hi, I'm new to puredata and am wanting to use it for a project that would involve playing a sound file in a loop that the volume of is controlled by the position of the mouse cursor over a picture.

I've figured out how to generate a GEM window and read the x-y coordinates from it and I have a sound looping but I don't know how to connect the two.

Any help would be appreciated!

Hi p3te,

take a look at the attached patch, it might be what you are looking for. I didn't used GEM window. Just replace [osc~] object with your sound player and you'll be able to control the volume by moving the mouse up or down.

sinewave

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/mouse-vol.pd

... and don't forget to change the values for y axis in case your monitor is set to different resolution.

Thanks Sinewave, that's helped a lot and I've been using it to inform a new version of my original patch but I can't figure out how to do a couple of things.
I've attached the new patch to so you can see just how noob I am to this the sound won't work obviously unless the path and file used are changed.

What's baffling me is I can get a value for the X coordinate and have set a slider to adjust volume as the cursor approaches a certain coordinate (x = 955 in this case) but I cannot get a Y coordinate and I cannot figure out how to reduce the volume once the cursor moves past 955.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/audio_example.pd