Suggestions for new content and improvements for the Help Browser (topics, keywords, terms, HowTo patch ideas, ...)

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Skia: Draw images: if you don’t know about DrawImage, I’m not sure if it would be the first topic I’d select to understand that’s for loading/displaying images. I’d suggest to name it e.g. “Load and draw image files”

Search term: picture: shows no result, should refer to Draw image and maybe other related topics

search term: “video” I would suggest to also show the “Play a videofile with Skia” from Video.MediaFoundation not only in the Video.MediaFoundation category but also in the Skia category

Skia: Play a stack of images: A lightweight image file sequence would maybe great (currently there’s only a placeholder). Here’s a short loop sequence of a pumping quad with 30KB in total (@30fps):
image_sequence_pumping_quad.zip (12.8 KB) → Set loop active in help patch

Ideas for more howto examples:

  • How to split a spread into its slices? (Decons)
  • How to create a spread from a certain number of values? (Cons, IOBox)
  • How to set/trigger a certain value or string once into a node/IOBox (which is already connected with another value (e.g. with a bang). (that’s a question often asked by my students)
  • How can I always update the value that was last changed? (Hot to combne muliple incoming sources always choosing latest changes) (simple solution suggestion, you may have better solutions:
    Howto combine mulitple input values always updating latest changes.zip (4.0 KB)
    )
  • How to change the size of the renderer window from vvvv (Skia)? / How to set renderer to exact size and pos in pixel? Strange aspect of Skia renderer bounds / How to set renderer to exact size and pos in pixel? - question - Forum
    – and/or if more options as resize are available: a more detailed explanation overview for all options on Skia windowing (Size, fullscreen, Title, …) → “How to configure a renderers window (Skia)” as “Explanation Overview Window and Fullscreen (Stride)”
    -How to get the width and height of the renderer window (Skia)? (Skia: ClientBounds → Size (see also TopLeft → TopRight))
  • How to get the width and height of two (or more) combined layers (Skia)?
  • How to animate a value in a certain time from one to another value? (Filter) (maybe also see TweenerAnimation for use cases)
  • How to animate along a (bézier) path → refer to existing help patch “How to sample a path”
  • …
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