Ideas and Suggestions on Generating Frames for a Movie

[Ken Ray]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:23:16 +0000, Dave wrote:

> I know how to do most of this. I have an external command module that 
> can generate QuickTime movies and I know how to  create rectangles 
> etc and move them around the frame. However I am not sure how to 
> render everything inside the frame, e.g. what I would like to be able 
> to do is it put the background pixels into a pixel buffer, then the 
> pixels of each object in the frame into a the same pixel buffer 
> (overwriting the background) and then pass this buffer to an external 
> command that would write one frame of the QuickTime movie. After 
> writing a frame, it would then change the colors of the objects, 
> perform any movement or size change and render out the next frame.

Well, there's a property called "imagePixmapID" that is *supposed* to 
provide the handle to pixMap in an image object; perhaps that can be 
used? I personally haven't used it, so I don't know if it works, but 
give it a shot...

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
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