[PD] GEM: speed of pix_film (fps) manipulation

[Johannes M Zmoelnig]

Max Neupert wrote:
> Am 21.11.2004 um 22:51 schrieb james tittle:
> 
>> ...yep, sadly this is true:  besides the auto method, there's also the 
>> (OSX-only) "rate" message (not in the pix_filmNEW/pix_filmQT)...of 
>> course, you can also control the rate of frame playback by setting up 
>> a variable metronome into a counter that loops based on the number of 
>> frames contained in the film...
> 
> 
> the rate-mesage! cool, that's what i was thinking of. a pity that it's 
> not cross plattform.
> 

obviously "auto 0.5" is less intuitive for you (and others) than "auto 
1" + "rate 0.5"

so the question is: should we change the other (OS-specific) 
implementations of pix_film to ignore things like "auto 2" ?
or should we make it compatible ?
e.g. the actual incrementor would be a product of <auto> and <rate> 
(ugly but compatible)
or just make rate and auto synonymons (but that would break the OSX-style)


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