Animated background

[MrTAToad]

Originally this was a WMV movie - it was not easy trying to convert it to a set of PNG files, but I eventually did it   The file is 101Mb and can be downloaded here : www.un-map.com/TestProgram.exe

Unfortunately I cant remember where I got it from - there is a site that allows you to download royalty-free background WMV's - which is where I got this from.

I'm using Setup&Go, so on Windows 7 you'll need to use Administator mode and manually delete the Test Program directory yourself, after you have finished with it.

One of two things will happen when you run the little program - your computer will grind to a halt loading in 208 720 x 576 files or it will be able to handle it deftly   Mine loads and displays it okay, but there is lots of disk activity during the display.

One side effect seems to be caused by the ESET AV program - it seems to have caused a PRE_LEAK_WOW64 Event Message...

I was originally going to use this for Spots, but quickly decided against it for obvious reasons



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[D2O]

Hmmm,

no Startmenü
no Desktopicon
no Running.

Movi ~30mb:
http://www.deuteriumoxid.com/glbasic/Recorder-02-13_101741.flv

[MrTAToad]

There is no desktop or startmenu icon.  Did you start the program manually ?  If so, did you get a black screen ?

[Ian Price]

I can't even get it to install 1%. The moment I press install it brings up an error message in German(?) - see attachment.


Forgot to mention I'm using Windows 7 and I have Admin priviliges/mode.

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[D2O]

Sorry for my bad english.

Did you start the program manually ?

Yes

If so, did you get a black screen ?

Yes, the screen are black and in Windowscreen, no fullscreen.

If this only Win7 ?
My OS is XP.

How i can start this program otherwise if not Manuel?

[MrTAToad]

Yes, the screen are black and in Windowscreen, no fullscreen.

If nothing is displayed after a short while, then it sounds like your system cant handle it...

I can't even get it to install 1%

It does sound like Setup&Go isn't totally compatible with Windows 7

That can be easily dealt with

Its actually a rather good stress test - I did get a run-time error when running it earlier, although it was only once...    It was most likely due to the virtual disk space needing to be expanded

Try this one : http://www.un-map.com/Anim.app.rar

It now has a count showing which image has been loaded

Code: (glbasic) [Select]

LOCAL loop%,x%,y%

LIMITFPS -1

SETSHOEBOX "Media.sbx",""
FOR loop%=0 TO 208
PRINT "Loading : "+loop%,0,0,TRUE
LOADSPRITE RIGHT$("0000"+loop%,4)+".png",loop%
GETSPRITESIZE loop%,x%,y%
IF x%=0 OR y%=0
PRINT "Unable to load sprite "+loop%,0,100
ENDIF
SHOWSCREEN
NEXT
SETSHOEBOX "",""

loop%=0
WHILE TRUE
DRAWSPRITE loop%,0,0
SHOWSCREEN
SLEEP 1
INC loop%
IF loop%>208 THEN loop%=0
WEND

[D2O]

Hi, works fine in Windowsmode

But,
if animation 360° done,
then the animation is still standing for one sec.

[MrTAToad]

Thats the computer most likely expanding your swap file.

[Ian Price]

After a nice smooth start (about 30secs) the background starts to run at about a million miles an hour. Nice while it was watchable though.

[MrTAToad]

Interesting - probably lots of hard drive activity causing it

[BumbleBee]

While loading i went for a walk.        It runs fast, faster, dead slow. Less than 10 FPS but i looks very nice

Cheers 

[MrTAToad]

Its why it cant really be used...

[Moebius]

Looks very nice.  It was <sarcasm strength="mild">definitely</sarcasm> worth waiting an hour for it to download, 5 minutes for it to load, and another 5 for it to run through a few times!
Somehow I can see why you wouldn't use it...

[phaelax]

Only took about a minute for it to load for me, but every couple of seconds the animation would freeze or slow down immensely then kick back up to a smooth frame rate.

[MrTAToad]

Its not surprising - 208 * 720 x 756 - its around a 1GB of animation there