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Thank you Grant Can you send me more information about the developpement product that you provide in this field including price. We have a lot of animation with sound coming from different source that we have to include or convert into our aplication which are written in VB or VISUAL…
Thank you Grant BTW : Does ADESK will abandon AAPLAY to the benefit of QT or AVI or are you planning to do something else ??. I just learn thatKent Sandvik the DTS leader on Quicktime left Apple fo Silicon Graphics ……….. Olivier
>> I don't believe that there is a way to stop the loop on the last frame. About the best you can do is have a separate file that you bring up.
stop aaplay in vb
Message #191944
We are consulting all the documentation for aaplay without succes to find the way to stop the annimation loop on the last frame. How can we do that with an FLC ? Is there some improvement in aaplay toolkit since version 1.02, documentation dated from december 16, 1991 Olivier
#gpf in aaplay
Message #167136
this is the drwatson log file of a GPF wich we get on some machine playing an FLI with AAPLAY under VB. Some suggestion ? ==> Start Dr. Watson 0.80 – Sun Oct 9 14:46:21 1994 Stop Dr. Watson 0.80 – Sun Oct 9 14:51:10 1994 Start Dr. Watson 0.80…
Thanks for your help Brian I'll check in that direction Olivier
AAPLAY GPF
Message #157556
We have an application written in VB wich play an FLC with aaplay on his presentation form. That application run perfectly (the fli also) on hundred of installation. For now the only problem that we can't solve is that we got a GPF from AAPLAY on 4 different installation The…
Thank you Andrew You give me a lot of information.. I've try to use both DTA / VFD to compress a set of 24 bit TGA and / or 8 bit GIF (coming from a silicon Indigo) to FLI and / or AVI both gave me anyway a very poor…
gpf in aaplay.dll
Message #156940
We have an application in VB runing an FLI with aaplay. It works fine on many machine but some user report a gpf a few moment after the staert of the fli Those machine are 386 with 8MB memory on them. The FLI is read from a CD rom There…
Thank you Nik, It is still unclear to me if INDEO needs a specific hardware or if it can run softwarly ? Olivier
Thank you Brian, Yes it should, everybody says the same, bu no one knows ……. nor me Olivier
#pause an fli using aapla
Message #148587
Maybe we are a little stupid, but we don't find how to pause an flc at the end of the run. 1- It seems impossible to do it with the windows player (it neer pause whatever the delay we set). 2- We are now looking to do it from VB…
Thank you Brian 1- Yes the player found 20 unusefull colors in the animation : it save 20 bytes from the 7Mb fli. That fli was buil using dta from david mason the source frame were extracted in gif from a silicon using image achemy. 2- Finaly I found that…
Thank you Jerry Olivier
Thank you Brian, 1- Windows Players ? : wich ? do you mean AAPLAY player 2- I understand the difference between RAM & disk but it doesn't explain why the fli is very fast at the beginning (for + / – 2 second then slows down to become very slow…
Simple thing are so hard to find ! We have a +/- 4MB fli buil with dta from GIF files extracted from a silicon station 1 – Is it normat that the total fli size is more than the addion of each GIF ? 2 – Is it normal that…
#unload an FLI in VB
Message #145976
We are still having a problem trying to unload an fli from a VB form without unloading the form Is that possible : we don't want to keep unneeded files open If yes how ? If not why ? Olivier
aaplay / vb unload form
Message #144731
We have to play different FLI in different VB form. Some FLI are same in different form What is the correct way to play / stop those FLI switching from one form to another ? For now it run ok since we don't make an unload of one of those…
Thank you John, I'm quite familiar with palette problem, SGI people too, and this is one of the first thing we thought about. The decision to export in GIF is jus to reduce time & volume transfert. We are still looking to see if some SGI tools doesn't offer the…
Thank you again, but we now just decide that transferin the frame in GIF 256 color will save a lot of space ! So now, wich is the best GIF > FLI compiler ? is the Animator PRO tool sama as the 3DS ? Is it fast ? How long…
Thank you, we plan to get both, but have nothing right now, and the target is : PANIC I believe that the TGA to FLI will compress a lot the original size of the full source of TGA set. Is that right ? Olivier
#Silicon GR TGA to FLC
Message #142543
We will receive an animation created on a Silicon Graphics Station, the peoples working on S.G. doesn't know a lot about PC (and we don't know about SG) they propose us to send a collection of TGA files. Is that the best way in order to reuse those files to…
Thank you Jack, you answer to the question. I really thoght it was an acronym. But now I know what AVI mean : Audio Video Interleaved Olivier
#FLI : What does it mean
Message #137235
I' looking for the exact meaning of F.L.I. or F.L.C. A.V.I …. ? Does anyone knows it ? Of course, I know what it is but not the meaning. Olivier
Thank you Jonas Sorry about the confusion Olivier
#vertex flagbit 70 in DXF
Message #124820
I'm converting DXF geographical map to a more usable inhouse format for us. Those map were build with autocad 12 wich we also have. The map are formed by a set of polylines defining each a county (580 in total) I misunderstand a few thing that I can found in…
dxf analyser
Message #116668
I'm currently making a C program to read a dxf file and make polygons, or entities extraction. It works for some basic needs but I'm still trying to find the good trick to read a dxf file without making spaghetti….. Is there some sample code or tricks to find ??…
Thank you Dick, Yes I had the name "Alchemy" somewhere in my mind but maybe not in my machine memory, I'll look for it Thank a lot Olivier Bruxelles, Belgium
#3DS Price
Message #109834
What is the normal retail price for 3dS today Olivier
Thank you Dick, That's the way we are trying to investigate now, my hopes was to get a tip from CrystalGraphic directly but they seems to be death for 10 days now. Your help is appreciate anyway I think that we get Alchemy as a tool in MMGRASP. I'll keep…
#TOPAS fli with AAPLay
Message #109772
We are trying to play TOPAS FLI with aaplay, some are working, some not, it seems to depend on the fli size, (not so big +/- 1.5M) all those fli are playing properly on GRASP or with the topas playmvy animator. We use the aaplay because it's the most comfortable…
Thank you again Brian, we appreciate your help Olivier
#hide aaplay (C) notice
Message #108850
I've seen somewhere that it is possible to hide the aaplay copyright notice at the load time when using the full version. We have buy the aaplay dvlp kit (SN 103921-V) Our company is GOTO in Brussels. Do we have to get something else to have that option ? Olivier
Thank you Brian, I made a mispelling, in fact it is TOPAS from AT&T, we ave try other FLI coming from TOPAS, some are working, some not, it seems to depend on the fli size, again all those fli are playing properly on GRASP. Any other suggestion ? Olivier
aaplay / topaz player
Message #108636
We have an FLI build with TOPAZ, we can play these FLI without any problem with GRASP under DOS but it is impossible to play it using AAPLAY is there known incompatibility between TOPAZ fli / AAPLAY ? Thanks for any suggestion.
floodfill for metafiles
Message #96768
We are looking for a floodfill function wich accept at least 2 colors value for the border detection, it would be very usefull in case of geographical map where ofently one of the area border is surounded by a state border for example. Our files are metafiles exported from Autocad,…
Thank a lot Nik, We can finaly start to use aaplay
We are desesperatly looking for the aaplay.h header, we have order the aaplay.dll kit but it takes a little time to get it and we want to start using the aaplay.ddl that e get on cis with borland c 3.1 Can you email that file for us ? GOTO BRUXELLES…
AAPLAY.H
Message #85319
We are still evaluating the aaplay but the aaplah.h is missing, is there a place to found it Thank you, Olivier Goossens Bara GOTO Bruxelles Belgium
DISPLAY BMP & PCX IN WIN
Message #84459
We are looking for a simple ddl (cheap) to simply display bmp or pcx files under windows. We want to keep those bmp or pcx as files, not making them as resource in the application !! Thank Olivier
Thank you Jonas Olivier
I get the files bu not VBPLAY.zip wich is very long …. and impossible to found DDLDOC.zip
I'm also interested to play fli/flc directly from a BORLAND C program under windows, do I have to get all the items that you've listed for simon or just some of them. It is not possible for us to use an 800 number because we are in Belgium, but it…