R: [Tutor] snack classes

[Michael Lange]

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 11:34:28 +0100
"Andrea Valle" <marta_andrea at libero.it> wrote:


> 
> As you can see, I'd like to use the Sig class derived from the Sound class
> to make some sample manipulation, i.e. the function sine create a sinusoidal
> signal, etc.. The sample method of Sound is really powerful.

 
Hi Andrea,

I put your code in a little script to try what happens:

from Tkinter import *
from tkSnack import *
from math import *

class Sig(Sound):

    def __init__(self):
        self.sec=2
        self.length=44100*self.sec


    def sine(self):
        l=self.length
        for x in range(l):
            y=int(10000*sin(float(x)*50))
            self.sample(x,y)
        return self
    
def test():
    root=Tk()
    initializeSnack(root)
    s = Sig()
    s.sine()
    root.mainloop()

test()

Running this in IDLE leads to:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/share/test.py", line 28, in -toplevel-
    test()
  File "/usr/local/share/test.py", line 25, in test
    s.sine()
  File "/usr/local/share/test.py", line 18, in sine
    self.sample(x,y)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/tkSnack.py", line 288, in sample
    return _cast(self.tk.call((self.name, 'sample', index) + opts))
AttributeError: Sig instance has no attribute 'tk'

Well, of course there's no attribute "tk" in Sig, look at __init__:
        self.sec=2
        self.length=44100*self.sec
there are in fact only two integers there.

So let's change this a little:

from Tkinter import *
from tkSnack import *
from math import *

class Sig(Sound):

    def __init__(self):
        Sound.__init__(self)
        self.sec=2
        self.length=44100*self.sec


    def sine(self):
        l=self.length
        for x in range(l):
            y=int(10000*sin(float(x)*50))
            self.sample(x,y)
        return self
    
def test():
    root=Tk()
    initializeSnack(root)
    s = Sig()
    s.sine()
    root.mainloop()

test()

Running in IDLE results in:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/share/test.py", line 27, in -toplevel-
    test()
  File "/usr/local/share/test.py", line 24, in test
    s.sine()
  File "/usr/local/share/test.py", line 17, in sine
    self.sample(x,y)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/tkSnack.py", line 288, in sample
    return _cast(self.tk.call((self.name, 'sample', index) + opts))
TclError: Index out of bounds

Ah, we've come farther :)

"Index out of bounds" seems to tell us that we were trying to access data that don't exist - 
of course our SIG object doesn't contain any data yet.
So let's feed some data to Sig:

from Tkinter import *
from tkSnack import *
from math import *

class Sig(Sound):

    def __init__(self):
        Sound.__init__(self)
        self.sec=2
        self.length=44100*self.sec
        self.load('/home/pingu/phonoripper/test_2.wav')


    def sine(self):
        l=self.length
        for x in range(l):
            y=int(10000*sin(float(x)*50))
            self.sample(x,y)
        return self
    
def test():
    root=Tk()
    initializeSnack(root)
    s = Sig()
    s.sine()
    root.mainloop()

test()

No more error messages! However except of computing a while not much happens,
so let's finally do it something:

from Tkinter import *
from tkSnack import *
from math import *

class Sig(Sound):

    def __init__(self):
        Sound.__init__(self)
        self.sec=2
        self.length=44100*self.sec
        self.load('/home/pingu/phonoripper/test_2.wav')


    def sine(self):
        l=self.length
        for x in range(l):
            y=int(10000*sin(float(x)*50))
            self.sample(x,y)
        return self
    
def test():
    root=Tk()
    initializeSnack(root)
    s = Sig()
    s2 = s.sine()
    s2.play()
    s2.write('/home/pingu/phonoripper/sig_test.wav')
    root.mainloop()

test()

Success, it computes a while, beeps 2 seconds and writes a file that when opened beeps 2
seconds again.

I'm afraid I'm not one of the "gurus" here, so I can't explain about class definitions very well,
but I hope this helped anyway.

Cheers

Michael