Hi,
I've been using for a long time an old version of GEM, because for a series of compatibility and stability issues it was the only one that worked for me when I investigated, which was a couple of years ago (2007). At that time, the latest official release dated back to 2004 and the version I chose and still use is dated august 2006.
I should now try the latest version, however I'm getting some messages I can't understand, and above all I can't understand why I get these messages with the same version of PD and GEM on one machine and not on others when the only difference is Windows version (and possibly some third party software/codecs/drivers) but not PD or GEM versions.
Here's the all the init messages I get in Windows Vista:
=========== INIT MESSAGES IN WINDOWS VISTA; PD 0.42-4 ===== warning: old method 'width' for class 'curve' renamed 'width_aliased' warning: old method 'draw' for class 'curve' renamed 'draw_aliased' warning: old method 'draw' for class 'curve3d' renamed 'draw_aliased' warning: old method 'width' for class 'polygon' renamed 'width_aliased' warning: old method 'draw' for class 'polygon' renamed 'draw_aliased' warning: old method 'draw' for class 'primTri' renamed 'draw_aliased' warning: old method 'width' for class 'scopeXYZ' renamed 'width_aliased' warning: old method 'draw' for class 'scopeXYZ' renamed 'draw_aliased' warning: old method 'open' for class 'fragment_program' renamed 'open_aliased' warning: old method 'print' for class 'fragment_program' renamed 'print_aliased' warning: class 'pix_film' overwritten; old one renamed 'pix_film_aliased' warning: class 'pix_filmQT' overwritten; old one renamed 'pix_filmQT_aliased' warning: old method 'open' for class 'pix_movieNEW' renamed 'open_aliased' warning: old method 'img_num' for class 'pix_movieNEW' renamed 'img_num_aliased' warning: old method 'auto' for class 'pix_movieNEW' renamed 'auto_aliased' warning: class 'pix_videoDS' overwritten; old one renamed 'pix_videoDS_aliased' GEM: Graphics Environment for Multimedia GEM: ver: 0.90 GEM: compiled: Apr 12 2006 GEM: maintained by IOhannes m zmoelnig GEM: Authors : Mark Danks (original version on irix/windows) GEM: Chris Clepper (macOS-X) GEM: Daniel Heckenberg (windows) GEM: James Tittle (macOS-X) GEM: IOhannes m zmoelnig (linux/windows) Gem Man: QT init OK pix_film:: avi support =========================================================
On the other hand, on older machines with windows XP, with the same version of gem and also of PD I don't get any of the warning messages.
I have only a remote dubt (and cannot check) that I may be wrong about the PD version that does not give the warning messages: it could be 0.42-3; however I'm almost sure it is 0.42-4, the same that does give the warning - however both are definitely 0.42-x and both gem versions are the very same Gem.dll file.
Anybody can explain where's the difference? Also, what's the exact meaning and history of these messages? I'm sure this has already been discussed in the list but I can't find it in the archives (a typical case of difficult formulation of significant keyword combination), so if anybody can point me to an old thread where this was explained, that would be a great help.
Thank you in advance Matteo Sisti Sette