LCC6310 Projects, Fall 2004

Code

/*
What is your computer thinking right now? What would it say if it had a mind of its own?

Using that as a start point, this is a scenario where your
computer ‘talks’ to you – random questions, comments or even just expressing annoyance…

You are then given a chance to respond  - at which time, the computer reverts with an answer
that can be clarity personified or (as one of my room mates put it) – obfuscated convolutions.

This project is inspired in part by an article I read on James Joyce’s last work – Finnegan’s Wake. 
In the Wake, Joyce uses language like that of a dream – “full of meaning and yet, not conscious 
or fully formed, shimmering with layers of possible meaning”

To me, the way this program functions, is a variation on that theme – to the same question, no 
two people will respond the same way and the computer will never revert with the same answer – 
and the interpretation of that unique conversation is well…unique. 
*/


String displayedText = new String();
String temp;
Vector words=new Vector();
float r=random(1); //for questions
boolean flag1=false;

void setup()
{
  size(700,500);
  framerate(24);
  fill(255,255,0);
  stroke(255,255,0);
}

void loop()
{
  background(0);

  BFont m = loadFont("Futura-Light.vlw.gz");
  textFont (m,30);
  
  text("Talk to me. I will reply....", 30,50);
  text("whether you can make sense of my obviously ", 30,80);
  text("superior repartee remains to be seen", 30,110);
  
  int len = displayedText.length();
  for(int i = 0; i< len; i++)
  {
    text(displayedText,30,230); //The position of answers
  }
  
  String lines[] = loadStrings("question.txt"); //The Questions
  text(lines[(int)(r*lines.length)],30,200);
  
  line(10,430,690,430); //Instructions
  textFont (m,20);  
  text("[ TO LIKE(?!!) THIS PROGRAM, IT HELPS IF YOUR RESPONSE HAS AT LEAST THREE WORDS ]", 60,450);
  text("[ Press Enter after typing in response. Press Enter again to clear screen ]  [ Left click & hold to see samples ]", 30,480);
  
  if (mousePressed==true)  //Examples
  {
  background(0);
  textFont(m,20);
  text("-- Responses From The Far Side --",30,40);
  text("question: Why are you here?",30,70);
  text("typed: because i need you to work",30,90);  
  text("response: need is amazing i am jolted",30,110);  

  text("question: What happened yesterday?",30,150);
  text("typed: was dull and dead day",30,170);  
  text("response: was restless dead and was I",30,190); 
  
  text("question: Should you leave now?",30,230);
  text("typed: yes i probably should go",30,250);  
  text("response: yes fantastic yes kicked go lost",30,270); 
  
  text("question: What is there for me now?",30,310);
  text("typed: there is a fantastic view",30,330);  
  text("response: you called view a ugly is",30,350);   
  
  text("question: Is this the Starship Enterprise?",30,390);
  text("typed: yes",30,410);  
  text("response: yes yes super yes yes yield",30,430);  
    
  }
  
}


void keyPressed()        //Action Listener
{
  char typedKey = (char)key;
  if(typedKey != 8)
  {
    displayedText = displayedText+typedKey;
  }
  else
  {
    String add = "";
    for(int k = 0 ;k < displayedText.length()-1 ; k++)
    {
      add += displayedText.charAt(k);
    }
    displayedText = add;
  }
  
  if(typedKey==10) //Actions to be performed on Enter
  {
    if(!flag1)
    {
    StringTokenizer wordFinder =new StringTokenizer(displayedText); //Viva Google. Breaks up typed answer into seperate words

    while(wordFinder.hasMoreTokens())
      {
        temp = wordFinder.nextToken();
        words.add(temp);
      }
        displayedText = "";

      String starter[] = loadStrings("start.txt");    
      String insert[] = loadStrings("verb.txt");
      String end[] = loadStrings("adjective.txt");
      float m=random(words.size());
      float c=random(1);
      float d=random(1);
      float e=random(1);
      displayedText = displayedText.concat(starter[(int)(c*starter.length)])+ ' ';       
      displayedText = displayedText.concat(insert[(int)(d*insert.length)])+' ';       
      displayedText = displayedText.concat((String) words.get((int)m))+ '.'+' ';   
      m=random(words.size());
      displayedText = displayedText.concat((String) words.get((int)m)) + ' ';   
      displayedText = displayedText.concat(end[(int)(e*end.length)]) + ' ';     
      m=random(words.size());
      displayedText = displayedText.concat((String) words.get((int)m)) + ' ';   

      println(displayedText);
      flag1 = true;

   }
  else
   {
      println(flag1);

      displayedText = "";//Clears the previous answers
      words.removeAllElements();//Empties the Vector object
      r=random(1);  //Choose the next question
      flag1 = false;
    }
  
  }

}