SSATool

[adrianmak]

any tutorial on this tool ?

[[P]ako]

Read the html that comes with it.

[Soshen]

do you have see for visual /move and rotation?

[[P]ako]

RaistlinMajere,

So, I followed the link on your webpage about Mono en I tried to run SSATools 3.0 in my PB G4 loaded with OS X 10.3.9. I am not a programmer so, much of the language of the messages I get is sort of Japanese for me.

First, I opened a Shell window and I tried to run the application and I got:

$ mono /Users/pako/Desktop/SSATool/SSATool.exe

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for System.Windows.Forms.XplatUI ---> System.ArgumentNullException: Could not open display (X-Server required. Check you DISPLAY environment variable)
Parameter name: Display
at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUIX11.SetDisplay (IntPtr display_handle) [0x00000]
at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUIX11..ctor () [0x00000]
at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUIX11.GetInstance () [0x00000]
at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUI..cctor () [0x00000] --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

at <0x00000> <unknown method>
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.get_CreateParams () [0x00000]
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.get_CreateParams () [0x00000]
at System.Windows.Forms.Control..ctor () [0x00000]
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl..ctor () [0x00000]
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl..ctor () [0x00000]
at System.Windows.Forms.Form..ctor () [0x00000]
at SSATool.Form1..ctor () [0x00000]
at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) SSATool.Form1:.ctor ()
at SSATool.Form1.Main () [0x00000]

I read there something about X11, so I opened an X11 window and:

$ mono /Users/pako/Desktop/SSATool/SSATool.exe
Gtk not found (missing LD_LIBRARY_PATH to libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0?), using built-in
colorscheme

** ERROR **: Opcode 'store_memindex' missing from machine description file.
aborting...

================================================== ===============
Got a SIGABRT while executing native code. This usually indicates
a fatal error in the mono runtime or one of the native libraries
used by your application.
================================================== ===============

Stacktrace:

at SSATool.Form1..ctor () <0xffffffff>
at SSATool.Form1..ctor () <0x000b8>
at SSATool.Form1..ctor () <0x000b4>
at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) SSATool.Form1..ctor () <0x00048>
at SSATool.Form1.Main () <0x0002c>
at (wrapper runtime-invoke) System.Object.runtime_invoke_void (object,intptr,i
ntptr,intptr) <0x0005c>
Abort trap

I don't know whether I need GTK. Should install it for the sake of it. Anyway, I tried your latest version of the tool too and it gave me a shorter error message. As support for .NET 2.0 in Mono is not as good as for .NET 1.1, I quickly gave up on it.

Any pointers? Is there anything that those messages are telling me besides that I have to study programming? I'd appreciate any help.

[RaistlinMajere]

I've never tried Mono. It was only a suggestion that it might work. Hopefully Mono will develop far enough to run SSATool.

[RaistlinMajere]

Originally Posted by Soshen

do you have see for visual /move and rotation?

in the pipeline for 5.0, no ETA for that yet. I haven't started it, been involved in other things and haven't been able to work on SSATool at all.

[[P]ako]

Originally Posted by RaistlinMajere

I've never tried Mono. It was only a suggestion that it might work. Hopefully Mono will develop far enough to run SSATool.

And I took it as such, I gave it a try but it didn't work. Also, I posted the logs because I thought I may need something else to run it.

Anyway, I haven't tried another .NET programs yet. I am planning to do it but at the moment I am very lazy.

Thanks for replying.

[RaistlinMajere]

4.3.2
-Workaround for crash when line is 259 characters long
-Workaround to prevent splitter from stealing focus on resize (by design, MS? What were you thinking?)
-Fix in default notebox template

[Soshen]

any news for visual rotation?

and there are possibility for ad a "copy color from image" for setup the color of font like a color on video...

[RaistlinMajere]

I answered that less than a week ago, and said I hadn't even started working on it...

[RaistlinMajere]

4.3.3
-A bunch of fixes for noteboxes
-Don't bother to scale resolution if the factor is 1:1

[RaistlinMajere]

4.3.4
-Fixed/tweaked some UI stuff
-More resize code added
-Fixed double click in error list
-Optimized some stuff
-All karaoke variables now index from 0, not 1. This will break backwards compatibility with some karaoke, but it has never been consistent, so I am changing it. (first karaoke block will now have %karanum% be 0, not 1, etc.)
-Fixed %karamid%

[[P]ako]

I get an error, did you upload the file to the right folder?

[RaistlinMajere]

Nope, I uploaded a rar instead of a 7z. Fixed now.

[[P]ako]

Cool. Thank you.

[RaistlinMajere]

By the way, I looked into the text rotation and stuff, it's going to be quite a while before I can implement it. C# is starting to become a limitation...

[Chokehold]

This might already be in the HTML file that comes along with the package, but... I'm having a hard time understanding everything.

So I'll just go ahead and explain my problem and maybe a kind soul can help me in a better direction.

let's say I have these \k commands for each syllable.
Or rather...
{\K22}Nna {\K26}yat{\K24}saa {\K26}in{\K22}a{\K22}i{\K20}yo {\K25}do{\K24}ko {\K45}dat{\K63}te

Let's use the first one as a pointer. \K22.
What I'd just love, is some sort of automation to allow me to have it:
Turn into hundreds of seconds (multiply by 10, to be in the same format as \t timecodes), make a variable out of this. Let's call it %k1%
After this is done, insert \K22\t(0,%k1%/2,accelerator,\command for first half of syllable)\t(%k1/2,%k1%,accelerator,\command for second half).
For instance, first half could be a simple \fscy60 and the second half back to \fscy100, for a bouncy effect. I think you're all with me on what I mean.
For the second \K, that is \K26, have it multiply by 10 for \t compatibility, use %k1% for the start timestamp of the first half of the next syllable, and so forth and so forth.

This is of course doable by hand, no question about that, I'm just wondering if SSATool can (at current, mind you I'm not requesting an update, just discovering the tool here) save me these 3 days of typing?
(Yes I've done this myself, and it took me 3 days of calculating, typing, calculating typing, and so forth, for one opening karaoke. >_>)

I'd really really appreciate a reply on this. Thanks in advance!
Knew I C#, I'd help out if the above is not possible with this app, but unfortunately this is not the situation.
Thanks for a great application and making a great effort on making fansubbing easier for the rest of us! Mad props and kudos to RaistlinMajere!
Again, thanks in advance.

[Minatsuki]

Originally Posted by Chokehold

let's say I have these \k commands for each syllable.
Or rather...
{\K22}Nna {\K26}yat{\K24}saa {\K26}in{\K22}a{\K22}i{\K20}yo {\K25}do{\K24}ko {\K45}dat{\K63}te

Let's use the first one as a pointer. \K22.
What I'd just love, is some sort of automation to allow me to have it:
Turn into hundreds of seconds (multiply by 10, to be in the same format as \t timecodes), make a variable out of this. Let's call it %k1%
After this is done, insert \K22\t(0,%k1%/2,accelerator,\command for first half of syllable)\t(%k1/2,%k1%,accelerator,\command for second half).
For instance, first half could be a simple \fscy60 and the second half back to \fscy100, for a bouncy effect. I think you're all with me on what I mean.
For the second \K, that is \K26, have it multiply by 10 for \t compatibility, use %k1% for the start timestamp of the first half of the next syllable, and so forth and so forth.

SSATool can do this..
\t(%karastart%,%karamid%,accel,\command for first half)\t(%karamid%,%karaend%,accel,\command for second half)

theres plenty more "variables", you can see them in the help file..
you input all this in the "karaoke effects" tab.

add layer>add effect>raw code.

theres a whole section on it in the help file.

[RaistlinMajere]

minor update

4.3.5
-Truetype Collection (TTC) font files are supported in the font finder
-Factorial should work now
-More optimizations/cleanups

[Harukalover]

Really a great tool.

But recently I got an error that I haven't been able to solve.

Whenever I try to open the Layer-Per-Syllable.xml or the notebox.xml, I get a "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

I tried reinstalling the 2.0 Framework but that didn't fix it. Also tried two different versions and neither worked. (4.3.3. and 4.3.5)

Any idea of a solution?