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Re: [Ming-dev] setting up a function call in movieclip

[strk <st...@ke...>]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 04:23:43PM -0500, Jay Koutavas wrote:
> Also.. how can I reference my movieclip I created using Ming from 
> inside an action script? i.e. how do I get to its instance. So, from 
> a action on the movie itself I can do: <mc>.stop(); Where do I get 
> <mc>?

You can set a name to an instance you place:

SWFDisplayItem it = SWFMovie_add(myMovie, myMc);
SWFDisplayItem_setName(it, "myMcName");

Then you can refer to it using 'myMcName'

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Re: [Ming-dev] setting up a function call in movieclip

[strk <st...@ke...>]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 04:20:29PM -0500, Jay Koutavas wrote:
> How does one add an action to a specific frame in the movieclip? I 
> thought when you do a movieclip->addAction() you are doing it for the 
> whole clip. Is it like this?:
> 	SWFMovieClip* mc = new SWFMovieClip();
> 	mc->addAction( new SWFAction("trace('action on frame 1');"));
> 	mc->nextFrame();
> 	mc->addAction( new SWFAction("trace('action on frame 2');"));

Yes :)

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Re: [Ming-dev] setting up a function call in movieclip

[Jay K. <ja...@he...>]

Also.. how can I reference my movieclip I created using Ming from 
inside an action script? i.e. how do I get to its instance. So, from 
a action on the movie itself I can do: <mc>.stop(); Where do I get 
<mc>?

At 5:09 PM +0100 12/29/08, strk wrote:

>On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 06:10:18PM -0500, Jay Koutavas wrote:
>>  Thanks, this helped.
>>
>>  Now my next problem. :)
>>
>>  I want to stop a movieclip in my movie. I do this:
>>
>>     movieClip->addInitAction( new SWFAction( "stop();" ));
>>
>>  But it plays one frame. If I try to stop it in onEnterFrame, like so:
>
>Make the animation start on the second frame,  have only "stop" in the
>first one.  The frame containing the "stop" action will be executed of course.
>
>--strk;


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Re: [Ming-dev] setting up a function call in movieclip

[Jay K. <ja...@he...>]

How does one add an action to a specific frame in the movieclip? I 
thought when you do a movieclip->addAction() you are doing it for the 
whole clip. Is it like this?:
	SWFMovieClip* mc = new SWFMovieClip();
	mc->addAction( new SWFAction("trace('action on frame 1');"));
	mc->nextFrame();
	mc->addAction( new SWFAction("trace('action on frame 2');"));


/Jay

At 5:09 PM +0100 12/29/08, strk wrote:

>On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 06:10:18PM -0500, Jay Koutavas wrote:
>>  Thanks, this helped.
>>
>>  Now my next problem. :)
>>
>>  I want to stop a movieclip in my movie. I do this:
>>
>>     movieClip->addInitAction( new SWFAction( "stop();" ));
>>
>>  But it plays one frame. If I try to stop it in onEnterFrame, like so:
>
>Make the animation start on the second frame,  have only "stop" in the
>first one.  The frame containing the "stop" action will be executed of course.
>
>--strk;


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Re: [Ming-dev] setting up a function call in movieclip

[strk <st...@ke...>]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 06:10:18PM -0500, Jay Koutavas wrote:
> Thanks, this helped.
> 
> Now my next problem. :)
> 
> I want to stop a movieclip in my movie. I do this:
> 
>    movieClip->addInitAction( new SWFAction( "stop();" ));
> 
> But it plays one frame. If I try to stop it in onEnterFrame, like so:

Make the animation start on the second frame,  have only "stop" in the
first one.  The frame containing the "stop" action will be executed of course.

--strk;

Re: [Ming-dev] setting up a function call in movieclip

[Jay K. <ja...@he...>]

Thanks, this helped.

Now my next problem. :)

I want to stop a movieclip in my movie. I do this:

   movieClip->addInitAction( new SWFAction( "stop();" ));

But it plays one frame. If I try to stop it in onEnterFrame, like so:

	movieClip->add( new SWFAction(
		"onEnterFrame=function() {stop();};"
	) );

it still plays one frame. What am I missing? Do I need to do the stop 
in the movie's init action? If so, what's the ActionScript reference 
to the movieclip going to be? <myMovieClip>.stop().

Thanks.

/Jay

At 10:13 AM +0100 12/19/08, strk wrote:

>On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:14:57AM -0500, Jay Koutavas wrote:
>
>>  Here's the ming lib C/C++ code:
>>
>>  SWFMovieClip* movieClip = SWFMovieClip();
>>  ....
>>  movieClip->add( new SWFAction(
>>	"myFunc = function() {"
>>		"trace(\"myFunc was called\");"
>>	"}"));
>>  movieClip->addInitAction(new SWFAction("myFunc();"));
>
>Init actions are  executed *before* other actions,
>so your call to myFunc happens *before* 'myFunc' is
>defined. Add the definition with addInitAction and you
>should be fine.
>
>--strk;


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Re: [Ming-dev] small patch for python extension

[Patrice D. <per...@fr...>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 06:55:22PM +0100, strk wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:57:03AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> 
> Pat, the current ming head seems to succeed in building python
> out of the source tree already. What am I missing ?
> Different python or automake versions ?

Here is th eprecise error. Even if ming_wrap.c is created, the one
from the source dir is used, and the ming_wrap.o file is created in the 
sourcedir:

gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -g -O2 -Wall -DSWF_LITTLE_ENDIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -I/usr/local/include -I/home/dumas/tmp/ming/py_ext/../src -I/usr/include/python2.5 -c ../../../src/ming/py_ext/ming_wrap.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.5/../../../src/ming/py_ext/ming_wrap.o
Assembler messages:
Fatal error: can't create build/temp.linux-i686-2.5/../../../src/ming/py_ext/ming_wrap.o: No such file or directory

That's why I proposed to always have ming_wrap.c in the build 
directory and use that file in setup.py.in.

It even seems to me that what I propose doesn't break in case of parallel 
make, since ming_wrap.c being BUILT_SOURCES is a dependency of all, and
all-am is run by a call of MAKE and therefore cannot be done in parallel
with ming_wrap.c.


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Pat

Re: [Ming-dev] small patch for python extension

[Patrice D. <per...@fr...>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 06:55:22PM +0100, strk wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:57:03AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> 
> > Things are worse, in fact. distutil seems to be able to do the object
> > file only in the source file directory. I found a workaround that looks
> > fine. Patch attached.
> 
> Pat, the current ming head seems to succeed in building python
> out of the source tree already. What am I missing ?
> Different python or automake versions ?

Maybe it is linked with newer distutils. If I remember well, the
case with ming_wrap.c present in the source dir failed since the .o 
was also created in the source dir.

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Pat

Re: [Ming-dev] small patch for python extension

[strk <st...@ke...>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:57:03AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:

> Things are worse, in fact. distutil seems to be able to do the object
> file only in the source file directory. I found a workaround that looks
> fine. Patch attached.

Pat, the current ming head seems to succeed in building python
out of the source tree already. What am I missing ?
Different python or automake versions ?

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Re: [Ming-dev] issue with php and python test out of build with ../../Media

[Bradley G. <br...@pi...>]

Maybe this?

php -r 'var_dump($argv);' var1 var2
array(3) {
   [0]=>
   string(1) "-"
   [1]=>
   string(4) "var1"
   [2]=>
   string(4) "var2"
}


On Dec 19, 2008, at 4:04 AM, Patrice Dumas wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 01:03:08PM +0100, strk wrote:
>>
>> Any idea how to have php process command line args ?
>
> I also read php, but don't write that language either...
>
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Re: [Ming-dev] issue with php and python test out of build with ../../Media

[Bradley G. <br...@pi...>]

On Dec 19, 2008, at 4:03 AM, strk wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:59:51AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:23:31AM +0100, strk wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Out of tree test of
>>>> test/Movie/setSoundStream/test02.php
>>
>> The failure remains for php tests. At least
>> test/Movie/setSoundStream/test01.php
>>                          test02.php
>>                          test03.php
>
> Any idea how to have php process command line args ?
>
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Re: [Ming-dev] issue with php and python test out of build with ../../Media

[strk <st...@ke...>]

Thanks bradley, committed

--strk;

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:52:04AM -0800, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> Like this?
> 
> <?php
> // php_cmd.php
> 
> echo "\n\n" ;
> echo var_dump ( $argv ) ;
> echo "\n\n" ;
> 
> foreach ( $argv as $key => $value ) {
> 
>   echo $key . " => " . $value ;
>   echo "\n\n" ;
> }
> 
> ?>
> 
> brad$ php php_cmd.php arg2 101
> 
> array(3) {
>   [0]=>
>   string(11) "php_cmd.php"
>   [1]=>
>   string(4) "arg2"
>   [2]=>
>   string(3) "101"
> }
> 
> 
> 0 => php_cmd.php
> 
> 1 => arg2
> 
> 2 => 101
> 
> 
> 
> On Dec 19, 2008, at 4:03 AM, strk wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:59:51AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> >>On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:23:31AM +0100, strk wrote:
> >>>>Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>>Out of tree test of
> >>>>test/Movie/setSoundStream/test02.php
> >>
> >>The failure remains for php tests. At least
> >>test/Movie/setSoundStream/test01.php
> >>                         test02.php
> >>                         test03.php
> >
> >Any idea how to have php process command line args ?
> >
> >--strk;
> >
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Re: [Ming-dev] issue with php and python test out of build with ../../Media

[Patrice D. <per...@fr...>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 01:03:08PM +0100, strk wrote:
> 
> Any idea how to have php process command line args ?

I also read php, but don't write that language either...

--
Pat

Re: [Ming-dev] issue with php and python test out of build with ../../Media

[strk <st...@ke...>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:59:51AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:23:31AM +0100, strk wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Out of tree test of 
> > > test/Movie/setSoundStream/test02.php
> 
> The failure remains for php tests. At least
> test/Movie/setSoundStream/test01.php
>                           test02.php
>                           test03.php

Any idea how to have php process command line args ?

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Re: [Ming-dev] issue with php and python test out of build with ../../Media

[Patrice D. <per...@fr...>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:23:31AM +0100, strk wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Out of tree test of 
> > test/Movie/setSoundStream/test02.php

The failure remains for php tests. At least
test/Movie/setSoundStream/test01.php
                          test02.php
                          test03.php

--
Pat

Re: [Ming-dev] small patch for python extension

[Patrice D. <per...@fr...>]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 02:01:33AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Using -I$(srcdir)/.. instead of -I.. is not enough for python to have
> out of source build work rightly. Indeed python will still use the 
> ming_wrap.c from the srcdir, even if there is a new ming_wrap.c in the 
> build dir. To fix that I think that the best would be to modify 
> setup.py.in such that if there is a ming_wrap.c in the build directory 
> it uses it, otherwise it uses the one in the source directory. I am not
> good enough in python to do that, though...

Things are worse, in fact. distutil seems to be able to do the object
file only in the source file directory. I found a workaround that looks
fine. Patch attached.

--
Pat

Re: [Ming-dev] issue with php and python test out of build with ../../Media

[strk <st...@ke...>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:28:08AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:23:31AM +0100, strk wrote:
> > > 
> > > One way to fix that would be to use the srcdir env variable, set it 
> > > to . if not defined, and use $srcdir/../../Media/video02.flv
> > 
> > Those tests get built with "srcdir" passed as first arg.
> > I'm not a python developer... if you know how to scan arguments it
> > should be easy to fix.
> 
> I read python, but I don't write it...

I committed a fix for the argv[1].

	import sys;
	srcdir = sys.argv[1];

There's another failure in the font test now.

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Re: [Ming-dev] small patch for python extension

[strk <st...@ke...>]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 02:01:33AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Please find attached a patch with small fixes for py_ext and tcl_ext.
> 
> Using -I$(srcdir)/.. instead of -I.. is not enough for python to have
> out of source build work rightly. Indeed python will still use the 
> ming_wrap.c from the srcdir, even if there is a new ming_wrap.c in the 
> build dir. To fix that I think that the best would be to modify 
> setup.py.in such that if there is a ming_wrap.c in the build directory 
> it uses it, otherwise it uses the one in the source directory. I am not
> good enough in python to do that, though...

Committed, thanks !

--strk;

Re: [Ming-dev] issue with php and python test out of build with ../../Media

[Patrice D. <per...@fr...>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:23:31AM +0100, strk wrote:
> > 
> > One way to fix that would be to use the srcdir env variable, set it 
> > to . if not defined, and use $srcdir/../../Media/video02.flv
> 
> Those tests get built with "srcdir" passed as first arg.
> I'm not a python developer... if you know how to scan arguments it
> should be easy to fix.

I read python, but I don't write it...

--
Pat

Re: [Ming-dev] issue with php and python test out of build with ../../Media

[strk <st...@ke...>]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:42:09AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Out of tree test of 
> test/Movie/setSoundStream/test02.php
> fails because it contains:
> 
>  $sound = new SWFSoundStream("../../Media/video02.flv");
> 
> One way to fix that would be to use the srcdir env variable, set it 
> to . if not defined, and use $srcdir/../../Media/video02.flv

Those tests get built with "srcdir" passed as first arg.
I'm not a python developer... if you know how to scan arguments it
should be easy to fix.

--strk;

Re: [Ming-dev] setting up a function call in movieclip

[strk <st...@ke...>]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:14:57AM -0500, Jay Koutavas wrote:

> Here's the ming lib C/C++ code:
> 
> SWFMovieClip* movieClip = SWFMovieClip();
> ....
> movieClip->add( new SWFAction(
> 	"myFunc = function() {"
> 		"trace(\"myFunc was called\");"
> 	"}"));
> movieClip->addInitAction(new SWFAction("myFunc();"));

Init actions are  executed *before* other actions,
so your call to myFunc happens *before* 'myFunc' is 
defined. Add the definition with addInitAction and you
should be fine.

--strk;

Re: [Ming-dev] setting up a function call in movieclip

[Axel H. <ax...@3d...>]

Jay Koutavas schrieb:
> I use gnash. It tells me it's not finding the myFunc() function. The 
> init action is called before the function gets defined. Even if I 
> call addAction before addInitAction. gnash also reports failure if I 
> try to define myFunc() using an addInitAction.
>
> Every example in the ming tests, and on google searches shows just 
> straight actionscript being used to call existing Flash functions. Do 
> you have an example anywhere of how to create a function, and then 
> call it from an action?
>
> /Jay
>
> At 5:40 PM +0100 12/15/08, strk wrote:
>
>   
>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:37:46AM -0500, Jay Koutavas wrote:
>>     
>>>  Thanks, got past that now. Next question:
>>>
>>>  Why doesn't it work?
>>>
>>>  -- there's no trace output of "myFunc was called" in the output pane
>>>  on CS4 Flash, though I can get output if I call trace() directly in
>>>  my init function.
>>>       
>> Try using Gnash, it'll tell you more if you enable ActionScript
>> errors verbosity.
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash
>>
>> --strk;
>>     
>
>
>   
Hi,
here is how I debug my ming actionscript:
<?php

ming_useswfversion(8);

$w = 640;
$h = 480;

$movie = new SWFMovie();
$movie->setDimension($w, $h);
$movie->setBackground(0xcc, 0xcc, 0xee);

$layer = new SWFSprite();
$s = new SWFShape();

$font = new SWFFont("../mingres/Arial.fdb");

$t = new SWFTextField();
$t->setFont($font);
$t->addUTF8String("naughty@home");
$t->setColor(80, 0,0);
$t->setHeight(40);
$t->setName('label');
 
$handle = $movie->add($t);
$handle->setName('textfield');
$handle->moveTo(150, 120);

$action = <<<EAC

dumpObject(textfield);
debug(label);
function debug(m){
    _root.getURL('javascript:debug(\"'+m+'\")');
}

function dumpObject(o){
    debug('dumpObject:' + o);
    if(typeof(o)=='movieclip'){
        debug(o._name+":");
        pl = props.length;
        for(p=0;p<pl;p++){
            debug(o._name+'.'+props[p]+' = '+o[props[p]]);
        }
    }
    for(e in o){
        debug(typeof(o[e])+"->"+e+':'+o[e]);
    }
}

EAC;

$movie->add( new SWFAction($action) );

$movie->nextFrame();

$movie->add( new SWFAction("debug('Stop Movie now!');stop();" ));

$movie->nextFrame();

header('Content-type: application/x-shockwave-flash');
$movie->output(0);

?>
you can see how it works with firefox opened with -console on
http://teamtrier.de/mingdevel/netScreen.php?movie=text.php

Axel

Re: [Ming-dev] setting up a function call in movieclip

[Jay K. <ja...@he...>]

I use gnash. It tells me it's not finding the myFunc() function. The 
init action is called before the function gets defined. Even if I 
call addAction before addInitAction. gnash also reports failure if I 
try to define myFunc() using an addInitAction.

Every example in the ming tests, and on google searches shows just 
straight actionscript being used to call existing Flash functions. Do 
you have an example anywhere of how to create a function, and then 
call it from an action?

/Jay

At 5:40 PM +0100 12/15/08, strk wrote:

>On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:37:46AM -0500, Jay Koutavas wrote:
>>  Thanks, got past that now. Next question:
>>
>>  Why doesn't it work?
>>
>>  -- there's no trace output of "myFunc was called" in the output pane
>>  on CS4 Flash, though I can get output if I call trace() directly in
>>  my init function.
>
>Try using Gnash, it'll tell you more if you enable ActionScript
>errors verbosity.
>http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash
>
>--strk;


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Re: [Ming-dev] setting up a function call in movieclip

[strk <st...@ke...>]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:37:46AM -0500, Jay Koutavas wrote:
> Thanks, got past that now. Next question:
> 
> Why doesn't it work?
> 
> -- there's no trace output of "myFunc was called" in the output pane 
> on CS4 Flash, though I can get output if I call trace() directly in 
> my init function.

Try using Gnash, it'll tell you more if you enable ActionScript
errors verbosity.
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash

--strk;

Re: [Ming-dev] setting up a function call in movieclip

[Jay K. <ja...@he...>]

Thanks, got past that now. Next question:

Why doesn't it work?

-- there's no trace output of "myFunc was called" in the output pane 
on CS4 Flash, though I can get output if I call trace() directly in 
my init function.

/Jay

At 5:24 PM +0100 12/15/08, strk wrote:

>On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:14:57AM -0500, Jay Koutavas wrote:
>
>>  movieClip->add( new SWFAction(
>>	"myFunc = function() {"
>>		"trace(\"myFunc was called\");"
>>	"}"));
>
>Add a semicolon at the end of function body:
>
>	myFunc = function() {
>		trace("myFunc was called");
>	}; // <-- the semicolon here is required
>
>--strk;


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