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Image Over Image

Jus

April 05, 2011 08:15

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Our main use for brightsign is for our touch systems for manufacturers. We are trying to create touch content that has touch changable layer on layer, or zone on zone. We have researched the discussions and found that brightsign can not have image.png over image.jpg. This would be a great feature to add as it would open many doors for content development. Until you add this,,,hint, hint,,, The best alternative seems to be a discussion we found about this and you suggested, "a video only zone with a video in it" and then to have an "image zone with a .png image in it". This works for our needs for now. The problem is the video keeps running over and over causing a jumpy effect. How do we "freeze" the selected video to look like a background image 1 And still have the interchangable .png images on top 1

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  RokuLyndon April 05, 2011 21:11

  
  
  We need to modify the script that gets published with brightauthor so it doesn't default to lopping a video when in interactive mode. We can change the loop mode so that it plays the video once, and then stops.
  
  What version of brightauthor are you using?
  
  To test this, you can open up the autorun.brs script on your flash card after publishing your project. It's just a text file. search for the launchvideo function, and then inside the launch video function, the set loopmode command.
  
  it will look like this:
  
  Sub LaunchVideo(zone As Object, state As Object, videoItem As Object, loopMode% As Integer)

   if m.debuggingSynchro then m.udpSender.Send("enter LaunchVideo")

   if type(zone.audioPlayer) = "roAudioPlayer" then
       zone.audioPlayer.Stop()
   endif
   
   m.StopSignChannelInZone(zone)
   
   file$ = videoItem.fileName$

   zone.videoPlayer.SetLoopMode(loopMode%)
  
  That last line in this snippet is the one we want to change to this:
  
  
  zone.videoPlayer.SetLoopMode(0)
  
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  Jus April 05, 2011 22:30

  
  
  We are using Brightauthor version 2.2.0.36.
  
  Your suggested proceedure worked perfectly !
  Thank you, you are a hero and a scholar.
  And you saved us hours of testing and re-testing.
  Although "Image zone over image zone" software update is still the best option......
  
  Our office, specializing in touch systems, have tested many solid state player systems and related software.
  We are still in the early testing stages but so far find Brightsign and Brightauthor to be the best we have tested.
  We plan to slowly shift all of our "solid state client base" over to your systems.
  Keep up the good work !
  
  P.S. - I can't believe we overlooked Brightsign at the DSE show in Vegas.
  
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  RokuLyndon April 06, 2011 00:28

  
  
  I'll ask about the image over image, but I have a feeling there's not going to be a solution on the current platform.