Webcam with Squeak web browser plugin

diegogomezdeck at consultar.com diegogomezdeck at consultar.com
Wed Sep 17 15:23:19 UTC 2003


Mariano, Andreas,

The webcam support is FFI (and windows only), the filters are a "proper
plugin".

Cheers,

Diego

> Hi,
>
> This may be the cause of the problem although I thought that this was a
> "proper plugin" instead of using the FFI calls. The FFI is not
> available in the plugin to prevent random Squeaklets to wipe out your
> machine.
>
> If the web-cam stuff is a proper plugin, my best guess is that it's
> simply been put into the "wrong" location.
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On
>> Behalf Of David Faught
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 2:32 PM
>> To: Squeak Mailing List
>> Subject: Webcam with Squeak web browser plugin
>>
>>
>> Hi Mariano,
>>
>> Mariano J. Badoglio wrote:
>> >Hello,
>> >I have problems to be able to see taken images of a webcam, running
>> >squeak inside a web browser. When I run squeak outside of the web
>> >browser walks well.
>> >I am using the squeak 3.5 in windows 98. The communication dll is
>> >sqWebCam.dll. (Downloaded from package "Video and Image Processing"
>> >of Diego Gomez Deck).
>> >If somebody can help me with this I will be very grateful.
>>
>> I think it's possible that the Squeakland plugin version of Squeak
>> follows something like the "sandbox" security model that Java
>> uses. See
>> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/sip/faq/java-vs-activex.html for some
>> additional info.  This means that it cannot load any dll or access any
>> device that the browser doesn't control.
>>
>> I was wondering why in the world the Squeakland version would not
>> include the Speech classes, but this is probably the reason
>> for that as
>> well.





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