#MCI Memory Load
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Never mind the silly thread of Firesign Theatreism that I inadvertently
started……..What I really want to know is: Is is possible to load an
animation into memory (as in the Autodesk Windows Player) using only MCI
strings? I see no such mention in the spec, but would love to be able to
load a large (3 or 4 MB) .flc into memory to make for smoothest playback.
RSVP
Thank you very much in advance.
Jon Swift
HSC Software
Unfortunately, the MCI spec itself doesn't even allow for a preload of the
animation file. There is such capability in our MCI driver either.
Perhaps we'll come out with an "enhanced" MCI driver one day. We get a lot
of requests for additional functionality with it.
Thanks for your reply. I was anticipating such a response. Please let me
know when/if you have and upgraded MCI drivers.
Thanks
Jon Swift
HSC Software
Jon – I don't deal with Windows much (if I can avoid it) but couldn't you
get something like the response you want by setting up a RAMDRIVE for the
animation to be read from? Or won't Windows allow it? (Or have you an
insufficiency of RAM?) FWIW
David Taffet