How to use externals
Dear All, I need to be able to call an external .exe file (XP) from a Rev stack. Can anyone point me in the right direction, and ideally, show me where in the documentation I need to go to sort this out for myself. I'm not sure what the 'trigger' word is: 'external'? Thus far I can't seem to find a simple example or guidance. Much appreciated, as ever. I know I am a net receiver on this list, but hope that will change in the fullness of time. -- All best wishes, Rob (Created at 08:29 on 23/06/2006) == Prof. Rob Beynon|+44 151 794 4312 (voice) Dept. Veterinary Preclinical|+44 151 794 4243 (fax) Sciences, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool L69 7ZJ |mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.liv.ac.uk/pfg|http://www.csiv.org == ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: How to use externals
Hi Rob, Dear All, I need to be able to call an external .exe file (XP) from a Rev stack. Can anyone point me in the right direction, and ideally, show me where in the documentation I need to go to sort this out for myself. I'm not sure what the 'trigger' word is: 'external'? Thus far I can't seem to find a simple example or guidance. Much appreciated, as ever. I know I am a net receiver on this list, but hope that will change in the fullness of time. check launch and/or open process... in the docs. I prefer ... open process standalone.exe for neither ... which worked fine for me over the years. :-) All best wishes, Rob (Created at 08:29 on 23/06/2006) == Prof. Rob Beynon|+44 151 794 4312 (voice) Dept. Veterinary Preclinical|+44 151 794 4243 (fax) Sciences, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool L69 7ZJ |mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.liv.ac.uk/pfg|http://www.csiv.org Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
[OT] A continuing pain
The over-generalising primate doesn't treat IT as a pronoun, the primate treats IT as a (very) temporary holder for a value . . . which the primate has reason to believe that that is what IT is. That is not the problem. The problem is that because the primate over-generalises it expects consistency . . The primate has experienced pain because of its over-generalising tendencies with the use of THE in xTalk: the vis, the backgroundColour, the shadow but not elsewhere . . . it seems that where over-generalisation causes the most problems is exactly with the very short, multi-purpose terms such as IT and THE. Human languages are never consistent and Mummy or Daddy corrects Junior when s/he uses the subjunctive in the wrong place (!!!). However the over-generalising primate has a definite feeling that xTalk is a bit like Esperanto - it has been constructed, rather than having evolved from earlier languages; or, at the very least, has been consistently built upon the foundations of an earlier constructed language (HyperTalk). Because of the constructed nature of xTalk the primate expects xTalk to behave both differently to its mother tongue and consistently. There are various ways around this: 1. develop a computer language where terms have no resemblance to any human languages ( Z2mblk, 66yk, eee6tl, bloody hell!), 2. Make sure that the constructed language does not contain any multi-purpose terms (such as IT) - and that each term has a one-to-one correspondence with one 'thing'. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson Philosophical problems are confusions arising owing to the fluidity of meanings users attach to words and phrases. Mathewson, 2006 - All New Yahoo! Mail Tired of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@! come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: video/audio capture and more
Hi Sivakatirswami, I was looking for a solution to record screen action to a mov file and I went through your message in the lista. Were you able to import screen action into Revolution at the end? Ciao Paolo Mazza (Italy) How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com writes: I was checking out video grabber. Am I correct that video grabber can only work with an external video input? i.e. we are not able to grab the current screen action as video and save it to a foo.mov file, along with the internal, USB mic feed at the same time SnapZPro is giving me trouble on attempts to save 1024 X 728 over 20 minutes... I guess the file is just so enormous as to be impossible. And that was on a G5 with a dual processor. I wrote Ambrozia software with a query about that but did not get a response. If anyone has solutions for the Mac to capture a full screen rect + live audio feed -- QT movie (20 minute presentations) let me know... goal is to send this to DVD format for final output via DVD players. Sivakatirswami ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: video/audio capture and more
Talking about video/audio capture ... How can I set audio recording from revolution? As far as I know I have two commands to set video recording revVideoGrabDialog revVideoGrabSettings but I have none to set audio recording? (in rev 2.7.2) Thanks Paolo Mazza How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com writes: Hi Sivakatirswami, I was looking for a solution to record screen action to a mov file and I went through your message in the lista. Were you able to import screen action into Revolution at the end? Ciao Paolo Mazza (Italy) How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com writes: I was checking out video grabber. Am I correct that video grabber can only work with an external video input? i.e. we are not able to grab the current screen action as video and save it to a foo.mov file, along with the internal, USB mic feed at the same time SnapZPro is giving me trouble on attempts to save 1024 X 728 over 20 minutes... I guess the file is just so enormous as to be impossible. And that was on a G5 with a dual processor. I wrote Ambrozia software with a query about that but did not get a response. If anyone has solutions for the Mac to capture a full screen rect + live audio feed -- QT movie (20 minute presentations) let me know... goal is to send this to DVD format for final output via DVD players. Sivakatirswami ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution Paolo Mazza NEOL SRL Via Calatafimi, 16 - 35137 PADOVA www.neol.it [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel 049-7386590 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: video/audio capture and more
Talking about video/audio capture... I tryed to set audio using command: RevSetVideoGrabAudio true, 1, 8, 11025 Unfortunately, it does not work in MACOSX and Rev 2.7.2 What I get, regardless of any setting, is a big file with audio set to: 16-bit Intero (Endian grande), Mono, 48,000 kHz ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RE: [OT] A continuing pain
the vis, the backgroundColour, the shadow Just be thankful noone has tried to enforce _exact_ rules for the articles (a, an, the). Best regards, Lynn Fredricks Worldwide Business Operations Runtime Revolution, Ltd ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Help the Stupid...
How can I get the name of the image being used as a button's icon? I can get the number, but I would really liek the name... Thanks, Edwin Gore ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Help the Stupid...
Try this : get icon of btn tButton put name of image id it D.S. Le 23 juin 06 à 17:06, Edwin Gore a écrit : How can I get the name of the image being used as a button's icon? I can get the number, but I would really liek the name... Thanks, Edwin Gore ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Help the Stupid...
Or, to make it shorter: put short name of image id (icon of btn tButton) D.S. Le 23 juin 06 à 17:06, Edwin Gore a écrit : How can I get the name of the image being used as a button's icon? I can get the number, but I would really liek the name... Thanks, Edwin Gore ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Help the Stupid...
Hi Edwin, How can I get the name of the image being used as a button's icon? I can get the number, but I would really liek the name... try this: ... put the short name of img ID (the icon of btn xyz) ... :-) Thanks, Edwin Gore Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Jerkiness to QTVR presentation in Revolution
I've noticed that when a Quicktime VR movie is played through Apple's Quicktime player the motion around 360 degrees is smooth. However, the same movie shown through Revolution's player results in a jerky stepping motion. Any suggestions? Thanks. Steve Goldberg ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
about media...
Folks, I am a Enterprise licensee, I received Rev Media as a Freebie because I went to RevConWest and I must say, I like it. I've already created little adventures with photos that don't mesh well, created kiosks for un existant things and am now playing on creating a portfolio for my cat. I am really enjoying this template thing, we should build more. Cheers andre ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
[OT] The nature of language
One of the things that needs to be debated is something that affects newbies and old-hands alike: In 1930 Ogden and Richards invented 'Basic English', an 850 core-English that could be (supposedly) learnt by any Epsilon Semi-Moron (to borrow a politically incorrect prase from Aldous Huxley - but a very 1930-ish phrase) in 60 hours: http://www.basic-english.org/ and once you have finished laughing yourself silly that 'stockings' is considered one of the basic 850 words you will see that they had some sort of at least semi-valid point. Of course, George Orwell mocked Ogden Richards with his Newspeak. NOW - imagine a core xTalk that enabled the newbie to get his/her feet wet incredibly rapidly (and not get blocked by the templates + drag-n-drop school of HyperStudio) but could then be extended to a fuller, richer, full-blown xTalk at a later stage. Um . . . full of holes . . . As George Orwell pointed out - the idea of Newspeak was to reduce speech to thought-stopping cliches - i.e. prevent any creativity whatsoever. What is super about xTalk is that it has space fro a tremendous amount of creativity just because, unlike Basic English and Newspeak, it is wobbly round the edges. However it is the wobbliness that may mean that xTalk becomes an increasingly coterie obsession, and increasingly inaccessible to new would-be xTalkers. The problem is that a rigid one-to-one semantically mapped language cannot then be unrigidified in mid-learning process without considerable psychological fall-out. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson Philosophical problems are confusions arising owing to the fluidity of meanings users attach to words and phrases. Mathewson, 2006 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: video/audio capture and more
Sivakatirswami- How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com writes: I was checking out video grabber. Am I correct that video grabber can only work with an external video input? i.e. we are not able to grab the current screen action as video and save it to a foo.mov file, along with the internal, USB mic feed at the same time SnapZPro is giving me trouble on attempts to save 1024 X 728 over 20 minutes... I guess the file is just so enormous as to be impossible. And that was on a G5 with a dual processor. I wrote Ambrozia software with a query about that but did not get a response. If anyone has solutions for the Mac to capture a full screen rect + live audio feed -- QT movie (20 minute presentations) let me know... goal is to send this to DVD format for final output via DVD players. Looks like I missed the original post of this one, but since there weren't any other responses online: 1024 x 728 is *way* too big for DVD format. I don't have my notes in front of me, but I think you'd be better off downsizing the video to one of the valid DVD formats, i.e., 720x480. This would also help with the capture size. And if SnapzPro will let you capture directly to mpeg format that would save you the pain of image conversion as well. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: video/audio capture and more
Sivakatirswami- ...and btw, trying to send email to you directly results in: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: host hindu.org.s7a1.psmtp.com [64.18.6.14]: 582 This message violates our email policy ...whatever that means -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [OT] A continuing pain
Richmond- Friday, June 23, 2006, 3:41:06 AM, you wrote: The problem is that because the primate over-generalises it expects consistency . . The primate has experienced pain because of its over-generalising tendencies with the use of THE in xTalk: the vis, the backgroundColour, the shadow I always thought the was used with properties, or with internal functions aliased to properties... Actually, I find the use of the much more consistent than trying to figure out the logic or syntax of in vs of. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [OT] The nature of language
Hi Richmond, I won't continue interacting about this... I don't want to make this thread into one of those ongoing things that everyone wishes would end. I just thought I should say this. Richmond Mathewson wrote: The problem is that a rigid one-to-one semantically mapped language cannot then be unrigidified in mid-learning process without considerable psychological fall-out. First, I'm respectfully aware that I don't understand everything you meant in your post. Given that, I continue... In the above quote, it seems to me that you're saying that in learning a language: 1) words generally don't have both simple and abstract meanings, and 2) starting with the concrete and moving toward the abstract is a bad idea. I couldn't disagree more. 1) Words generally derive the color and depth of their abstract meanings from their concrete roots - their 'first meanings'. 2) What you call 'psychological fall-out' I would call 'learning' or 'growth'. I believe one's attitude toward the phenomenon (as in life generally) makes it into a 'discovery' experience or a 'disaster' experience (with shades in between, of course). On the other hand, if this isn't what you're talking about, well... maybe I don't understand *anything* you meant! Thanks - Phil Davis ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: teleprompter application- reverse text, smooth scrolling?
Josh I sent you my little app by email offline. forgive my aweful UI... I was just beginning to refine it then we went in a different direction I don't now anything about mirror but perhaps some of my handlers may help. The speed issue is (obviously) directly related to font size, which then again is related to distance from speaker. My app assumes the users is sitting in front of his PC, (designed for recording) so, setting the font size to a large size and short line length (shortline length is important for easy reading) I can get a speed which works. Works in the sense that a speed can be set which is faster than anyone could or would want to read. The problem comes if you are trying to project the type from a distance, then you have to use a really big font and text-height, and then the number of words-lines visible on screen drops dramatically, and you really need to crank up the scroll speed. I couldn't find any way to get the thing to scroll fast enough-smoothly. A single pixel increment sent on a 1 millisecond loop, I believe is the smoothest you can get and the fastest you can get. Of course, you can increase the scroll increment unit in the script to 3-5 pixels, but then the text jitters vertically very badly. If you have a solution I would love to know what it is. Sivakatirswami On Jun 21, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Josh Mellicker wrote: Has anyone ever tried to make a teleprompter in Rev? You would need a way to mirror-reverse text, which I cannot find, or a mirror font... And, a way to make scrolling pixel-smooth... ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Application Icon Requirements
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think, based on the subject, that he is looking for a way to create the icons that appear on the application file, for example -- OS- level icons? If you are on Mac OS X, you might look in Apple's Developer Tools, under /Developer/Applications/Utilities, for a little utility called Icon Composer -- that will only work for Mac OS X icons, though. For cross-platform icon work under Mac OS X, there is a shareware program called Iconographer, which can generate icons for both Mac OS X and Windows. Also, if you are just trying to create icons to use on the stacks themselves, for buttons on cards and so forth, just create them as image icons -- they can be imported from files, pasted onto the cards, whatever -- then get the id property of the icon. Use that as the icon number in the property inspector for the button. On Jun 14, 2006, at 11:09 AM, mfstuart wrote: Hi Tom, Doesn't Studio itself have paint tools to do what you want? On the Tools palette, clcik the little up arrow in the bottom right corner. That extends the palette and offers an almost complete set of graphic tools. Anyone able to offer more on this? Mark -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Application- Icon-Requirements-t1783739.html#a4866821 Sent from the Revolution - User forum at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEnE1jRS7sy0VSQ1gRAq3vAJ0UUCUptV7H9qVj3mwkOKviSrRVJACfa/qf KyvPxlF70m6FZG2P8C8B/oQ= =PeoK -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ $0 Web Hosting with up to 200MB web space, 1000 MB Transfer 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much more. Signup at www.doteasy.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: PDFs displayed in Player!
We have done a lot of work and research into this area. Like Dan says: we love and use PDF's (Hinduism Today Digital Edition is build on launch PDF into Acrobat reader) Unfortunately, relying on PDF as a core for delivery is fraught with issues. e.g. if you think that Great Adobe, has provided flawless functionality in the much touted interactive media delivery system from inside PDF's you will be sadly disappointed, it fails as often as it works on any number of machines both on the mac and windows side. Error feedback is remarkably lame e.g. if the user is not connected to the internet and so cannot view external media from a web server, Adobe just throws a generic error, making you the producer, look like you did something wrong... there's more, but I will save it We use Dan Schafers little script to call cmd.exe on Windows to launch PDF's into Acrobat reader, but I'm getting complaints that on some windows systems, even this does not work. And debugging this from a distance. Is very difficult to say the least. And, the Acrobat work group at Adobe is very much focused on the windows side and mac implementation of PDF from within Acrobat reader itself is very sluggish by comparison. We are at the mercy of Titans in a war where greed rules, and let's get together and make things compatible is a blacklisted policy. It's amazing to me that Rev does as well as it does do with this cross platform business. if you are really serious about this you need to spend some big bucks and implement the Apple SDK suite for PDF on the Mac (very rich options) and 3rd party SDK's for PDF on Windows. (There's a great company in California build on source code from Asia where this is big stuff) you won't get in an out for under $50,000.00 to get all the functionality you might want. And, in a similar vein, after months of research on video delivery and codecs and cross-platform delivery and talking to consultants... we all came to the same conclusion: you really only have one option Quicktime, and you have to live within those parameters. of course if you have you can try going the Macromedia way with the Flash codec, then that is a path fraught with boulders and you need really, really deep pockets. Scott Raney made the right move in adopting QT years ago. And expecting QT to be Acrobat is just a wrong expectation... rather look at it like this: Apple is an innovative company that has no problem engineering for compatibility, MS doesn't look at life like that at all, that's not Rev's problem. Sivakatirswami On Jun 22, 2006, at 12:46 PM, Ton Kuypers wrote: It would be very nice to have a preview of imported PDF files, but for now I just leave it as a feature request for a next version when RR handles PDF internally, without relying on Quicktime... ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: video/audio capture and more
Aloha Paola: After further research on the matter we are going to get (got one... testing now) a scan converter (hardware) that takes a DV signal from any source and outputs to any destination. to capture both visual and audio for a rect of say 800 X 600 pixels with any quality, for say.. 20 minutes... you are talking about a *huge* amt of data and CPU power. I talked to the senior production manager at Total Training in New York (we use a lot of their CBT DVD's) and after describing our needs he said that tools on-board tools just won't be able to handle it. They use a $25,000 scan converter there (Yikes! not in our budget) but he had some other recommendations for $1,000.00 that he said would do well Apple Education recommended a Canopus box $500.00 if you can qualify for edu, which we do... but we are not very happy with the output and just in the middle of R D on this whole thing...but the concept is marvelous, you plug your computer into the box, run your presentation, and the output from the box goes to a DVD recorder (or anything else you care to wire up... ) Changing the audio codec doesn't get you much... in experiments with QT here, 80% of the data is in the video stream, at least with my few tests, but I'm no expert... we are kind of fumbling along with this research. If anyone can chime in here that would be great. It would really be a huge feature bump if Revolution could actually dump to QT run time... but, I think, as I often do, that I'm asking for moon cheese. Sivakatirswami On Jun 23, 2006, at 3:45 AM, paolo mazza wrote: Talking about video/audio capture... I tryed to set audio using command: RevSetVideoGrabAudio true, 1, 8, 11025 Unfortunately, it does not work in MACOSX and Rev 2.7.2 What I get, regardless of any setting, is a big file with audio set to: 16-bit Intero (Endian grande), Mono, 48,000 kHz ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: about media...
Andre Garzia wrote: I am a Enterprise licensee, I received Rev Media as a Freebie because I went to RevConWest and I must say, I like it. I've already created little adventures with photos that don't mesh well, created kiosks for un existant things and am now playing on creating a portfolio for my cat. I am really enjoying this template thing, we should build more. That would be cool, but as I understand it even the most experienced Enterprise developers are excluded from creating Media templates because of Media's unique file format. But of course it would be even more beneficial for RunRev than us to be able to make new templates for Media -- is there a way to do that? -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
[ANN] Image Filter Demo
While I am still trying to bring my Image Filter Tool into a presentable format - I think I will need another two or three weeks before going public - I offer a preview gallery that I have just uploaded to http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia: Scroll down at the left until link Image Filter Gallery or go directly to http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia/ImageFilterGallery.htm. Some of the applied filters are adapted from 3X3 to 9X9 matrix formats, others had to be scripted from scratch (like the Kuwahara filter) for Revolution, a number of created filters were transferred from my Colorpattern Toolkit and adapted to the handling of imagedata. Filters greater than 3X3 or such filters that use additional factors (like the bias or offset values needed for instance to create reliefs) cannot be used with Derek Bump's or Chipp's Windows DLL, but all filters - including the 3X3 format - can also be used without any external, meaning that they can be used on any platform with a number of no-external routines. I have now streamlined the no-external scripts for applying the filters down to 7 seconds (2 GHz Windows computer) on the average. Many of the filters that do not apply matrices at all can be much faster, up to less than 1 second. To reduce execution time from the original 90 seconds of the no-external script I started with, one of the steps was to abandon the intermediate use of arrays, another to take a number of computations out of loops. The latest gain in speed occurred when I substituted # put binaryEncode(,255,tRed,tGreen,tBlue) after tconvData by put numtochar(tRed) into char (ti + (tj+2)) of tconvdata put numtochar(tGreen) into char (ti + (tj+3)) of tconvdata put numtochar(tBlue) into char (ti + (tj+4) )of tconvdata. This caused a speed gain of two seconds alone. I may also be mentioned that many filters are slower - by 20 to 33 % - in the Revolution IDE compared to the Metacard IDE. Standalones show the same difference of speed. There are also many filters not shown in the gallery that make extensive use of mirroring, enlarging, decreasing, stretching, duplicating parts of images and many forms of color change. I has been an interesting and educating exercise for me to gain some insights about filters mostly by intensive web searches. I repeat my query for more and improved externals for faster filter handling. I very much doubt I could familiarize myself with the art of producing DLLs in the near future, so I hope for support from other list members or even from the Revolution crew. Best regards, Wilhelm Sanke ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: teleprompter application- reverse text, smooth scrolling?
Hi, The application will usually be the talent looking through a piece of one-way glass directly at the camera lens, so the text must be pretty huge... I'm going to try Jim Ault's code and will report back. Josh On Jun 23, 2006, at 2:39 AM, Sivakatirswami wrote: Josh I sent you my little app by email offline. forgive my aweful UI... I was just beginning to refine it then we went in a different direction I don't now anything about mirror but perhaps some of my handlers may help. The speed issue is (obviously) directly related to font size, which then again is related to distance from speaker. My app assumes the users is sitting in front of his PC, (designed for recording) so, setting the font size to a large size and short line length (shortline length is important for easy reading) I can get a speed which works. Works in the sense that a speed can be set which is faster than anyone could or would want to read. The problem comes if you are trying to project the type from a distance, then you have to use a really big font and text-height, and then the number of words-lines visible on screen drops dramatically, and you really need to crank up the scroll speed. I couldn't find any way to get the thing to scroll fast enough- smoothly. A single pixel increment sent on a 1 millisecond loop, I believe is the smoothest you can get and the fastest you can get. Of course, you can increase the scroll increment unit in the script to 3-5 pixels, but then the text jitters vertically very badly. If you have a solution I would love to know what it is. Sivakatirswami On Jun 21, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Josh Mellicker wrote: Has anyone ever tried to make a teleprompter in Rev? You would need a way to mirror-reverse text, which I cannot find, or a mirror font... And, a way to make scrolling pixel-smooth... ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Jerkiness to QTVR presentation in Revolution
On Jun 23, 2006, at 10:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that when a Quicktime VR movie is played through Apple's Quicktime player the motion around 360 degrees is smooth. However, the same movie shown through Revolution's player results in a jerky stepping motion. Any suggestions? Thanks. What version of Rev are you using? In 2.7 there is a qtIdleRate global property. It defaults to 50. For QTVR you might want to try something like 10. You could put something like this in your player object. local sDefaultIdleRate on mouseDown put the qtIdleRate into sDefaultIdleRate set the qtIdleRate to 10 end mouseDown on mouseUp set the qtIdleRate to sDefaultIdleRate end mouseUp -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Learning Systems - www.bluemangolearning.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: teleprompter application- reverse text, smooth scrolling?
FYI the technical term for the glass is 'Beam Splitter'. Should be 50% reflection and 50% transmission Hi, The application will usually be the talent looking through a piece of one-way glass directly at the camera lens, so the text must be pretty huge... I'm going to try Jim Ault's code and will report back. Josh -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - - ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: about media...
Richard Gaskin wrote: Andre Garzia wrote: I am a Enterprise licensee, I received Rev Media as a Freebie because I went to RevConWest and I must say, I like it. I've already created little adventures with photos that don't mesh well, created kiosks for un existant things and am now playing on creating a portfolio for my cat. I am really enjoying this template thing, we should build more. That would be cool, but as I understand it even the most experienced Enterprise developers are excluded from creating Media templates because of Media's unique file format. If you mean the 2.7 file format on disk, Media can read any stack produced by any edition of Revolution. Enterprise users could write templates as long as they knew the specs for the template stacks. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: about media...
J. Landman Gay wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: Andre Garzia wrote: I am a Enterprise licensee, I received Rev Media as a Freebie because I went to RevConWest and I must say, I like it. I've already created little adventures with photos that don't mesh well, created kiosks for un existant things and am now playing on creating a portfolio for my cat. I am really enjoying this template thing, we should build more. That would be cool, but as I understand it even the most experienced Enterprise developers are excluded from creating Media templates because of Media's unique file format. If you mean the 2.7 file format on disk, Media can read any stack produced by any edition of Revolution. Enterprise users could write templates as long as they knew the specs for the template stacks. Cool - thanks for the clarification. Currently Media is a sort of all you can eat buffet, with little market overlap among templates. Is there an area we might focus on to help target a specific market segment? -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: about media...
Richard Gaskin wrote: Currently Media is a sort of all you can eat buffet, with little market overlap among templates. Is there an area we might focus on to help target a specific market segment? I don't know. To be honest, I haven't really had much time to even look at Media, but the Rev team would be the people to ask. I really *should* go look at Media, actually, because my parrots are in it. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
