Hello, everybody. I recently installed Synfig Studio on my Mac (iMac 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo, OSX 10.5.8 ) via Fink. Although i’m in the midst of getting acquainted with the program, i’ve noticed a couple of things that aren’t working "as advertised“.
I’m trying to import an image sequence into Synfig Studio (http://synfig.org/wiki/Doc:How_Do_I#Import_a_movie_into_Synfig.3F), but importing the .lst file produces a blank placeholder. Importing a single image does however work correctly (other than regardless of the image’s actual size/ratio it’s imported in at 64px x 64 px – is this normal behaviour?).
Using synfig from the terminal using --listimporter results in…
error: Standard Exception: Document not well-formed.
Unable to load 'sequence.lst'.
Throwing out job...
Nothing to do!
I’ve written Synfig’s Mac maintainer, Hisashi T Fujinaka, about this problem and he replied…
ALT-clicking a color in the Palette Editor does not choose Fill color, but Outline color (same as clicking normally in the Palette Editor).
yes, that sounds like a Synfig issue rather than a Fink package issue. Can you post the sequence.lst file somewhere?
I also see the same behaviour for left-Click and Alt-left-click. Clicking on the middle button, however, does change the fill colour. (see synfig.org/wiki/Doc:Getting_Started ). I’m guessing this is a Mac limitation where you only have 2 (or one?) mouse button?
FPS 25
VID00047stab1 001.jpg
...
VID00047stab1 137.jpg
…located in the same directory as the sequence. For the sake of brevity, i didn’t list the other 135 JPGs on that .lst. Nevertheless it’s generated by a ls ./*.jpg >> filename.lst as per directions on the wiki.
Confirmed! It does work. I have a Wacom tablet attached with the side button configured for right-click (up) and middle-click (down). I was ALT-clicking instead of middle-click. Thanks!
EDIT: sorry, my mistake. It makes no difference with which mouse button i click on a color, nor with any key sequence plus any mouse-button click – there is no way to select a fill color directly from the Palette Editor. I tried with both the Wacom tablet’s pen and three-button mouse and the Apple optical mouse.
Spaces in the names…that’s exactly what the problem was. I substituted an underscore for the space in the filenames and Synfig imported the list no problem.
To note: the parser doesn’t like periods either, as i tried substituting the space with a period without success. But underscores it understands.
Unfortunately, the color picker problem still exists but i’ll put that down to running X on OSX.
Nevertheless it’s generated by a