Pre-Render Script area?
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Heeeeeeeeeeelp !!!!!
Hi Ben, I'm trying to use just a command in the Prerender script area of
IM 9.51. here's what I'm doing…….
Load a Backdrop image into the secondary buffer and have the Seq loader
load a bunch of images to composite onto the same background image thats
in the Secondary Buffer. So in the Pre-Render script area of the Seq
loader I placed the command
'Minmerge'
and when I run it , it DOES in fact do the merge as I wanted but then it
just seems to stop doing ANYTHING and sits there, is there some type of
additional command I must add into the Prerender script area? Or am I
going to be forced to write a Arexx Script to do this?
If I need a Arexx script please post a simple one I can copy.
In the above do I need to first access the Arexx port?????
Thanx for the help.
Peter,
I don't have the specific answer to your question re: running 'Minmerge"
but
I've sometimes found a requester hiding behind other screens or windows
asking for an action. Somehow it didn't seem to pop to the front…
Maybe you've a hidden requester? Try L-Amiga-N (or -M)?
Jan
I think you misunderstand what I'm trying to do Jan. Thanx for the
info tho. The requester I'm assuming yer refferring to is for doing
single images, I am trying to do Hands off Minmerge's of a SERIES of
images via the Script feature of the Sequence Loader.
Peter,
Yup, I misunderstood, and Ben caught it anway, as usual!
Later,
Jan
Thanx for the help anyway Jan. Speak up more often. We can always use more
Chatter here.
Yep – at the end of the script, you need the command 'finsh';
That's documented in the addendum, btw.
–Ben
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sooooooo if I put the following in the area for the pre render script it
will work then eh?………….
'minmerge'||'finish'
Will this work or do I HAVE to do a whole Arexx script?
Time to print out that Bloody Humongous Addendum I guess.
The script gadget needs the name of a script, IE ram:myscript.rexx
The script itself in the ram disk should contain:
/* comment – REQUIRED in ALL ARexx scripts on no-go! */
'entire'; /* selects region to affect */
'minmerge' /* performs op on specified region */;
'finish'; /* tells sequencer to go to next frame */
–Ben
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Ben, If I put the Qoutes in the script it just lays there like a lump on a
log. I left the qoutes off as follows
/* testing */
entire;
minmerge;
finish;
and it worked fine.
Actually I should say this the script WITH the qoutes worked to a certain
extent it DID do the minmerge but never exited back to load the next image
and just sat there after the mergeing.
Ben-
I'm having a miserable time using the Sequencer to compile anims. I
usually crash and burn after the fifth or eighth frame is loaded. I am
running SnoopDos in conjunction and the last event is LOAD FOOpic008. I'm
not running out of memory.
Is there any known bug in 9.51 that might be getting me?
–Paul < Motorola Inside >
No… what format are the input images in? Perhaps it's a compatibility
problem? Where did the frames come from?
At the worst, perhaps you could send the first 8 frames to us on diskette,
that would help a lot.
–Ben
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