Export JPEGs (Director 8)

 

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• the exporting movie is not included in the projector file. • the exporting movie is not shocked (.dcr) nor protected (.dxr). At least it must have the extension .dir. • in Director 8, you pass member names or numbers (instead of member references) into the convertToJpeg routine • Additionally, there are sporadic crashes when closing a projector after having exported JPEGs. Have a look at the export behavior in the example movie, where I incorporated an ugly hack that does the job. No more crashes... For both authoring and projector make sure that: • the member to be exported is in Castlib 1. There is no way to export from other castlibs. The script below eliminates the term mymember.castlibnum and just uses 1 instead. • when exporting more than one member, you may choose not to instantiate the Xtra for every export. The script below has the necessary changes.

-- Movie script -- Call: -- converttojpeg("hans", "aDisk:aFolder:aFile.jpg", 75) -- converttojpeg("hans", "c:aFolderaFile.jpg", 75) on convertToJPEG mymember, myfilepath, myquality   myinst = new(xtra "JavaConvert")   the itemdelimiter = "."   myinst.ExportMedia(item 1 of the movie, mymember,   myfilepath, 1, myquality, mymember.castlibnum)   myinst = 0 end