Chopping up images from a live webpage
Hi,
I've been trying a number of solutions but nothing is really working for me here. I have a live webpage and I want to chop up the images on it into individual matrices. I have tried jweb to jit.scissors but jweb doesn't output a matrix. I have also tried jit.desktop but it is way to cumbersome and slow (especially for my laptop screen real estate). There are over 200 images so downloading each to a jit.qt.movie doesn't seem very practical. It seems like it would make more sense to just cut up the webpage if that's possible.
Any other suggestions for objects or externals I should look into?
You said downloading would be a hassle but I don't really see another way to do it. Depending on how your webpage is programmed you could use [jit.uldl] and [jit.str.regexp] to find the exact image URL to download. What webpage are you using?
lh
It's my own page, hosted locally - i have over 200 images aligned in a grid and they are ALL rapidly changing (every 100ms or so) through the page's JavaScripting. I have tried to metro a "download url" to [jit.uldl] whereby all images go to a folder. My problem is that the cpu lags while downloading and reading the images every 50 ms from the folder. I thought that by programming a javascript for a webpage, it could do the image retrieval freeing up Jitter's resources to do other things. This is why I want Jitter to "view" the entire page and break it into columns and rows for analysis. Does that make sense?
You don't say if you need to do this programmatically (that is, based on a request that won't be known until runtime), or not.
If no -- there is a plug-in for the Firefox browser called FlashGot. Install it, navigate to your page, then select "FlashGot All" -- it pulls down all the images on the page to your hard drive.
Kurt
Haven't tried Flashgot, but will check it out now. The problem isn't getting the images to the HD - uldl with an indexed array will do that fine - it's that the images change every 100ms, so I need to stream them - then analyze each one in Jitter. Each one is only 16kb so it's not terribly intensive when run locally.
I figure that is I hook up my laptop to a larger, secondary display then jit.desktop might work. It is really not the most elegant solution though.
I don't fully understand how jit.desktop will help.
If it is hosted locally then you probably have a folder full of images on your hard drive, yeah? In this case all you need is a umenu that is auto-loaded with the contents of that folder (see the "prefix" message/attr) that sends "read" messages to a jit.qt.movie object. If that is not a solution, please let us know what exactly you are having trouble with (display of images?, downloading from server?, outputting to screen?, etc.)
Yes, that is correct. I have the images in a folder. The site is hosted locally but the images are downloaded every 100ms as they change. So I can access them locally or online. And populating a umenu isn't a problem.
So how might I get all the images from the umenu to appear in a grid simultaneously? Should I be exploring some javacripting?