Processing Experiment: Greeting Mouse Cursor

Greeting Mouse Cursor

For this experiment I chose to play around with the MousePress example where lines are drawn following the cursor and changes colors when the mouse is pressed. Here is the original example:

I was debating between the MousePress example and the Word example so I decided to combine both by having type follow the mouse instead of a shape. Some of the main things I changed were:

• Having the default shape/string be 'hi' with a bright and friendly background.
• When mouse is pressed, the string becomes 'bye' with the colors and background changing to be more ominous.
• Slowing down the frame rate and offsetting the x and y positions by 5 from the mouse position so that the words are legible and seem to "follow" the cursor. 
• Changing the font to Work Sans medium because that's my favorite font currently.
• Not having the string print permanently as the cursor moves.

Here is the result: 

This is the code: 

PFont f;

void setup() {

  size(640, 360);

  frameRate(15);

  

  //font

  printArray(PFont.list());

  f = createFont("WorkSans-Medium.ttf", 24);

  textFont(f);

}

void draw() {

  if (mousePressed) {

    background(0);

    fill(247,45,45);

    text("bye", mouseX-5, mouseY-5);

  } else {

    background(45, 210, 247);

    fill(255);

    text("hi", mouseX-5, mouseY-5);

  }

}