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Today's Topics:
1. Re: DIR MX 2004 questions (Alex da Franca)
2. Re: DIR MX 2004 questions (Danny Kodicek)
3. Re: DIR MX 2004 questions (Alex da Franca)
4. RE: DIR MX 2004 questions (Thomas Higgins)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 17:27:30 +0100
From: Alex da Franca <da.Franca@(protected)>
Subject: Re: [Dir3d-l] DIR MX 2004 questions
To: dir3d-l@(protected)
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At 13:45 Uhr +0100 07.01.2004, S�bastien Portebois wrote:
>Hi Alex and Danny
>
>>>How about the bug where embedded fonts cause a crash on Eastern European
>>>OS's?
>>
>>actually you only need to set font antialias to true to get the crash.
>>no need to use embedded fonts.
>>dunno either, if it has been addressed.
>
>I have this issue right now. Is there anything
>else to fix? only settings all text member
>antialias to FALSE is enough? (no double-byte OS
>to test... damn, dififcult to find out the
>origin!)
>Is there a hidden technote about that?
>Is it only tru for on-stage text members or for ALL members?
in my case it did only crash the authoring
environment. in runtime the only thing is, that
you simply get blank text members (which in my
case lead to script errors, when the image taken
from the textmember was height and width = 0...)
so I ended up with a hacky script to determine,
if the problem was present or not (rather to have
the text without antialias for ALL users). I then
stored the result in a 'global variable', in
order to do the test only once.
here it is:
moviescript "commonMovieScript":
property pAAEnabled
on mCheckForTextAA
retval = (script "commonMovieScript"). pAAEnabled
if voidP(retval) then
retval = 0
temptext = new(#text)
temptext.fontsize = 14
temptext.text = "I"
img = temptext.image.extractAlpha()
img = img.trimwhitespace()
w1 = img.width
if w1 > 0 then
temptext.antialias = 1
temptext.antialiasThreshold = 10
temptext.kerning = 1
temptext.kerningThreshold = 10
temptext.text = "I"
img = temptext.image.extractAlpha()
img = img.trimwhitespace()
w2 = img.width
retval = (abs(w2 - w1) < 2)
end if
if not retval then
repeat with n = the number of castlibs down to 1
repeat with m = the number of members of castlib n down to 1
thisMem = member(m, n)
if thisMem.type = #text then
thisMem.antialias = 0
thisMem.kerning = 0
end if
end repeat
end repeat
end if
end if
return retval
end
now whenever you set the anti-alias of a #text member set it like so:
member("myText").antialias = somevalue * mCheckForTextAA()
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 16:37:57 -0000
From: "Danny Kodicek" <dragon@(protected)>
Subject: Re: [Dir3d-l] DIR MX 2004 questions
To: <dir3d-l@(protected)>
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> > How about the bug where embedded fonts cause a crash on
> > Eastern European OS's?
>
> I believe that this one has been fixed and verified by our German QA on a
> variety of systems. I do seem to recall that once this was fixed there
were
> a few visual glitches that were found (characters not rendering
correctly),
> but I don't immediately recall what the status of those issues is at this
> time (we're not done just yet!).
That's great news - does that mean that existing SW content will work
correctly when viewed with the new player?
Danny
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 17:31:21 +0100
From: Alex da Franca <da.Franca@(protected)>
Subject: Re: [Dir3d-l] DIR MX 2004 questions
To: dir3d-l@(protected)
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sorry, I forgot an important line (store the result for later use)
since my own handler differs a little bit to fit
in my other handlers I rewrote it for you and
forgot that line...
moviescript "commonMovieScript":
property pAAEnabled
on mCheckForTextAA
retval = (script "commonMovieScript"). pAAEnabled
if voidP(retval) then
retval = 0
temptext = new(#text)
temptext.fontsize = 14
temptext.text = "I"
img = temptext.image.extractAlpha()
img = img.trimwhitespace()
w1 = img.width
if w1 > 0 then
temptext.antialias = 1
temptext.antialiasThreshold = 10
temptext.kerning = 1
temptext.kerningThreshold = 10
temptext.text = "I"
img = temptext.image.extractAlpha()
img = img.trimwhitespace()
w2 = img.width
retval = (abs(w2 - w1) < 2)
end if
if not retval then
repeat with n = the number of castlibs down to 1
repeat with m = the number of members of castlib n down to 1
thisMem = member(m, n)
if thisMem.type = #text then
thisMem.antialias = 0
thisMem.kerning = 0
end if
end repeat
end repeat
end if
(script "commonMovieScript"). pAAEnabled = retval
end if
return retval
end
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:47:24 -0800
From: Thomas Higgins <thiggins@(protected)>
Subject: RE: [Dir3d-l] DIR MX 2004 questions
To: "'dir3d-l@(protected)'"
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> That's great news - does that mean that existing SW content will work
> correctly when viewed with the new player?
Under the new Shockwave player that's to be release it will, but your old
content under the old player will not. I'm not clear on whether you can
author your movie in Director MX 2004, mark the newest Text/Font Xtras for
auto-download (thus branding your movie to need v10 copies of those), then
publish your DCR as an 8.5 DCR (oooh, did I mention the ability to publish
from DMX2004 to the Shockwave 8.5/MX player? yep, that's in there) and have
the 8.5 player download and use those Xtras. Hmmmm, sounds like I've got an
interesting test case to consider... :)
Cheers,
Tom Higgins
Product Specialist - Director Team
Macromedia
Announcing Director MX 2004, de lekkerste!
http://www.macromedia.com/software/director
...
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