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projectM-visualizer / frontend-sdl2

Standalone application based on SDL2 that turns your desktop audio into awesome visuals. Available on most platforms supported by both libprojectM and libSDL2.
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keys or menu? #50

Closed ghost closed 5 months ago

ghost commented 1 year ago

hi

I'm trying the frontend on windows but there are no menus. How do I know what keys are used and is it possible to add a menu to select a preset or some other settings? I can only go fullscreen/window mode by right clicking the window.

thx

kblaschke commented 1 year ago

If you're using a version from Steam, from the Windows Store or an earlier (3.x) projectM release, there's a good chance the menu is broken. Try this package here, which I built from the code in this repository and is a different application with a newer projectM core that comes with lots of bugfixes:

https://github.com/kblaschke/frontend-sdl2/releases/download/2.0-windows-pre1/projectMSDL-Windows-x64-2.0-pre1.zip

You can simply press F1 to get a help overlay with most hotkeys. Pressing enter should show a preset search menu. To change defaults, have a look in the projectMSDL.properties file with a text editor.

ghost commented 1 year ago

Thanks. Now everything works. For a pre-release I think it works really well. Definitely as good as original milkdrop which I used for years. I have a faster PC now so I can't compare the speed. On my PC almost 60 FPS everywhere!

Can people who don't know anything about Project M and/or programming make presets using a tool? Or is this something for experts only?

ghost commented 1 year ago

So this version is actually the very latest project M and I can use this in combination with any audio player, right? It listens to the audio played by any player? So I can also use it as a replacement of older Project M versions that could be use by any player?

ghost commented 1 year ago

Hi

Also the "standalone" links here are broken :(

https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm

So We have to go to your own github to download it. I think many people don't find a working download link then. Maybe they can be fixed? It's easier to download it from official github.

kblaschke commented 1 year ago

So this version is actually the very latest project M and I can use this in combination with any audio player, right? It listens to the audio played by any player? So I can also use it as a replacement of older Project M versions that could be use by any player?

Basically yes. It uses your default audio output device and records it to turn it into visuals. You can press ctrl-i to toggle between all available playback or input devices.

We know about the link issue, it's probably better to remove them for now. The pre-release works well for sure, but isn't an official, production-ready release. Especially the core API is still being changed frequently, which can be exhausting for developers to follow if they expect it to be stable.

selurvedu commented 1 year ago

You can simply press F1 to get a help overlay with most hotkeys

This was removed in 620e259f33bf7ae75efb1d0105e8a49ebedb74ed. Some hotkey info in the README could help while there's no overlay.

kblaschke commented 1 year ago

There are only dev releases in the meantime, the next release will come with both a new UI and updated documentation. Otherwise, the (old) keyboard shortcuts are documented in the projectM main Wiki, to which the SDL frontend previously belonged:

https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm/wiki/User-Manual-(Standalone,-v3.1.x)#hotkey-reference

kblaschke commented 5 months ago

The initial UI code has just been merged. There's still stuff missing, like a preset playlist editor and a search function, but settings and a help dialog are there.

Press ESC to toggle the UI.