok

so how do i connect it then

[midnight wind]

I would reccomend you use a breadboard

but you could crimp some of these on

and connect to gpio

the adafruit thing comes with male connectors

could use an adapter like this too https://www.amazon.com/SamIdea-2-Pack-Female-Rainbow-Raspberry/dp/B07CGM83QL/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=raspberry+pi+3+gpio+pin+female&qid=1606941726&sr=8-1

[umbral saffron]

so the buttons connect into the cable and the cable to the rpi 0?

[midnight wind]

you could, there are many options

I may be confusing you

[umbral saffron]

yes

[next igloo]

Does anyone know if discord bots can type a command into a text channel, and have it be read and excuted by a different bot

[umbral saffron]

bots cant interact with other bots

their text is just that

text

[hollow basalt]

[nocturne galleon]

Does this seem good for developing a job scheduler

[pliant siren]

Really? Wouldn't your bot see it as a message? I haven't tried but I don't remember seeing anything in the API that specifies that a message sent by a bot won't be interpreted by other API users as a message.

I use discord.js so I'm not sure how much of it is abstracted away but I would think it would appear just as any other message:

discord.on('message', message => {
if (message.channel && message.channel.name) {

[umbral saffron]

it doesnt work

[fervent orbit]

Bots can in-fact interact with other bots.

[umbral saffron]

oooooo

cool

[next igloo]

can humans interact with humans?

[umbral saffron]

i cant

[nocturne galleon]

Can air interact with air?

[umbral saffron]

ok so question:
for this
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3400?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIv-HVv4ir7QIVDY_ICh0TOALtEAQYASABEgJHzvD_BwE
to interact with this
https://www.adafruit.com/product/1590
do i need a breadboard @midnight wind

[umbral saffron]

or couldnt i just use the microHDMI to HDMI port?

[stiff rose]

Like I receive github updates in Gmail forums I want to have certain feeds

[proven lodge]

I don't know if u have ever used playsound, in python, but it works fine alone but doesn't work when it's in a class

How do i define it or give it an attribute in a class?

[umbral saffron]

couldnt u import the API of github into a bot that emails u the things u want

(idk if github has an import thing considering how large it is)

[stiff rose]

I can write code for that but it's available in outlook so I thought Gmail will have it and then I will add gmail widget to the screen that way I can see it right on home screen

[umbral saffron]

so email urself in outlook

[stiff rose]

😂 I don't like outlook ads, and personal subscription cost is too high for individual and my family don't care about this things so family plan is not good for me.

[umbral saffron]

i dont have to pay for it?

[astral garnet]

k.. i give up... why

apt-get install python-bs4 pip install beautifulsoup
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

😐

[umbral saffron]

r u using python>

?

[astral garnet]

yes

[umbral saffron]

what are u trying to do

[astral garnet]

its in the consol

[umbral saffron]

ah

what r u trying to do

[astral garnet]

install the package

[stiff rose]

apt-get install python-bs4 && pip install beautifulsoup

try this

[astral garnet]

apt-get install python-bs4 && pip install beautifulsoup
File "<stdin>", line 1
apt-get install python-bs4 && pip install beautifulsoup
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[umbral saffron]

what are u trying to install

[astral garnet]

beautifulsoup

https://blog.datahut.co/scraping-ebay/ :/

[stiff rose]

just fire pip install beautifulsoup

[astral garnet]

pip install beautifulsoup4
File "<stdin>", line 1
pip install beautifulsoup4
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

like idk why it wont work

[stiff rose]

pip3 install beautifulsoup

you have python3 probably

[astral garnet]

keeps saying "install" is invalid syntax

[stiff rose]

try pip3 install beautifulsoup

[astral garnet]

maybe it doesnt exist...

[stiff rose]

oh

[umbral saffron]

wouldnt it be

import beautifulsoup
Beautifulsoup_API = beautifulsoup.Client("apigoeshere")```

[stiff rose]

oh on you have to exit first

exit() then on normal terminal

try pip3 install beautifulsoup

[astral garnet]

exit just closes the console

[umbral saffron]

import beautifulsoup
Beautifulsoup_API = beautifulsoup.Client("apigoeshere")

its this

it should be

oh wait

like that

[stiff rose]

yes open normal terminal and then install beautifulsoup first tgen open python terminal and do whatever you want

[astral garnet]

yeah idk doesn't work

i give up

imma try a different tutorial

[umbral saffron]

what is ur end goal

[stiff rose]

have you tried installing beautifulsoup from normal terminal

it should work

[umbral saffron]

you did import

but did u check the package was installed

and did u ever call it or use any of it?

@astral garnet

and yj going back to ur thing could u just make a bot to email to ur gmail acc a specific github feed?

[astral garnet]

doesn't work gives me same errors

wont let me import

something else may be wrong

[umbral saffron]

@astral garnet go to settings, go to the name of the project near the bottom, go to project interpreter, then hit the plus and type in BeautifulSoup

THEN run the command i gave u

[astral garnet]

what settings?

its a console

[stiff rose]

yes I can do that easily

[umbral saffron]

ur in python right

[umbral saffron]

then whats the issue

[astral garnet]

i'm uninstalling python and reinstalling

[umbral saffron]

ok but under file, theres a setting option

[stiff rose]

I don't want rss feed of gihub I want rss feed of apple developers updates and apache foundation

[umbral saffron]

oh

idk then

[stiff rose]

that isn't going to do anything

[umbral saffron]

ye

just make sure u fully installed it

[stiff rose]

I can make a tutorial video for you on this

just let me know what you want

python tutorials are popular anyways

[umbral saffron]

its not that hard

open settings

open project settings

go to interpreter

[astral garnet]

there isn't a "settings"

[umbral saffron]

do u know where the file option is at the top

ah

[umbral saffron]

nvm then

idk then

[stiff rose]

open cmd and install there

it's so easy

[astral garnet]

doesn't work

[stiff rose]

ok so only one possible reason

while installation you didn't checked

[stiff rose]

add python to path

wait

I'll tell you

C:\Python34\Scripts\pip install beautifulsoup

try this

instead of python 34 use your directory

Python39 I suppose

issue is your pip isn't in path

check if it's installed or not using

py -m pip --version

[spring pond]

@astral garnet what are you trying to do

[warm sleet]

@astral garnet you can manage dependencies to libraries from within your pycharm environment

Its under File -> Project Settings

or use pip manually to install the packages

[astral garnet]

don't worry about it. i got them installed

there isn't a project settings and all that because i'm using the python ide

[warm sleet]

Pycharm is still my preferred editor

https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/

[umbral saffron]

ye thats what i use

[stiff rose]

vscode is good too, I don't know why everyone suggests pycharm

[midnight wind]

vscode isn't a full ide

I like it myself

but that leads to people not really understand what is happening behind the scenes

"In works in my IDE"

setting up a cpp enviroment for vscode was a pain

but I learned a lot

[spring pond]

i've set up a fair amount of environments for c++ and i get that its good to know whats happening but at a point it just becomes a pain. tbh the horrors of cmake have kinda turned me off from writing c++

[midnight wind]

yeah

after a point I understand

but it's good to once set it up yourself

[warm sleet]

@midnight wind generally I try to set up my IDE environment in a way, that I can use terminal if I wish

[crystal tundra]

such a pain

but its rewarding

bc that means im not stuck to an ide anymore

[shy helm]

Is anyone doing Advent of Code this year??

[west perch]

nope

[next igloo]

is there an online tool where you can type a list and it will convert it to an array

[midnight wind]

this looks nice

https://shancarter.github.io/mr-data-converter/

[next igloo]

each cell is supposed to hole 1 string, thats it

that one does not seem to do the specific task i had

wait nvm

[next igloo]

how can i declare a JSON array?

will Thing = [] work?

[midnight wind]

anyone know javascript well? I'm kinda a noob and for some reason this code isn't working. Specifically, on line 64, it says localImage is undefined. I have tried debugging and all sorts of stuff but it still says it's undefined. The getImages() function works and it's doing it function, the problem is that it's not passing it's data on. imagesFunc object does have the correct values since I check thought the debugger. I'm really stuck right now and I looked everywhere. Some JS tips would be appreciated. I know the naming is terribly. Maybe this is an xy question issue idk. Here is the link to my github gist: https://gist.github.com/PresentMonkey/2d12522c5599e873ea336ca65354586c

@next igloo ```json
"thing":[
"thing1",
"thing2"
]

In js ```js
var thing = {
thing : [
1,
2,
"string",
false

]

}```

[vestal glen]

@midnight wind well, localImages has the value of this.images, which is probably undefined with your code. It seems there's some bits that would change that, but the code would still not work, since you're trying to access a property of this.image and then a subproperty of that, so you'd need that object structure there.

I guess the core issue is treating async code as sync.

-> getImages will run a request and return the value that was there when the request was started, instead of the value when the request was done. There's no way to go from async JS to sync JS. The classic starter is https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Using_promises

[pliant siren]

uhh... when is update() called? From what i can see that code might be getting called thousands of times over.

You're adding an event for on state change every time you call update().

I can't see anywhere that update() is called so I assume it's called externally?

also, why are you defining getImages inside your constructor? YOu have a lot of async calls in there, so when getImages returns, imagesFunc won't be populated.

Basically, you're calling getImages, making an async call off to fetch the path passed in, returning an object that at that time is likely empty (unless it miraculously completes insanely quick - not gonna happen), THEN populating the variable only once that async call comes back.

[marsh oasis]

hey guys whats pippity poppin
so this is what I'm trynna do and I need help lmao
Got a python script that does some basic GPIO mainpulation on my RPi
simple stuff turns a switch on/off
I got a python server as well that sends and receives TCP packets from what should be an app
the goal here is someone clicks a button on the "app", the app sends TCP packet to python server, server receives the packet and notifies my script on the RPi of the switch status
Currently, using android studio to simulate the app which is in java
Problem I'm facing is that its not receiving/sending anything to the python socket
The sockets working all good and fine and receiving and sending messages like it should be, but goddam Android Studio isnt receiving them OR sending anything when a click is initiated by the user
Is there another alternative here? Something I can use beside stupid Android Studio to make this app work in sync with the py server
kinda on a crunch here with ha tight deadline, the easier and more straightfoward it is the better
ah, one last thing, the server and the script read and write data to/from a cloud in the middle
So lets say you click a button on the app, App sends message to server, server receives the message and writes the status of the switch on the cloud, py script locally on the RPi reads the status from the cloud and does what needs to be done (aka flip a switch lol)

[hollow basalt]

hey guys whats pippity poppin
no

[pliant siren]

python
no

[hollow basalt]

python
yes

[bleak breach]

@marsh oasis you’d have to be wayyy more specific about the parts for anyone to be of any help to you

When you say you’ve confirmed the socket works, how did you confirm it and from which end? Send or receiving end?

[marsh oasis]

Sending end

not receiving anything

@bleak breach

[bleak breach]

Being TCP is the app initiating the connection I assume?

[marsh oasis]

yup it is

what i'm guessing now is

the emulators IP is not static

or its different from the network I'm on

[bleak breach]

Emulators IP shouldn’t need to be static... only the address of the server needs to be

[marsh oasis]

Servers IP is static

[bleak breach]

Did you see this? https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-networking

[marsh oasis]

I'll be checking that out

done, so its all setup correctly now

But still no help

let me paste some of these codes

[bleak breach]

Maybe dm me? No point spamming everyone

[midnight wind]

@vestal glen @pliant siren thanks, yeah I had a suspicion it was something to do with async/sync. I'm too used to the c/cpp way of doing things

[umbral saffron]

would it be worth it to buy a watch controller for the helmet

it would just swap between the cameras, turn on the flashlight, and i guess connect the screen

[next igloo]

how can i get a node terminal in vs code?
i have node.js installed

[hollow basalt]

you do it like a python terminal

[next igloo]

?

im not using python

the setup i have is for discord.js

[hollow basalt]

interesting

[next igloo]

right now i cant get the bot to go online or the code to make it work to work

const Discord = require("discord.js");
const client = new Discord.Client();

client.on('ready', () => {
  console.log(`Logged in as ${client.user.tag}!`)
});

client.login(aaaaaaaaaaaaa);

and i have both json packages installed

[midnight wind]

just type node

[next igloo]

thanks

it was that easy? lol

[midnight wind]

to run the script just do node file.js

[hollow basalt]

[midnight wind]

if you want to be more advanced create a launch.json for vscode

so you can debug as well

instead of doing console.log

this is my launch json for example:

{
    // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes.
    // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
    // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Launch Server",
            "type": "node",
            "request": "launch",
            "name": "Launch Program",
            "skipFiles": [
                "<node_internals>/**"
            ],
            "program": "${workspaceFolder}\\server.js"
        },
        {
            "name": "Launch localhost",
            "type": "firefox",
            "request": "launch",
            "reAttach": true,
            "url": "http://localhost:3000/",
            "webRoot": "${workspaceFolder}"
        }
    ]
}

[next igloo]

unexpected identifier

node app.js
"app"

[midnight wind]

oh

node .\app.js

try that

[umbral saffron]

would it be worth it to buy a watch controller for the helmet
it would just swap between the cameras, turn on the flashlight, and i guess connect the screen

[midnight wind]

@next igloo you have to be in the right folder too

[next igloo]

didnt work even with the correct and incorrect slash

[hollow basalt]

can you show your terminal then

[midnight wind]

are you in the vscode terminal?

[next igloo]

yes

[hollow basalt]

time to screenshot

[hollow basalt]

I see

you are inside the actual node

that doesn't work cause you need to execute node in the terminal

however you are inside node REPL