Re: bitmapid in swf functions?

> They are a bit magical. You might want to have a look at: > http://www.opaque.net/ming/, which provides an easier to use > interface (I'm > currently working with the author to contribute the PHP extension code to the > php distribution, he's keen on the idea (ie, if you compile --with-swf > --enable-ming, you get the mingswf extension, --with-swf or --with-swf > --enable-libswf you get the libswf extension)). That library also works with > windows and is constantly maintained (whereas Paul Haebaerli's libswf is not > maintained anymore...). How far away is this? > > I'm probably missing something obvious here. > > > > You are, something obvious, but not intuitive... > > void swf_definebitmap(int objid, string image_name) > > Is the prototype for swf_definebitmap(), the first argument (objid) is the > object id to use with swf_getbitmapinfo(), etc. > > ie, > > <?php > > // The bitmap id to define the bitmap with, and > // then use with the other bitmap functions > $pic_id = 10; > // Komodo, Rasmus? *LOL*! From phpics.com ;) > $pic_location = "korea/0.50/17.jpg"; > > // ... > swf_definebitmap($pic_id, $pic_location); > // ... > $pic_info = swf_getbitmapinfo($pic_id); > > echo "Size of the bitmap in bytes is: $pic_info[size]\n"; > echo "Width of the bitmap in pixels is: $pic_info[width]\n"; > echo "Height of the bitmap in pixels is: $pic_info[height]\n"; > ?> Ok, so I would have expected something like this to work: header('Content-type: application/x-shockwave-flash'); swf_openfile('php://stdout',400, 250, 30, 1, 1, 1); $pic = swf_nextid(); swf_definebitmap($pic, 'php-big.fi'); swf_pushmatrix(); swf_placeobject($pic, 1); swf_popmatrix(); swf_showframe(); swf_closefile(); But it doesn't seem to. I'll keep reading. The ming stuff does look a lot more intuitive. -Rasmus