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- From: sakelley@euclid.ucsd.edu (Scott Kelley)
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- Subject: Re: QuickTime, Director, Closing Windows
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- Date: 10 Sep 92 17:52:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep10.173941.10737@waikato.ac.nz>, ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
- > In article <37864@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, sakelley@euclid.ucsd.edu (Scott Kelley) writes:
- > > I'm working on a large multimedia project with MacroMind Director. Since
- > > Director's QuickTime support leaves something to be desired (it's buggy)
- >
- > Uh-oh. And here I was looking forward to my 3.1 upgrade... :-{
-
- Yes, there are a number of bugs in Director 3.1, but we haven't been
- bitten by them enough times to have them well defined yet. There's some
- kind of problem with printing a frame of the stage that has a QuickTime
- castmember on it (it consistently dropped me into MacsBug when I tried
- it) and there are also some strange things about Palettes when using two
- monitors, and some strange things about Palettes and QuickTime movies
- that are being dithered by QuickTime down to 8 bits. But, all in all,
- the bugs in Director 3.0 were worse (like the
- destroy-a-bitmap-as-you-scroll-it-in-the-paint-window bug and, my
- personal favorite, the "save as"-destroys-original-file bug.)
-
- > > My XObject is very simple: It gets two numbers and a string as
- > > parameters, opens the movie filename found in the string, and plays it
- > > with the upper left corner in the coordinates specified. So far so good.
- > > Problem: When I call CloseWindow to dispose of the window after I've
- > > played the movie, QuickDraw erases the region that had the movie in it,
- > > and puts a white rectangle there instead.
- >
- > Did you actually open your own window, rather than playing the movie in
- > Director's stage window? Does the latter not work? It's just that I've seen
- > an example Director movie which did exactly this, using the Apple/Claris
- > QTMovie external. Even worked with Director 2.0.1, too.
-
- Gee, actually that never occurred to me. I was following Apple's sample
- code, and THEY opened a window, so I did too. I'll try doing it without
- opening a window and see what happens. I'll let you know...
-
- I never tried using the QTMovie externals... I only tried the QTPict
- ones for JPEG, and I couldn't get it to work...
-
- > If you really have to open your own window, I guess one thing to try is
- > save the bits behind it, and restore them after closing the window. Director
- > will still get an update event and redraw that area, but this is probably
- > not worth worrying about.
-
- Actually, I started out worrying most about JPEG images, since our
- project has a lot of scanned slides, and we'd like to have people with
- high bit depth monitors (16bit or better) see the images in full color.
- Plus the JPEG compressed 24-bit images are about the same size as the
- 8-bit images as castmembers. We can bring up JPEG pictures by doing a
- link to a pict file, but unfortunately director always stores HARD links
- (i.e. full pathnames) and so it can't find the images when we install
- our software on other machines. And we don't want the user to get that
- "please find this file..." dialog! Why can't Director use the alias
- manager? Or do you know some way of making "link to file" work more
- flexibly?
-
- > Lawrence D'Oliveiro fone: +64-7-856-2889
- > Computer Services Dept fax: +64-7-838-4066
- > University of Waikato electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz
- > Hamilton, New Zealand 37^ 47' 26" S, 175^ 19' 7" E, GMT+12:00
-
- Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try them today and let you know how it
- goes...
-
- Scott
-
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- Scott Kelley, sakelley@ucsd.edu, (619) 534-8560
- Multimedia Interactive Learning Laboratory (MILL)
- Department of Biology, UC San Diego
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