Hello- I have been evaluating Metacard 2.3 as a replacement for IconAuthor commercial development. So far so good, nice product. I appreciate the try it - buy it opportunity. I also appreciate the active mail list. One area that I am having problems is playing AVI/FLC content within cards on UNIX (Solaris) systems. I understand Xanim is required as a player, but I'm looking for examples of how to invoke it. Is it such that the avi is not actually playing within the card, but rather is playing outside the card and it is the developer's responsibility to code window position, etc. ? I am able to play a clip through Xanim externally, but when I try to specify the file name in a "player" object, MetaCard crashes. This is the case with several different animations/movies using different codecs. I presume I just don't understand what is happening. In IconAuthor (gone the way of the DODO bird), a player object could be drawn on the page (card) and a file name specified. Here, what would appear to be similar functionality, is not working as I expect. By the way, these are very small files. Does anyone have any pointers, instructions, examples or suggestions they could share? Are there any viable alternatives to Xanim on the UNIX platforms I should be looking at for animation/video. Thanks -- John J. Theobald
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