MGH_PLAYER__DEFINE Class
MGH_Player Purpose
A window for displaying & managing picture sequences.
Category
Widgets, Object Graphics. Properties
The following properties (ie keywords to the Init, GetProperty &
SetProperty methods) are supported:
CUMULATIVE (Init, Get, Set)
The number of frames to superpose on each display. Default is
1. If CUMULATIVE is zero or negative then all frames up to the
current one are superposed.
N_FRAMES (Get)
The number of frames currently managed by the animator.
SLAVE (Init, Get, Set)
Set this property to specify that the player will be
controlled externally.
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Modification History
Mark Hadfield 2001-07.
Written.
Mark Hadfield 2004-04:
Several changes to the code that exports animations to
bitmap-oriented animation formats:
- Removed facility to save an animation in PPM_SEQUENCE
form. Image sequences can be created in other ways,
- Added method WriteAnimationToAVIFile to produce AVI movies
using the IDL_AVI DLM. See also the new function MGH_AVI_REGISTERED.
Mark Hadfield 2005-01:
Fixed bug in WriteAnimationToAVIFile: when USE_RANGE property is set and
frames are skipped, empty frames are being left in the AVI file.
Mark Hadfield 2006-05:
- The WriteAnimationToAVIFile method now uses the MGHaviWriteFile class,
which provides an interface to Olgeg Kornilov's AVI DLL.
- The menu item that supports MPEG output has been deleted, as MPEG
output from the IDLgrMPEG object is pretty awful.
Mark Hadfield 2007-10:
- The WriteAnimationToAVIFile method now forces the output buffer size
to be a multiple of 8 (previously 4) to supprt a wider range of codecs.