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I just made a small Apple style reflection example for a friend and maybe it helps one of you by creating
nice reflections.

Ad

Nice effect

Hi

I've just run into a hitch. SetImage after browsing for an image works fine from within Opus, but doesn't work once published; it just remains blank. After messing around with my code for an hour, I tried Ad's reflection pub and found the same thing. I've rebooted/reinstalled with the latest version (7.05 on the website but 7.06 in the ap) to no avail. I'm in a fix here, so need to get this sorted asap. Running Windows 7.

Does anyone else have the same problem? Wondering if it is a bug or something on my PC. If you have time, could you please test the reflection effect after publication with an external image.

Many thanks
Dan

Actually - I've just had a further explore and the problem seems only to be with gif images. Perhaps they are not supported, although they work in the editor.

Has anyone else had problems with this? I've just tried again with Win 7 and XP. SetImage (including this reflection exe) doesn't work with gifs. Has the bug been addressed in latest version? DW?
Thanks
Dan

Doesn't seem to want to play ball in Opus 8 either.

However, if it's a must, you can treat the images as video and load them into the video object for display.

Mack

Thanks Mack. I'm a bit groggy this morning, but I can't see an equivalent of SetImage for video. How would you load a browsed-for video into a video object? You can set the image in the video object, but this still results in problem A.
Cheers

No equivalent. The video object accepts a variable IE <myFile>. Use On Top Mode and you may have to start the video (I know it's an image) to have it display. If you want to check it works, download our VCR exemplar from the website.

Mack

Great... that's easy. And I can work in video functionality too.
You're the man Mack. (No, really, you are).

Actually - I was very groggy this morning and not thinking things through properly. Each video object will actually be part of a clone, so I would need to refer to the video file dynamically through an array. You don't seem to be able to replace the variable with an array element anyway, so I didn't even think about the dynamic situation. Need a SetVideo, methinks (or just the gif images to work in SetImage).
Thanks for your thunks anyway.
Cheers
Dan

See this is what happens when you only post half the question

Yes, file paths are absolute or variables - so no OOP or Arrays

At this point, it's probably getting into the realm of a daft work-around, asking DW to fix the problem or using DLLs.

But, I have to ask, why GIFs anyway? Odd choice for an image format.

Mack

User choice - I just allow them to import jpg, png, bmp and gif. You're right though - the average Google image search produces a lot less gifs than it used to, so perhaps not too big a deal. We're talking teachers and kids here, so they generally don't look further than the first page of google for things to steal (sorry - I mean borrow for a legitimate educational learning experience).

Well then if it's a must - I'd either see if it can be be fixed or I'd get a DLL that can convert the GIF to something else.

If it's not urgent, either don't allow GIF in the selector box or educate the user by catching that they picked a GIF and display a pop-up on how to convert it manually or get them to choose something.


Mack

Yep, I've had the gif warning there since first release - I was just hoping to sort it in this update. I'll contact dw and see if there is a dll soln.
Thanks again
Dan

Could you use something like IrfanView in command line mode to change the image format to something you could use?