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