Re: [Pipmak-Users] Play "cut Scenes"

[Christian W. <cwa...@gm...>]

Wenzler, Thomas wrote:
> Since the Pipmak engine is not capable of playing Movies ort he like at=
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> the moment, would it be possible to launch some external Application=20
> from Pipmak to handle =93cut scenes=94 ?

The current shipping Pipmak binaries don't include the Lua "os" library, =

so you can't launch any external programs (unless you compiled that=20
library into a loadable module and loaded it with "loadlib" - that=20
should work, I think).

A similar thing has been proposed for sound at one time, see=20
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.games.devel.pipmak.user/63/focus=3D64>.

> Or is this a possible security hazard beause you don=92t know what kind=
 of=20
> Application is launched to handle the Movieplaying?

That's the main motivation for not including the "os" library. Of=20
course, it's debatable whether this is a good reason, since a finished=20
game is supposed to include Pipmak, and the authors can compile whatever =

they want into the version of Pipmak they ship.

  -Christian