Hi lingomasters!
I need to receive images from a webcam on the internet into
a director movie. (so no need of a webcam xtra)
The idea is simple:
I load the image into a castmember and reload it once in a while
(say, every 30 secs):
member(webimg).importFileInto("http: url of webcam image")
This
At 18:45 Uhr +0200 12.04.2004, thor wrote:
Do you have any tips on how to solve this problem?
as far as I remember there's a movie method 'cachedocverify'
it defaults to:
put cacheDocVerify()
-- #once
set it to #always like so:
cacheDocVerify #always
I can't tell how reliable it is across browser
what I usually do in such a case is to append a random-parameter to the
URL, which makes director bypass the cache:
-- in moviescript, e.g. on prepareMovie
the randomseed = the ticks
-- when updating image
member(webimg).filename= "http://webcamurl/foo.cgi?"; & random(the
maxinteger)
(url could
You have to do a fake random number on the end of the request for director
to see it as a new image, ie
http://camURL/image?203030
So something like
Tnum = random(9000)
TheUrl = theURL = "?" & tNum
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Or you could pass it the current yr/date/hr/min/sec as a string, since
you should be guaranteed that number won't come up twice :0) I think
buddy or DirectOS or the like has a handy function for getting the
seconds since the Unix epoch, useful as a timestamp as well.
ex w/buddy:
str_noCache = b
Dear thor,
There is an excellent illustrated example for
refreshing webcam image after a fixed time interval
at:
http://director-online.com/buildArticle.php?id=1067
Will Turnage had explained all about clearing
Director's web cache and has provided a working
shockwave demo too!!!
Regards,
Biju
