[Squeakland] generate a movie?

[Markus Gaelli]

Another of this annoying "It would be nice to have but I don't have  
time for it right now..."-posts:

The current event recorder (found in Objects Presentations) is pixel/ 
graphic oriented
and quite broken, eg. it barks on color-picking or parameter-changing.

A nice feature of an upcoming squeak(land)/tweak version could be the  
possibility
to log all user actions as high-level-commands like "open supplies  
flap" "drag-n-drop playfield A into world"
"drag-n-drop playfield B into playfield A" "Open Viewer on B" "Create  
Color Changing Command of B" etc...
you get the idea.

To record the canonical car-demo, one still would need to log pixel- 
based paint-strokes of fat black tires of course...

An advantage of such a more content and less pixel-oriented approach  
could be more compatibility
between different images (be it squeakland or squeak-dev) and that  
one could render
the log into some silent movie or latex/rtf format.

If one could annotate each command with a (spoken) comment, one  
should be able to render
the whole story into a non silent movie too.

Cheers,

Markus




On Feb 13, 2006, at 4:53 PM, Arvind Grover wrote:

> I had asked a similar question before, and Kim ran it by the Squeak  
> development group. No easy answers. I have been using the free  
> software Wink (http://www.debugmode.com/wink/) to capture  
> animations to Flash movies. It is based on screen-shot captures,  
> but allows for very nice annotations during movies.
>
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: squeakland-bounces at squeakland.org on behalf of Randy Heiland
> 	Sent: Sat 2/11/2006 4:10 PM
> 	To: squeakland at squeakland.org
> 	Cc:
> 	Subject: [Squeakland] generate a movie?
> 	
> 	
>
> 	The presentation I gave yesterday to about 25 Indiana school  
> teachers on
> 	Squeak went reasonably well.  More to come.  But for starters, one  
> teacher
> 	who had actually played with Squeak a bit asked if it was possible to
> 	capture movies within Squeak.  I told her no, I didn't think so,  
> but wanted
> 	to verify this.  I know the Object Cataglog/Multimedia has the  
> mpegplayer.
> 	I realize that doing movie capture, in general, can be a bit  
> tricky - with
> 	multiple formats, quality and frame rate params, etc., not to  
> mention a
> 	possibly large file as output.  Still, it would be nice to, say,  
> capture
> 	frames in playfield (start/stop) in some "standard" movie format.
> 	
> 	--Randy
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