Do you really need such a large single image? Can you change the bit depth, or perhaps break it into a number of smaller images that you can tile together?
At 07:28 PM 6/2/02 +0200, Michael von Aichberger wrote: >Hi! > >2 questions: > >1) > >I had a very large Director movie - 187 MB on the hard disk -, which was >mainly so large because of one very large bitmap cast member (150 MB alone). >I didn't want to have this big picture in there, but I had no choice, >because of a Director bug (I reported that earlier). Anyway. I wanted to >streamline the size of the Director movie a bit and I did "save and >compact". > >So now the file size is 333 MB. And the directImage Xtra won't export my >image anymore pretending it didn't have enough memory. (1 GB installed, >win2k, Dir 8.5) >When the file size still was at 187 MB, the export worked fine. > >How can I get the filesize down again? > >2) >The Lingo commands freebytes or freeblocks are of no use at all, because >they are only telling the installed memory, regardless of how many programs >are running or how much objects I put into memory. Is there another way of >knowing how much memory is used? > >I mean, Director says: 1024 MB free, DirectImage says: Not enough. That's >not funny. > >Thanks >Michael [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
