[Bf-committers] Re: Screen dump - OpenGL content

Jean Montambeault iaminnocent at videotron.ca
Tue Sep 12 13:12:59 CEST 2006


Rui Campos wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My current knowledge only allows me to do this type of recording.
>
> I'm already able to record most of the keys / mouse events on a stack, but
> my problem is playing them back, moving the mouse and pressing the keys
> again, if I could do this I would write a simple Python API and script for
> it.
> The problem is that I didn't find a nice way to move the mouse to a given
> location and issue keyboard commands. If anyone can help me I rather do
> this instead.
>
> -- Rui --
>   
Just a couple of questions to take with a grain of salt since they come 
from a man who knows just enough to be dangerous ;)  :

In the case that you go for and event stack :
   -isn't the event system being recoded by Lukep right now ? If so how 
much of your efforts would soon become obsolete if any ?
   -replaying the events, without any undo stack, can take a loog time 
can't it ? Much longer than a video sequence.

In the case you go for OpenGL recording :
   -how much overhead will this add to Blender ? Won't it slow down to a 
crawl on most machines ?
 A possible solution to this would be to suspend the recording while 
Blender is working hard and blocking the user from accessing the UI anyway.

Now can you tell me what is your motivation ?
Until now I just couldn't shake off the impression that yours is a 
solution in quest for a problem.
I make a lot of tutorial for the company where I work, some are about 
Blender, and I use Camstudio with its lossless codec (less overhead at 
recording time) with litterally perfect ease.
Many other solutions exist so why ?

If nothing else your answers will make my reading this thread a lot more 
comfortable.

Congrats for the new baby :)

Jean



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