[Tkinter-discuss] Python with Snack

[chachachacha]

Hi everyone.  Thanks for your responses!

So I did manage to get Snack installed.  It turned out to be a very simple
process (arg...).  As Russell points out, the binaries stopped at python
2.3.  However, as suggested by Michael, I was able to copy the snacklib into
the Tcl folder.  I then copied the tkSnack.py into the Lib folder.

Problem is, as Russell points out, Snack is out of date.  I was trying to
use it to do audio event analysis.  I wanted to use sound to detect when
heaters in a building would turn on.  With the help of Snack (the Wavesurfer
extension of snack), I have identified the frequencies produced when the
heaters turn on.  However, there seems to be no way of getting the actual
values of frequencies (at least, none that I could figure out)!

What I need still is a way to tell the computer:  Listen (as computers can
do this non-stop) until you hear the heaters turn on.  At this moment,
record the time and date.

I will take a look at pygame.
Thanks again for everyone's responses!
-Al



Russell E. Owen-4 wrote:
> 
> In article <4B17DF49.4030906 at codebykevin.com>,
>  Kevin Walzer <kw at codebykevin.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/3/09 10:40 AM, Michael Lange wrote:
>> >
>> > I don't know what's going wrong here, but I think it should be fine to
>> > simply copy the tkSnack module into Python's site-packages folder.
>> >
>> 
>> Will distutils/setuptools actually build the binary Snack library? It's 
>> a Tcl/Tk library, not a Python library. tkSnack.py is just a wrapper. 
>> The OP is probably better off downloading the Windows binary, installing 
>> it in the appropriate directory (wherever the other Tcl/Tk libs are on 
>> his system), and then trying to install tkSnack.py.
> 
> I agree. I am pretty sure distutils will not build the snack library.
> 
> I used to install it on Windows by downloading the binary release for 
> windows with python (but it only goes up to Python 2.3). Then follow the 
> instructions on the web site: "Installation (with Python)".
> 
> But...I recommend not using snack at all. It appears to have been 
> abandoned.
> 
> I used to use it, but switched to pygame. I chose pygame because (like 
> snack, except snack is no longer maintained):
> - It is fully cross-platform (Mac, unix and windows)
> - It plays sounds asynchronously
> - It is released and well maintained
> - It is easy to use and easy to install
> 
> Note that pygame does much more than play sounds. But you can ignore the 
> extra capabilities if you don't need them.
> 
> There are a number of sound packages, but I found none that were 
> cross-platform, fully released (version 1.0 or later) and still actively 
> maintained.
> 
> -- Russell
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