[Papervision3D] Far manifest...

[Edwin van Rijkom]

The compress attribute indicates whether a file should be packed 'as 
is', or should get ZLIB compressed before adding it to the archive - 
it's unrelated to the FarItem.asX methods.

Speaking of which, for using FarItem.asBitmap, you'll need my latest 
local version of the API, which for the time being I've uploaded to 
http://vanrijkom.org/far/far_0.1.r2.zip (includes upd. archiver tool 
too), until I get a chance to update the Google code page.

Cheers,
Edwin

John Grden wrote:
> ha! excellent:
>
> <!--
> ============================================
> Far (Flash Archive) Manifest file, v.0.1
> --------------------------------------------
>
> Build an archive from this manifest, using:
>    far -m path-to-manifest
>
> ============================================
> -->
> <far-manifest target="mexico.far">
>
>    <!--
>    Priorities, ranked from highest to lowest.
>
>    Higher priority files are placed at the beginning of the
>    archive so they will be streamed in first .
>    -->
>
>    <priorities>
>        <priority>default</priority>
>    </priorities>
>
>    <!--
>    Source files, in random order.
>    -->
>
>    <source compress="1" priority="default">
>        <path>mexico/states.shp</path>
>        <index>mexico/states.shp</index>
>    </source>
>    <source compress="1" priority="default">
>        <path>mexico/rivers.shp</path>
>        <index>mexico/rivers.shp</index>
>    </source>
>    <source compress="1" priority="default">
>        <path>mexico/roads.shp</path>
>        <index>mexico/roads.shp</index>
>    </source><source compress="1" priority="default">
>        <path>mexico/cities.shp</path>
>        <index>mexico/cities.shp</index>
>    </source><source compress="1" priority="default">
>        <path>mexico/cities.dbf</path>
>        <index>mexico/cities.dbf</index>
>    </source>
> </far-manifest>
>
> Just wondering, does compress attribute directly relate to 
> FarItem.asBitmap,
> FarItem.asMovieClip, FarItem.asText ?  if not, what does the "1" stand 
> for
> (or is there a doc on the manifest usage?)
>
> Thanks Edwin - very exciting to see this taking shape!
>
> On 3/1/07, Edwin van Rijkom <lists at screenweaver.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> The -m option is for building an archive from an xml manifest file.
>> Using it on a .far file confused the XML parser. I'll make sure to put
>> in a better error. To extract a manifest from an existing .far file
>> though, use the -n option. So:
>>
>> > far.exe -n mexico.far
>>
>> should work, and should create 'mexico.xml' (the manifest).
>>
>> To repack the archive from the manifest:
>>
>> > far.exe -x mexico.far (to extract all files from the org. archive)
>> > far.exe -m mexico.xml
>>
>> Beware that extracting a manifest doesn't bring back the originally
>> specified priority groups, for those aren't stored in the archive to
>> keep things small. Normally though, the .far author would have the
>> original manifest (incl. priorities).
>>
>> The version that's currently on-line has a bug on adding files to
>> existing archives. This is fixed with my local build that I'll upload
>> shortly.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Edwin
>>
>> John Grden wrote:
>> > I tried grabbing the mexico.far from Edwin's site and then using the
>> > -m tag,
>> > but I get this error:
>> >
>> > FAR (Flash Archive) 0.1 - (C) 2007, Edwin van Rijkom
>> > http://www.vanrijkom.org
>> >
>> > Unhandled exception:
>> > Invalid field access : get
>> >
>> > On 3/1/07, John Grden <neoriley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I've got far installed, env variable set, cmd prompt working and I'm
>> >> trying to do this in a bat file:
>> >>
>> >> far "C:/Documents and Settings/John/My
>> >> Documents/Papervision3D/starwars/deploy/meshes" xwing.ASE 
>> deathstar.ASE
>> >> endor.ASE tiefighter.ASE
>> >> pause
>> >>
>> >> when I run this, it just keeps running the same line over and over 
>> and
>> >> over again until I cancel it with ctrl+c
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone have a manifest file I can look at to see how to
>> >> structure the
>> >> xml?  I can't find it on the wiki and there isn't a sample in the
>> >> download
>> >> ;)
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> [  JPG  ]
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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