Hi Robert, sounds interesting, i will not be able to join SanDiego. (at least not until now) Will you announce your program to the list? I'm interested.
Btw. As Content publisher you might find http://www.mirrorX.de very useful (cocoa app). You can of course also use it to distribute your .tafs to servers. Christian > Von: Robert Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Antworten an: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Datum: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 07:23:39 -0700 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: Re: Witango-Talk: External Action & ImageMagick on Mac OS X > > If you are writing the file out, make sure the user witango has writes > to where it is being written. > > I spent a lot of time with imagemagick about a year ago or so. I wanted > to have a crossplatform method for doing high quality scaling. I > already did all kinds of conversions with RealBasic, but the > highquality scaling avail. in photoshop, or imagemagick was eluding me. > I even went so far to dl the source, and I even was able to compile a > library for each platform with codewarrior, including a carbon version. > The carbonization was a bitch. But then Quicktime 6 came out. The QT 6 > API has the ability to convert just about anything from anything, and > apple updated the "none" codec in the QT 6 API to include High Quality > BiCubic Scaling (same as photoshop). So in all of my apps I write, I > use the QT api and it works great on all platforms, and is highly > optimized. > > I have also written all the methods to have my apps be controlled from > witango, without the use of an external action. I use a tcf call. You > use the tcf, passing parameters of the file location, and what you want > done to the image, and where you want it put when done. The code in the > tcf communicates to the app, and the app does the work in a thread, so > it can handle another concurrent request. It can batch folders also. > > I have been holding up the development for a couple of reasons. I was > waiting to see how the Wisp API from witango was going to look, and > there did not seem to that much interest from the community at the > time. I also am just finishing a patent application regarding some of > the whole systems I developed. > > I just got Wisp last week. I am working through the API. I am going to > be doing a seminar at the witango conference showing how you can create > solutions for customers using Witanog/RealBasic and possibly wisp. My > hope is that I will have enough done to give a lot of this to the > community. It won't be free, but it won't be expensive. Cheap enough > for a small developer. > > Anyway, If you give me the exact specs of what your solution is, it > might help me to give you something to beta test, and you wont have to > deal with imagemagick. I have spent a couple of years developing my > content publishing system, and it works well. > > Robert. > > > > On Sunday, June 29, 2003, at 05:39 AM, Chris Millet wrote: > >> How would I do this? I tried changing permissions to 775 and even 777 >> and I >> still received the same error. >> >> Chris >> >>> Has'nt that to do with write pernmissions? You might have to act as >>> root for some actions. >>> >>> Christian >>> >>> Am Samstag, 28.06.03 um 18:28 Uhr schrieb Chris Millet: >>> >>>> I set up a simple script invoking the 'whoami' command and it works >>>> fine >>>> both from the command line and as an external action. However, when I >>>> rewrite the script to invoke ImageMagick's 'convert' utility, it >>>> works >>>> fine >>>> from the command line, but not as an external action. Instead, I >>>> receive the >>>> following error: >>>> >>>> [Application�File] [4] START /scripts/script.taf >>>> WitangoServer >>>> [External�Action] [5] External >>>> [Query] [5] /Volumes/XRAID/mg2/scripts/whoami.sh; Parameters: >>>> x=LOGO:; >>>> [External�Action] [5] Forking process >>>> [External�Action] [12] Waiting on the child process >>>> [External�Action] [112] Error: No child processes >>>> [External�Action] [112] Waiting done >>>> [ActionResults] [115] >>>> [External�Action] [116] Complete >>>> [Results�Action] [117] Results >>>> [request$�Vars] [118] variableTimeout=30; >>>> resultSet=[Array:0x0]; >>>> >>>> >>>> The script "whoami.sh" >>>> ====================== >>>> #!/bin/sh >>>> convert $x /Volumes/XRAID/mg2/scripts/logo.gif >>>> >>>> I've also tried: >>>> >>>> #!/bin/sh >>>> /usr/local/bin/convert $x /Volumes/XRAID/mg2/scripts/logo.gif >>>> >>>> >>>> Any ideas why this won't run as an external action? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Chris >>>> >>>> _____________________________________________________________________ >>>> __ >>>> _ >>>> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf >>>> >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________________ >>> __ >>> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf >> >> _______________________________________________________________________ >> _ >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf >> >> > > -- > > Robert Garcia > President - BigHead Technology > CTO - eventpix.com > 2781 N Carlmont Pl > Simi Valley, Ca 93065 > ph: 805.522.8577 - cell: 805.501.1390 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/ - http://theradmac.com/ > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf
