Julian date functions
Thanks to Nelson Zink and David Jones for their code snippets for converting Julian dates. Below are two functions derived from Nelson Zink's code to go from standard date format to Julian and back again. I've modified the code into functions, changed the variable names to minimize potential name space conflicts, and added local declarations so they'll work with or without explicitvars on: -- -- Date2Julian -- -- Accepts any valid date format and returns a -- Julian date value. -- Derived from original code by Nelson Zink. -- function Date2Julian pDate local tYear, tMonth, tDay, aa, bb, cc, dd convert pDate to dateitems put item 1 of pDate into tYear put item 2 of pDate into tMonth put item 3 of pDate into tDay if tMonth<=2 then add 12 to tMonth subtract 1 from tYear end if put trunc(tYear/100) into aa put (2-aa+trunc(aa/4)) into bb put trunc(365.25*tYear) into cc put trunc(30.6001*(tMonth+1)) into dd return (bb+cc+dd+tDay+1720995) end Date2Julian -- -- Julian2Date -- -- Accepts a Julian number and returns a Gregorian -- date in the format MM/DD/. -- Derived from original code by Nelson Zink. -- function Julian2Date pJulianDate local tYear, tDay, tMonth, aa, bb, cc, dd, ee, gg put trunc((pJulianDate-1867216.25)/36524.25) into aa put pJulianDate+1+aa-trunc(aa/4) into bb Put bb+1524 into cc put trunc((cc-122.1)/365.25) into dd put trunc(365.25*dd) into ee put trunc((cc-ee)/30.6001) into gg put cc-ee-trunc(30.6001*gg) into tDay if gg<13.5 then put gg-1 into tMonth else put gg-13 into tMonth if tMonth>2.5 then put dd-4716 into tYear else put dd-4715 into tYear return tMonth&"/"&tDay&"/"&tYear end Julian2Date -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717AIM: FourthWorldIncFax: 323-225-0716 Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
record, buggy...
I've found that the record feature in 2.4 is pretty buggy. Has anyone else been experimenting with this, if so I would be interested in your experiences and comments... My setup: Mac OS 9.1, QuickTime 5.02 MC 2.4. Recipe: Make a simple stack with a record and play button and a player object. Record from external microphone (set input and test levels in sound control panel). "Record to file fi using dialog". In the second button stop recording and set filepath of player 1 to the file. Play sound file using "start player 1" What I found: high pitched digital distortion squeeks and squeals in the sound file. Speed/pitch distortion (probably due to assumptions about sample rates). Metacard also crashed once with an address error when I was trying this Rodney -- -- Rodney Tamblyn Educational Media group Higher Education Development Centre, 75 Union Place University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand ph +64 3 479 7580 Fax +64 3 479 8362 http://hedc.otago.ac.nz ~ http://rodney.weblogs.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
FTP setup considerations
Thanks, Michael! BTW, for anyone interested in using the precious new FTP syntax, my experience is that the following appear to increase transmission robustness rather significantly: on prepFTP # sanity check: if not (the stacksinUse contains "libURL") then start using stack "libURL" # circumvents annoying "socket timeout" error set socketTimeoutInterval to 10 # close pending sockets send "resetAll" to stack "libURL" end prepFTP I'm not finished poring through libURL's code, so I can't tell yet what the implications are -- e.g., is it wise to check through all cachedURLs to ensure that nothing is pending prior to calling "resetAll"? I don't know, but Michael's work may already supercede this. -Francisco --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a modification of Andu's FTP stack that uploads/displays > files on a > server. Anyone interested, let me know. My only request is that > people let me > know of any good modifications to the stack. I don't have a > server so if > someone can put it on their server, it may be more available. > Michael > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ > Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm > Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list. > __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
Stepping through a Quicktime Movie
Am I missing something obvious? How can you step through a quicktime movie, frame by frame (NextInterestingTime-no audio) IF THE FRAME RATE is NOT Constant. Is there a "step" command that I am missing? All I really want is the total number of frames in a movie. Thanks! -ml -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
Re: FTP
I have a modification of Andu's FTP stack that uploads/displays files on a server. Anyone interested, let me know. My only request is that people let me know of any good modifications to the stack. I don't have a server so if someone can put it on their server, it may be more available. Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
