Movie Generation issues
I found and corrected the setScriptList problem I mentioned in a DirectL post about such, but have two issues still open in this movie-generating-a-movie attempt. I’m posting them to see if anyone has had any confirming experience, or can see what is wrong with the approach.
First, sprite naming during score recording does not stick. In the following Lingo snippet the sprite(n).name statement do not cause an error, but don’t accomplish anything either.
The second issue is with creating a new member for the movie to be generated. If one imports an animated gif during authoring, the member type choice of bitmap or animated gif is given. However, if one uses importFileInto (as below) at run time, the member type of bitmap is assigned despite the newMember designation. The member type can’t, of course, be subsequently changed. So unless I’m missing something, animated gif members can’t be created at run time.
Otherwise, everything else works fine in the following. I could work around not having names for the new sprites, but not the choice of gif animations (save trying a different type of animation).
-- new optional animated GIF cast member
GIFmem = _movie.newMember(#animgif).importFileInto(_movie.path & "Outhouse.gif")
-- Score Recording
_movie.updateLock = TRUE
_movie.beginRecording()
_movie.go(1)
_movie.clearFrame()
_movie.frameScript = FBmem
sprite(1).member = member("Outhouse")sprite(1).ink = 36
sprite(1).name = "GIFanim"
sprite(2).member = member("WarnText")sprite(2).tweened = FALSE
sprite(2).ink = 36
sprite(2).name = "WarnMsg"
_movie.updateFrame()
_movie.endRecording()
-- erase this original movie script
member("OrigMS").erase()-- Save New Movie
_movie.saveMovie(_movie.path & "TestMovie.dir")
-- Quit
_player.quit()
Thank you,
Lee C
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