player object
Can anyone tell me if the movie player objects actually work? I dragged one out, set the filename to a quicktime movie on the desktop and I can play the movie if I state: start player will ...but I'm more interested in using the actual movie controller which is drawn below the movie yet is completely unresponsive to any of my requests to play the clip, fwd, back, volume etc. I'm running 2.5b1 build 3 on OSX 10.2.3 Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
RE: player object
= Original Message From Simon Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Can anyone tell me if the movie player objects actually work? I dragged one out, set the filename to a quicktime movie on the desktop and I can play the movie if I state: start player will ...but I'm more interested in using the actual movie controller which is drawn below the movie yet is completely unresponsive to any of my requests to play the clip, fwd, back, volume etc. I'm running 2.5b1 build 3 on OSX 10.2.3 Sincerely, Simon Hi Simon, Try setting the alwaysBuffer of the player to false. Rgds, Vikram ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: MetaCard 2.5 alpha 8
Ken, would it be possible to get a sample stack from you? In a past life I wrote a SuperCard stack that would display a movie in a card with a controller, the controller would have handles at either end (custom made SC controller). The first controller represented the 00:00:00 timecode while the end controller represented the end of the movie's timecode, ie 00:03:57 Moving these timecodes to the right or left allowed for the user to play just the selection *in-between* the timecodes. I have included a screenshot of that SC project below, hope that helps. Having said all this, I'm trying to find some samples in the MetaCard universe that would allow me to shave a few weeks off my development if I could find a stack which had a few basic samples such as: (1) How to get the movie length in time (so I can make set timecodes again) (2) How to play from timecode to timecode (if possible, maybe an alternative?) That's it really, maybe a few extras but it's late and I'm barely awake at this point in the email. In essence, I'm hoping for a *rosseta* MC stack that will instantly show me all the movie controls/handles MC can perform (aside from the obvious like, play, stop etc). From the email below, I take it you probably have worked out many of the issues I'm looking to develop for a small internal project. Thanks. PS: SuperCard 2.5 works fine in Classic. Had a bug where it would crash if you selected the Finder, but since it does not exist in Classic, it runs fine. Cool, cause I liked SuperEdit very much. inline: pastedGraphic1.tiff On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 10:12 PM, Ken Ray wrote: Scott, Any chance of getting the posterTime property for player objects (which returns the timepoint in the movie where the poster frame was defined) working for 2.5? Additionally we'd also spoken about a couple of other items: (1) the ability to grab a frame from a QT movie as image data so it could be stuck into an image object using the QT API call GetMoviePICT, and (2) an extension of the prepare command that would force MC to render a player object into its buffer before it was displayed so that one could have a hidden player object, set its currentTime to a specified time, and then show it, optionally with visual effects. I'm assuming the last two aren't in the works for 2.5, but I just wanted to remind you of them in the event that there was still some fleshing out to do on them. Thanks, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ - Original Message - From: Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 8:19 PM Subject: MetaCard 2.5 alpha 8 MetaCard 2.5 alpha-test 8 is now available in the directory: ftp://ftp.metacard.com/MetaCard/2.5/ See the file README.2.5 in that directory for the list of new features. The new debugging features of the engine are complete in this release, though the UI still needs a little tweaking. Now would be a good time to take it for a spin to get your must-have features in for the first beta-test release, due up next. Regards, Scott Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard Sincerely, Simon
Re: player object
Simon, MC can play movies in two modes: buffered or unbuffered. If the movie is unbuffered, the movie controller works properly and can be interacted with by the user. If the movie is buffered, the controller is view only, and any manipulations you do on a player (play, stop, etc.) needs to be done via script. For an buffered movie, set the alwaysBuffer of the movie to true. For an unbuffered movie, set it to false. Hope this helps, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ - Original Message - From: Simon Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MetaCard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 2:14 AM Subject: player object Can anyone tell me if the movie player objects actually work? I dragged one out, set the filename to a quicktime movie on the desktop and I can play the movie if I state: start player will ...but I'm more interested in using the actual movie controller which is drawn below the movie yet is completely unresponsive to any of my requests to play the clip, fwd, back, volume etc. I'm running 2.5b1 build 3 on OSX 10.2.3 Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Newbie bounding box print issue
Playing around with printing in MetaCard 2.4 on Win 2K I'm seeing an anomaly when printing a region (any region) of a card. Along the bottom and right edges of the printed region a border or bounding box about 2 pixels wide is being printed. The border does not appear along the left or top edges of the print region. The color is that of the Background color assigned to the stack. The printer is a color postscript Xerox and I just downloaded the latest drivers. The behavior is the same with old and new drivers. Printing to a Postscript file and converting the resulting Postscript to PDF with Acrobat yields the same results. Is this normal behavior? Is this something I can turn off or compensate for in some manner? Thanks for any suggestions. John J. Theobald ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Newbie - Ask print and filename
Is there a documented (or undocumented) procedure to invoke the system printer dialog in Windoze along with specifying a region to print? I am looking for something like: print this card from x,y to x2,y2 with answer printer ... to allow the user to select which printer to use. As a side note, anyone ever come across a way of getting the list of available printers on a Windoze system with or without a DLL. As a second side note (wheels turning as I type), is it possible to print multiple regions simultaneously on a single page. Thanks for any suggestions. John J. Theobald ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: [ANN] RevNet launched
Hey Don Gaskin, got your email and I think I figured out what the problem with RevNet is: I believe revGoURL is a Rev-only command and I'm using MetaCard. I don't believe the MC folks included revGoURL as a synonym in MC, unless you know something I don't. Or, perhaps you designed RevNet to be Revolution-compatible only and I didn't catch it. That would explain a lot... Anyway, Happy New Year to you, and again, nice work on RevNet. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.tactilemedia.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: [ANN] RevNet launched
--On Monday, December 30, 2002 9:44 PM -0800 Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Don Gaskin, got your email and I think I figured out what the problem with RevNet is: I believe revGoURL is a Rev-only command and I'm using MetaCard. I don't believe the MC folks included revGoURL as a synonym in MC, unless you know something I don't. Or, perhaps you designed RevNet to be Revolution-compatible only and I didn't catch it. That would explain a lot... This looks like it was meant for Don Gaskin's eyes only but nevertheless I second Scott's remarks, didn't work here either and looking at the script, it wasn't meant to work with Metacard. Did Richard post the announcement to the wrong list? Happy new year list! Anyway, Happy New Year to you, and again, nice work on RevNet. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.tactilemedia.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard Regards, Andu Novac ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: [ANN] RevNet launched
Scott Rossi wrote: Hey Don Gaskin, got your email and I think I figured out what the problem with RevNet is: I believe revGoURL is a Rev-only command and I'm using MetaCard. I don't believe the MC folks included revGoURL as a synonym in MC, unless you know something I don't. Or, perhaps you designed RevNet to be Revolution-compatible only and I didn't catch it. That would explain a lot... I'll answer here since this may be of interest to other RevNet users: The revGoURL handler, and its two necessary support handlers, are copied into the backscript that Go RevNet inserts. FWIW, the only issues reported have been in Rev, not in MC or running without the IDE in either Rev or MC, Mac or Win (I wanted it to be runnable by double-clicking it if desired). Also, all three of the people who've reported issues are power users -- I know a lot of reative newbies running without difficulty. It may also be a conflict with libURL -- make sure you have the latest (1.0.8). You can get it through RevNet's Stacks index, or from the Web site at http://www.RunRev.com/revolution/developers/interimreleases/liburl/releases .shtml. RevNet includes a copy of libUrl 1.0.8, renamed as revLibURL in an attemot to avoid conflicts. But now that I think about it, I wonder if it might be possible that some handlers are being triggered in one lib and other handlers in the other lib, thereby having two sets of values in the script-local vars used extensively throught the library. But given MC's description of how it handles load order for libs, that shouldn't be the problem either -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge 2.1: Publish any database on any site ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
