FAQ

=Technical FAQ:= (created by gshowman) Find answers to questions students have asked, and some we've dreamed up pre-emptively, below:

How do I easily save selective screenshots?
Download and run this program: http://www.download.com/Screen-Print-Capture-32/3000-2384_4-10188787.html?tag=lst-0-1

Wiki Technical: (i.e. how to use this wiki)
1. How do I create HTML 'anchors' and link to them? 2. How do I post code to the wiki effectively?

PD-related:
1. How do I get PD audio output to work (i.e. make sound out of my speakers)?

Processing-related:
1. What is my question?

Netlogo-related:
1. What is my question?

Other Technical:
1. What is my question?

Wiki Technical:
HTML anchors are little tags within a single webpage that you can link to explicitly -- so you can create a link that just jumps the viewer down to another part of the page. Obviously this FAQ page uses anchors extensively. Click "edit this page" to see the syntax for the anchors -- basically it's a double-square bracket-enclosed name with a "#" in front of it. Once you've created the anchor somewhere on the page, you can link to it by highlighting any text you want to make into a link (as usual), and click the link button, then choose the page name as usual and click the 'anchor link' line to specify your anchor name. -- gshowman
 * 1. How do I create HTML 'anchors' and link to them?**

**2. How do I post code to the wiki effectively?** To post code with the correct formatting (e.g. just what you see in Processing or whatever text editor you're using), use the 'code' tag that the wiki provides. It's easy: just put the word "code" between double square brackets at the beginning of your code, and also at the end (that's crucial!). Then your code will be beatufiully formatted. code format="java" // See? This is code... x = x + 67; // I added a 'format = "java"' field to the code tag -- if you edit this page you should see that. if (you (specify) == the_format) { the_wiki = will(color_code) + your/code!; } // Which is pretty cool. // Now I just write 'code' in-between double square brackets to end this special chunk of code... code

Check out this help article from the wiki for more info.

PD-related:
If you can't get the sound to work, try this one thing: Go to "Help->Browser", then click "audio examples", then choose "B01.wavetables.pd" from the list. You could choose almost any one, but that one's pretty easy to use.
 * How do I get PD audio output to work (i.e. make sound out of my speakers)?**

If you can get the wavetables example to make a sound, then it will 'turn on sound' for everything, and you'll be able to get the "birds use stars" piece to make sound (remember master volume). I don't know why the 'birds use stars' doesn't automatically kickstart the sound.

To make the wavetables example make noise, you need to turn up the volume, which is the number box at the bottom (click and drag). Then play with the number at the top which will change the tone of the sound you hear. Usually you need to turn the volume up to about 80 or 90 dB to hear it.