I moved the Quicktime initialization call so that it runs when GEM is loaded. The changes are in CVS.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Derek Holzer</b> <<a href="mailto:derek@umatic.nl">
derek@umatic.nl</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Maybe a better idea would be to include this in the help file of
<br>[pix_film] so that people know about it. Forgive me if it's in a doc<br>somewhere already, but I never recalled seeing this piece of info anywhere.<br><br>But besides documenting it, I can't really see what purpose it serves to
<br>have that error if it could be changed otherwise. People know they need<br>a window before they can see anything, anyway, and it's not like the<br>error it throws says "make a gemwin first, dummy!" ;-)<br>
<br>I could see this having problems if you had either an installation or a<br>performance patch which autoloaded clips, perhaps before the window was<br>created simply because the order of operations wasn't specific enough.
<br><br>Just my 2cents after a rather frustrating day ;-)<br>best,<br>d.<br><br>chris clepper wrote:<br>> I could change this to allow loading before window creation, but the<br>> general idea is that you need a window to do anything so create that first.
<br>><br>> On 7/24/07, * Derek Holzer* <<a href="mailto:derek@umatic.nl">derek@umatic.nl</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:derek@umatic.nl">derek@umatic.nl</a>>><br>> wrote:<br>><br>> ROTFLMAO. At myself!
<br>><br>> No, I didn't. Thanks Chris, now I know neither me or my laptop is crazy.<br>><br>> I should have thought of this after years of teaching people they need<br>> to open X11 to use PDP. I guess the idea is about the same...
<br>><br>> Everything appears to be in order now.<br>><br>> best,<br>> d.<br>><br>> chris clepper wrote:<br>> > You know you need to create a window before loading files right?
<br>><br>><br>> --<br>> derek holzer ::: <a href="http://www.umatic.nl">http://www.umatic.nl</a> :::<br>> <a href="http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista">http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista</a><br>> ---Oblique Strategy # 204:
<br>> "What do you do? Now, what do you do best?'"<br>><br>><br><br>--<br>derek holzer ::: <a href="http://www.umatic.nl">http://www.umatic.nl</a> ::: <a href="http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista">
http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista</a><br>---Oblique Strategy # 46:<br>"Disconnect from desire"<br></blockquote></div><br>