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? > As soon as he gets around to it. I sent a nag message :) > > > 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. > The ming stuff is definitely more intuitive... The libswf is a bit more advanced, though, and it does make sense once you understand the swf file format... http://reality.sgi.com/grafica/flash/swftest.c is an example in c (the api's are nearly the same, except php doesn't support the sounds)... If you adapt from that you'll see how its done (the resulting animation is at: http://reality.sgi.com/grafica/flash/test.html)... You can also check out, http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/mattern20010111.php3, for a pretty good tutorial on the flash functions... -Sterling Ps: With just a quick look at your code, you need to define a viewing plane with swf_ortho() or swf_ortho2()...