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[mgp-users 00971] Re: Problems embedding apps in presentations

Hello,

After downloading and installing mpeg_play this works perfect.
Thanks! Finally a presentation tool that rocks.

Best
Grunde



On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 16:46, Hans Fangohr wrote:
> On 14 Jun 2002, Grunde [ISO-8859-1] L酶voll wrote:
> 
> Hi Grunde,
> 
> > for my configuration this dosn't work! It seems that most external
> > X-apps starts in the upper left corner without geometry option to the
> > app (which not all apps take). Does anyone know why this is so? Is there
> > something wrong with my configuration since x-apps don't end up on the
> > next line? What could I do?
> 
> I use two ways to display animations (and control the position exactly):
> 
> mpegs in this fashion:
> %system "mpeg_play -quiet -dither color -controls none -position +200+500 -loop thisisthemovie.mpg"
> 
> The "geometry" option is called "position" for mpeg_play, but works the
> same for the placement.
> 
> And other animations using imageMagick:
> 
> %system "display -geometry 400x400+500+360 small_sph_400x400.first.gif"
> %system "animate -geometry 400x400+500+360 small_sph_400x400.raw.miff"
> 
> The first line puts the first frame of the animation, so you see something
> while animate is loading the movie.
> 
> Hope that  is useful.
> 
> Hans
> 
> > > > Since plaympeg don't take any position or geometry option is
> > > > there any way to force it's position from MagickPoint?
> > >
> > > I don't know how to control the position exactly.
> > >
> > > For me the animation always appears at the position of "the next line". So
> > > "%center/left/right" controls the position horizontally and I insert black
> > > lines to control the position vertically.
> > >
> > > I usually have the animation center with text above and below. "%cont" does
> > > not allow me to put 2 animations side by side as I would for 2 images - But I
> > > notice that "%mark/again" can be used to place a second animation or text next
> > > to the first:
> > >
> > > %mark, left
> > > %xsystem "plaympeg -l lssanim_zoom.mpg"
> > > %again, right
> > > %xsystem "plaympeg -l lssanim_zoom.mpg"
> > >
> > > Clem
> > >
> > > --
> > > **********************************************************************
> > > Clem Pryke - Senior Research Associate
> > > University of Chicago,
> > > Room 226, LASR, 933 East 56th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
> > > Tel: 773 702-7853  Fax: 773 834-1891  email: pryke@focus.uchicago.edu
> > > **********************************************************************
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> 
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> Hans Fangohr, fangohr@soton.ac.uk
> 
> High Performance Computing Group,
> Dept. Electronics and Computer Science
> Building 59, Level 3, Room 3237,
> University of Southampton, Southampton,
> SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~hf99r
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