HouseBot

Scott:

I am still working on integrating Meedio into HouseBot. Now Meedio has a new plugin which displays images from actors on a movie screen.
The images are stored on my hd locally and are of the .jpg type. However these images don't have the extention .jpg to go with it. A filename looks something like: mn000157
When I try to load such an image into a dynamic image, it is rejected because it is not of a proper file extension type.
Would it be possible to test files against a valid .jpg without having to put the extension in the filename?

Bug?!:
When typing a filename that doesn't exist into a porperty which is linked to a dynamic image, the server errors out with the following dump. Very easy to reproduce. I have mentioned this once already via email, but that was a long time ago. Maybe you want to address this for version 3.0


====== Begin Dump - Sunday, April 08, 2007 13:42:50 ======
Server Version = 2.32.01

==================================
======== House Server Thread =======
==================================
Thread Type = Client Socket Thread
Thread ID = 10B0
Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
Fault address: 0050262D 01:0010162D C:\Program Files\Meedio\Meedio HouseBot\HouseBotServer.exe

Registers:
EAX:1259FF2C
EBX:003CF590
ECX:00570580
EDX:08CB9C50
ESI:12001520
EDI:11E4ADD0
CS:EIP:001B:0050262D
SS:ESP:0023:12EBF4FC EBP:005C3EFE
DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003B GS:0000
Flags:00010202

Call stack:
Address Frame
0050262D 005C3EFE CxImage::`copy constructor closure'+100BBD
72657672 65535049 0000:00000000


====== End Dump ======

What kind of Property are you assigning to the dynamic image? I've tried with a file property type and was not able to reproduce the crash.

V3 will allow you to use images without extensions for this.

That would be a standard Alpha-Numeric property type. I feel bad already.

And wow... I have been programming for the last two hours to convert a huge text data file so that the extention .jpg is put after each image filename using regular expressions and creating a script for renaming all of these images. I guess I will abort that right now knowing it will work without these extensions.

What can I say?! You Rock


EDIT:

OK, Now the SWRemote just exits when it tries to display an image that isn't there. Need some further testing though!

EDIT 2:

First time I can select a file from the sever by selecting the datafield of the fileproperty. However when selecting a file, only the file itself comes up whereas I would expect the whole path from root upto the filename to show.

Richard Naninck wrote:First time I can select a file from the sever by selecting the datafield of the fileproperty. However when selecting a file, only the file itself comes up whereas I would expect the whole path from root upto the filename to show.

Yea, you have to enter the name manually, just like it was an alpha-numeric type to get the full path and file name. I guess I should probably change the behavior of the file selection dialog to include the full path too.

Yep, that would make it usefull. Now it kind of isn't..
Just nice for testing though because all of these properties are set using scripting and these script provide full paths.

I just deleted my 2 hours work. Thanks for mentioning or else I would have spent some more hours for nothing.

Actually.. I just confused myself. If I use the 'path and filename' property it DOES correctly insert the full path. I was incorrectly using just the 'filename' property, which was doing what it should have.

Time for me to go to bed I guess. This works fine. I am a bit ashamed by not catching all of this simple stuff. This one does work like it should for me. I will have to adjust many many properties to get this right although the Alpha-Numeric also works fine except it crashes the server when a none existing file is inserted.

Tanks again