Working around missing QuickTime support?
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On 01/06/2007 at 12:17, xxxxxxxx wrote:
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Cinema 4D Version: R10
Platform: Windows ;
Language(s) : C++ ;---------
Well, it seems that both Windows 64-bit and Windows Vista users are stuck without proper QuickTime support for image files loaded as thumbnails in my plugin. This pertains to PICT and PNG file formats.So, I'm considering a workaround for this. It would involve an image processing library and then a shoe-horn (conversion) of the library's bitmap into a Cinema 4D BaseBitmap.
The best bet so far is paintlib with libpng (already have zlib as part of the project) as paintlib supports PICT and PNG (through libpng). I have not even started to consider if these will work and work in Vista/64-bit. Can anyone please refer other possible libraries that would be Windows 64-bit/Vista compatible? Anyone else with experience here?
Afaiac, Apple needs to get on the ball here. I've been waiting for Windows 64-bit QuickTime support since, well, Windows 64-bit was released (that's more than a year, people). And with official Windows 64-bit versions of Vista, it sort of screams for Apple to get off their arses!
Why should lowly me be doing Jobs multi-million dollar salary work? Git 'er done!Thank you very much,
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On 07/06/2007 at 09:19, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello?
Nothing very useful yet.
Paintlib requires C++ Exception Handling - something that I'm trying to avoid altogether with C4D plugins and much too big to edit to remove them.
libPNG is C and has issues with C++ (but I am searching for a C++ wrapper - hopefully without exception handling). Even with that, PICT support would be unavailable.
I have found nothing (besides PaintLib) that supports PICT reading. ImageMagick was a possibility, but it is really an application with an API - and requires installation and configuration to boot. I'm not doing ImageMagick tech support ontop of that for my plugins!
All that I want is plain C/C++ code to read PNG and PICT into a bitmap that can be somehow copy-converted into Cinema 4D BaseBitmap memory.
Help!
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On 08/06/2007 at 00:51, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Sorry, absolutely no clue. This is definetly not my metier. My very guess would have been Paintlib too, but I don´t have any experience with it.
No help, but a sign of life at least!
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On 10/06/2007 at 21:35, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Unfortunately, Paintlib is a mess with missing source/header files and other problems.
For PNG support, libpng is it. Wow! It loads PNGs (even with alpha channels) 5+ times faster than the QuickTime support used by Cinema 4D. I am converting all of my version support to use it instead.
If anyone needs such support for 64-bit Windows (or generally in Cinema 4D), I'd be happy to forward my source.
Thanks,
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On 12/06/2007 at 07:34, xxxxxxxx wrote:
thanks for the info. Glad you found something.
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On 12/06/2007 at 11:07, xxxxxxxx wrote:
One thing to note is that libpng doesn't currently come with VS2005, CodeWarrior, or Xcode projects. There is a VS2003 project, but I found it clumsy in conversion and built my own from the zlib static lib project used by the plugin.
Even then, I had to fiddle with this project's build settings to remove 'unresolved external symbol' errors related to libpng during link with my plugin - about three hours of frustration before it started working.
Still dealing with a similar situation in Xcode - unresolved external links which seem to be functions that aren't being included by any of the billion #defines. This will require some detective work.
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On 28/11/2007 at 02:20, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Quote: _If anyone needs such support for 64-bit Windows (or generally in Cinema 4D), I'd be happy to forward my source.
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Hey Robert,
this is exactly what i was looking for, since all 64-bit/vista users cant run my plugin anymore, it would be great if you could share that piece of code.
thanks in advance!
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On 28/11/2007 at 13:03, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Are you looking to use libpng for PNG image file support in these Windows versions?
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On 28/11/2007 at 15:20, xxxxxxxx wrote:
yes, or eventually anything else that works
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On 28/11/2007 at 16:56, xxxxxxxx wrote:
You can download a zip containing the following from the link below:
- 64-bit Windows static libs built with VS2005
- Headers for zlib and libpng (libpng requires zlib for compression/decompression)
- Readme.txt to exemplify use of the PngLoad classOf course, you can download the latest zlib and libpng if you need to build the static libs yourself. It is a bit tricky to set up the VS2005 project (as none accompanies these libs).
http://www.kuroyumes-developmentzone.com/_private_/libpng&src.zip;
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On 29/11/2007 at 00:50, xxxxxxxx wrote:
thank you. but i cant download that file. also cant open your site.
can you please mail me the file?
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On 29/11/2007 at 08:16, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Can you try the link again and let me know if it works? I just upgraded NAV and, brilliant, it didn't retain any of my previous settings. I can access everything, but can't test offsite. Working on getting the entire server back online. Hopefully the web server is accessible now.
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On 29/11/2007 at 10:35, xxxxxxxx wrote:
its working now, thank you very much!!!