GuideMe (TeaseMe v2.0) - Current Build 0.4.4

[philo]

After just downloaded GuideMe and running start.bat, this is the window that it always gives me, which I can't interact with in any way: http://i.imgur.com/T1nyBF8.jpg

It does that when it gets an error in the start up process. There will be an error in guideme.log that will tell me where it is failing.

If you want to put a copy of the log on somewhere like mega and pm me a link I will have a look.

[Trusfrated]

Copy to clipboard implemented.
There is an option in application settings to turn it off / on (default is off).
It will copy any text in the right hand text pane to the clipboard.
If you have a Text To Speech program monitoring the clipboard it will the be read out.

This is fantastic, Philo! Thank you so much. It works just like I had envisioned. I hope others see a use for this as well.

[meson1]

It does work a treat, doesn't it? You wouldn't think it was a beta at all.

Philo, if it's possible I still think you need to move that timer into it's own pane on the right hand side so it can be in a much bigger font without affecting the other details up on the status line. If you were to do it like TeaseMe v1.n that would be above the text pane. If you were to do it like the Nyx Flashteases, it would go beneath the text pane, but above the buttons pane. Is this possible?

[kong]

Trusfrated, can u show us how u use it?
What program do u use, u got a download link? (what voice)

When GuideMe will work for Mac, We could use the built in system voice :) (ofc u can change it to a women voice)

[philo]

Trusfrated, can u show us how u use it?
What program do u use, u got a download link? (what voice)

When GuideMe will work for Mac, We could use the built in system voice :) (ofc u can change it to a women voice)

I tested it with this (see Trusfrated's earlier post)
http://www.sphenet.com/TTSReader/
The voices he used were commercial ones I think (http://www.neospeech.com/), but were compatible .

The voices that come free are a bit robotic, but work well if you can ignore that.

[andresku]

Ok guys,
First I would like to say hello everyone.

I am watching this thread as I liked TeaseMe Production and GuideMe I do like even more because of random pictures option, which makes a tease less predictable in the visual way. So in case of Skirmish Tease for example, you, (read: me..) can not get bored, as everytime I start it up it does not show exactly the same line of pictures...

My question is (I am not an html expert): can I upgrade teases made originally for TeaseMe software, so they can play random pictures too?(to play using GuideMe)
I tried to change pic id:= 1.jpg into pic id:= *.jpg
But it does not open any picture at all

What I am doing wrong?

Thank you for reading

[Trusfrated]

Trusfrated, can u show us how u use it?
What program do u use, u got a download link? (what voice)

When GuideMe will work for Mac, We could use the built in system voice :) (ofc u can change it to a women voice)

I tested it with this (see Trusfrated's earlier post)
http://www.sphenet.com/TTSReader/
The voices he used were commercial ones I think (http://www.neospeech.com/), but were compatible .

The voices that come free are a bit robotic, but work well if you can ignore that.

Pretty much what Philo said. TTSReader is free and has worked well for me. I know there are other clipboard readers available however, I tried a couple others and they didn't seem to be able to "see" all of my installed voices like TTSReader did. I read somewhere that it might be a 32/64 bit issue, where the voices were 32 bit but my OS is 64. Never been an issue for me because I just use TTSReader. It will "watch" the clipboard and automatically read when there is a change. Also, it has a pronunciation manager that allows you to "force" the way the voices interpret certain words. For instance, you can take the word "giggle" or "giggles" which tease authors often use and change it to be read as "he he he" to make it slightly more like a laugh.

The best voices, and the only voices that I'd say are worthwhile for listening to teases, are unfortunately commercial. There is a standard called SAPI which allows a voice to work with any SAPI4/SAPI5 compatible reader. I'm sure it would be against the TOS of this site for me to give you links to download these, but if you are familiar with certain sites that hosts torrents, you should be able to find any of them without much difficulty (Brewster linked one of them above).

Voices from Loquendo (Allison and Susan, recently acquired by Nuance), NeoSpeech (Kate and Julie ), and Acapela (Heather, Laura, and Bridget) are my favorites. I recommend you try the interactive demos I've linked here and see which ones sound good to you, and then try to seek them out.

Here is also a demo page with an avatar that includes all of the above voices and many more.

I'm still looking for Tracy and Ava, a couple newer ones that sound promising.

Hope that helps!

[d3vi0n]

GuideMe I do like even more because of random pictures option, which makes a tease less predictable in the visual way. (...) My question is (I am not an html expert): can I upgrade teases made originally for TeaseMe software, so they can play random pictures too?(to play using GuideMe)
I tried to change pic id:= 1.jpg into pic id:= *.jpg
But it does not open any picture at all

random pictures is nothing new in GuideMe. TeaseMe had this feature for a long time. I used it for many of my teases (see for example "The Challenge" or the Tutorial for TeaseMe). It should work the same way in GuideMe and TeaseMe and yes, id="*.jpg" should work (like id="*" or id="girl*.jpg"). Are there any pictures in the folder? TeaseMe and GuideMe only searches the specified folder, no subfolders of this folder. If you want a subfolder you have to use id="subfolder/*.jpg" or something similar.

[andresku]

GuideMe I do like even more because of random pictures option, which makes a tease less predictable in the visual way. (...) My question is (I am not an html expert): can I upgrade teases made originally for TeaseMe software, so they can play random pictures too?(to play using GuideMe)
I tried to change pic id:= 1.jpg into pic id:= *.jpg
But it does not open any picture at all

random pictures is nothing new in GuideMe. TeaseMe had this feature for a long time. I used it for many of my teases (see for example "The Challenge" or the Tutorial for TeaseMe). It should work the same way in GuideMe and TeaseMe and yes, id="*.jpg" should work (like id="*" or id="girl*.jpg"). Are there any pictures in the folder? TeaseMe and GuideMe only searches the specified folder, no subfolders of this folder. If you want a subfolder you have to use id="subfolder/*.jpg" or something similar.

ok, i think there was something wrong in the header, because when I used copy-paste technique it started to work. I replaced everything from top to the end of the first page from the original...
Probably i pressed some button and did not notice that while editing...
thank you for help anyway.

[bloodle8]

Small problem with the Skirmish tease... It's only showing two of my pictures! Are there size or file type constraints to the tease? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[philo]

Small problem with the Skirmish tease... It's only showing two of my pictures! Are there size or file type constraints to the tease? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Looking at the tease <Image id="random/*.jpg" /> would limit it to just .jpg files.
(I think this may have been fixed in a later version) but if you change it to
<Image id="random/*" /> it should pick up any file (I think there are about 4 places where you would need the change)

There shouldn't be a size limit and it uses a browser to display the image so any image that displays in your browser should work.

[LeadingEdge]

I am not able to view User Preferences or Guide Preferences in version 10 or 11. Does anyone else have this problem?

[philo]

I am not able to view User Preferences or Guide Preferences in version 10 or 11. Does anyone else have this problem?

https://mega.co.nz/#!VAA0iCAT!KFxLRmHys ... ZLAdryj38U

Make sure you have these in the same directory as your guideme.jar file.
The way user preferences work has changed it is now done by a "special" tease that can be edited.
It works like any other tease but can update user preferences which you can't normally do.

If you already have these and it still isn't working, I would need to see what is being written to the guideme.log to work out why.

[philo]

I am putting development on hold for guideme for a month.
I have another project I need to work on and work is very busy.
I will keep an eye on the thread and help out with the existing stuff but will not be adding anything new in the short term.

[masterstroke]

OK, clue me in...trying out GuideMe.

Downloaded viewer, tutorial, and guide test. They all work.

My question is how do you build a tease? There doesn't seem to be any files, source code or a location to put the code. Tried loading other files without any success.

Viewed the Guideme Wiki and the source code at github. I'm still lost.

Unfortunately, coding is not one of my strengths.

Am I missing some files? How do you get started?