Synfig 0.61.01

Sunday, November 6, 2005 by darco
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Here is the latest Synfig release.

ETL ChangeLog

  • Various GCC 4.0 fixes
  • make check should now work just fine

Synfig Core ChangeLog

  • src/synfig/savecanvas.cpp: added #include <sys/errorno.h>
  • src/synfig/value.cpp: Various GCC 4.0 fixes
  • src/modules/mod_bmp/trgt_bmp.cpp: The BMP target was broken. It's now fixed.
  • examples: Removed SFAutomaton font due to licensing issues.
  • All: Updated copyright notice to reflect new license

Synfig Core TODO

  • Re-write font system. (The "simple text" layer is a dirty,dirty hack)
  • Use pre-multiplied alpha to speed up compositing
  • Solidify plug in system to be more robust (Auto-detect and load?)
  • Solidify and codify XML file format into XML schema
  • Make layer and value-node parameters handled in the same way. (currently different)
  • Move to a garbage-collected system rather than reference counted
  • Integrate a scripting language (Possibly better suited for libsynfigapp?)
  • Finish and migrate to a new surface layer class
    • Arbitrary color/alpha channels
    • Surface locking/unlocking
    • Copy-on-write
  • Make the "Value" class extendable by plug-ins
  • Add paremeter mechanism to render target class to allow user to control things like:
    • Color depth
    • Codec
    • etc.
  • Review/rewrite error-handling and reporting mechanism
  • Migrate public API to be more language agnostic in nature
  • Network-distributed rendering
  • Solid multi-threaded rendering

Wanted Plug-Ins

  • mod_svg: SVG Import/Export
  • mod_quicktime: Support for importing/rendering-to quicktime movies (MacOS X and Windows Only)
  • mod_imageio: Support for Apple's ImageIO framework (MacOS X Only)
  • mod_tiff: Using libtiff
  • mod_wmv: Support for Windows Media for importing/rendering-to wmv/avi movies (Windows only)

Synfig Studio ChangeLog

  • src/gtkmm/render.cpp: Fixed default render file to use the directory seperator for the given OS, rather than just use forward slashes all the time.

Synfig Studio TODO

  • Re-implement draw tool
  • Re-implement WorkArea class to use OpenGL
  • Migrate toward extensible plug-in architecture
  • Migrate toward scripted architecture
  • Ability for "Auto Recover" feature to recover edit history
  • Ability to edit curves in the curves tab.
  • Subversion integration
  • Integrated error console tab
  • Clean up crazy confusing console output

Wishful Thinking

  • Visual conflict resolution for version control merging conflicts

Long Term

  • Make majority of user-interface components controlled by scripts

Where are the binaries?

Um... They aren't ready yet. My windows box is at home and I'm back in Seattle finishing up the loose ends of my move. Be glad you got anything.

Expect a Win32 build and a MacOS X build (using X11) sometime this week.

If anyone could make some binary linux packages for the various distributions, let me know about it and I'll post some links. I have very little desire to make linux binary packages myself.

Where is the animation tutorial?

In my head. I'll try to get it out over the next week or so. In the mean time, try playing around with the compositions in the example directory.

Fun trick: Open up about_dialog.sif and logo.sif at the same time. Now click on the logo in logo.sif, and goto the parameter tab, and turn off "children lock". Click again on one of the lines of the logo—it should select. Now muck with it. Change it. Move some ducks around. Watch about_dialog.sif! Notice how whenever you change logo.sif, the logo in the other composition updates as well. Neato, eh? :)

Common man, I want to animate!

OK fine, here is a hint to get you started mucking with animation. Each composition has a begin time and an end time. By default, they are set to the same thing—meaning that it is just a still image and not an animation. When you are editing a still image, all of the necessary animation mechanisms are hidden, so you must set an end time before you can start animating! You can do this from the properties dialog.

More to come...


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20 Comments for “Synfig 0.61.01”

  1. Hellmark Says:
    Sunday, November 6, 2005

    Ok, tried compiling using GCC4, but still got problems. ETL went fine, and synfig compiled mostly, but after cranking away for a while it puked this.

    g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../../.. -I../../.. -I../../../src -I/usr/include/libxml++-2.6 -I/usr/lib/libxml++-2.6/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -DSYNFIG_NO_DEPRECATED -DNDEBUG -Wno-deprecated -O2 -ffast-math -W -Wall -Wno-unused-parameter -fpermissive -MT liblyr_std_la-stretch.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/liblyr_std_la-stretch.Tpo -c stretch.cpp  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/liblyr_std_la-stretch.o
../../../src/synfig/context.h:55: warning: 'class synfig::Context' has virtual functions but non-virtual destructor
stretch.cpp: In member function 'virtual synfig::Vector Stretch_Trans::perform(const synfig::Vector&) const':
stretch.h:49: error: 'synfig::Vector synfig::Layer_Stretch::amount' is private
stretch.cpp:138: error: within this context
stretch.h:50: error: 'synfig::Point synfig::Layer_Stretch::center' is private
stretch.cpp:138: error: within this context
stretch.cpp: In member function 'virtual synfig::Vector Stretch_Trans::unperform(const synfig::Vector&) const':
stretch.h:49: error: 'synfig::Vector synfig::Layer_Stretch::amount' is private
stretch.cpp:143: error: within this context
stretch.h:50: error: 'synfig::Point synfig::Layer_Stretch::center' is private
stretch.cpp:143: error: within this context
make[4]: *** [liblyr_std_la-stretch.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/hellmark/code/synfig-0.61.01/src/modules/lyr_std'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/hellmark/code/synfig-0.61.01/src/modules'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hellmark/code/synfig-0.61.01/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hellmark/code/synfig-0.61.01'
make: *** [all] Error 2
  2. darco darco* Says:
    Sunday, November 6, 2005

    Hrrm. Will fix when I can.

  3. phluaria Says:
    Monday, November 7, 2005

    I will second this–same error, using GCC4.0.2, about 7min into compilation

  4. Pulphix Says:
    Tuesday, November 8, 2005

    Hi, I tried compiling synfig, and I have problem with the OpenEXR modules. this is the error:

    Making all in mod_openexr
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/fabio/archlinux-pack/synfig/src/synfig-0.61.01/src/modules/mod_openexr'
if /bin/sh ../../../libtool –mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../../.. -I../../.. -I../../../src   -I/usr/include/libxml++-2.6 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -DSYNFIG_NO_DEPRECATED -march=i686  -pipe -DNDEBUG -Wno-deprecated -O2 -ffast-math -W -Wall -Wno-unused-parameter -fpermissive -MT libmod_openexr_la-main.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/libmod_openexr_la-main.Tpo" -c -o libmod_openexr_la-main.lo `test -f 'main.cpp' || echo './'`main.cpp; \
then mv -f ".deps/libmod_openexr_la-main.Tpo" ".deps/libmod_openexr_la-main.Plo"; else rm -f ".deps/libmod_openexr_la-main.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
 g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../../.. -I../../.. -I../../../src -I/usr/include/libxml++-2.6 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -DSYNFIG_NO_DEPRECATED -march=i686 -pipe -DNDEBUG -Wno-deprecated -O2 -ffast-math -W -Wall -Wno-unused-parameter -fpermissive -MT libmod_openexr_la-main.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libmod_openexr_la-main.Tpo -c main.cpp  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libmod_openexr_la-main.o
In file included from trgt_openexr.h:33,
                 from main.cpp:35:
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:50:23: error: ImfHeader.h: No such file or directory
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:51:28: error: ImfFrameBuffer.h: No such file or directory
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:52:21: error: ImfRgba.h: No such file or directory
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:53:22: error: ImathVec.h: No such file or directory
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:54:22: error: ImathBox.h: No such file or directory
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:55:18: error: half.h: No such file or directory
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:77: error: expected ',' or '...' before '&' token
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:87: error: expected `)' before '&' token
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:98: error: 'Imath' has not been declared
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:98: error: expected ',' or '...' before '&' token
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:105: error: 'Imf::RgbaOutputFile::RgbaOutputFile(const char*, int)' cannot be overloaded
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:78: error: with 'Imf::RgbaOutputFile::RgbaOutputFile(const char*, int)'
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:117: error: 'RgbaChannels' has not been declared
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:119: error: 'Imath' has not been declared
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:119: error: expected ',' or '...' before 'screenWindowCenter'
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:140: error: expected ',' or '...' before '*' token
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:157: error: expected ';' before '&' token
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:158: error: expected ';' before '&' token
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:159: error: 'Imath' has not been declared
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:159: error: expected ';' before '&' token
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:160: error: 'Imath' has not been declared
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:160: error: expected ';' before '&' token
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:162: error: 'Imath' has not been declared
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:162: error: 'V2f' does not name a type
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:164: error: 'LineOrder' does not name a type
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:165: error: 'Compression' does not name a type
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:166: error: 'RgbaChannels' does not name a type
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:117: error: 'WRITE_RGBA' was not declared in this scope
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:228: error: expected `)' before '&' token
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:245: error: 'Rgba' has not been declared
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:262: error: expected ';' before '&' token
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:263: error: expected ';' before '&' token
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:264: error: 'Imath' has not been declared
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:264: error: expected ';' before '&' token
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:265: error: 'Imath' has not been declared
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:265: error: expected ';' before '&' token
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:267: error: 'Imath' has not been declared
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:267: error: 'V2f' does not name a type
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:269: error: 'LineOrder' does not name a type
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:270: error: 'Compression' does not name a type
/usr/include/OpenEXR/ImfRgbaFile.h:271: error: 'RgbaChannels' does not name a type
trgt_openexr.h:50: error: using-declaration for non-member at class scope
trgt_openexr.h:50: error: expected ';' before '*' token
trgt_openexr.h:51: error: 'Rgba' is not a member of 'Imf'
trgt_openexr.h:51: error: 'Rgba' is not a member of 'Imf'
trgt_openexr.h:51: error: template argument 1 is invalid
trgt_openexr.h:51: error: template argument 2 is invalid
trgt_openexr.h:51: error: template argument 3 is invalid
make[4]: *** [libmod_openexr_la-main.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/fabio/archlinux-pack/synfig/src/synfig-0.61.01/src/modules/mod_openexr'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/fabio/archlinux-pack/synfig/src/synfig-0.61.01/src/modules'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/fabio/archlinux-pack/synfig/src/synfig-0.61.01/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/fabio/archlinux-pack/synfig/src/synfig-0.61.01'
make: *** [all] Error 2

    I use Archlinux 0.7.1 with: gcc 4.0.2 OpenEXR 1.2.2

    bye

  5. Steakhouse Says:
    Thursday, November 10, 2005

    Btw Rob, allowing a person to finish a Bline by right-clicking an end point and having a quick dialogue 'Make Bline' would streamline things a good bit... dont know if I asked for this one during development or not...

  6. iznogoud Says:
    Thursday, November 10, 2005

    "Expect a Win32 build and a MacOS X build (using X11) sometime this week."

    That's good news! BTW, I tried to build it from sources. On Tiger, it simply fails because of (at least) gcc4.0. On panther, it failed, because of gcc, but I don't remember the error:(

  7. darco darco* Says:
    Thursday, November 10, 2005

    Win32 build:

    Synfig Core 0.61.01 Win32
    Synfig Studio 0.61.01 Win32

    MacOSX Build (Requires X11):

    Synfig 0.61.01

  8. Steakhouse Says:
    Thursday, November 10, 2005

    Do I have to install all the pervious versions in order before installing 0.61.01? becasue I'm getting a strange error when I try and run this time.

    Warning: settings::load_from_file: Key "wingdow.color.pos" with a value of "" was rejected.
Warning: settings::load_from_file: Key "wingdow.color.size" with a value of "" was rejected.
Warning: settings::load_from_file: Key "wingdow.gradient.pos" with a value of "" was rejected.
Warning: settings::load_from_file: Key "wingdow.gradient.size" with a value of "" was rejected.
  9. darco Says:
    Thursday, November 10, 2005

    Ignore those errors.

  10. Steakhouse Says:
    Thursday, November 10, 2005

    I would love to but they prevent the program from opening :)

  11. darco Says:
    Thursday, November 10, 2005

    Those are warnings and should not be fatal. I doubt they are what is causing the program not to load. If you have to, try uninstalling and reinstalling. If that doesn't work, try deleting the following file:

    C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_LOGIN\Synfig

  12. Sean Roth Says:
    Friday, November 11, 2005

    I got the same errors as Hellmark and Pulphix... when are these going to be fixed?

  13. speedwings Says:
    Friday, November 11, 2005

    What about all the dlls like libxml++-2.6-2.dll? I found the others on Inkscape, but seems libxml++-2.6-2.dll is a ghost... (sorry for my english)

  14. darco* Says:
    Friday, November 11, 2005

    Seeing that no one is paying me to work on this (and that I'm being paid to work on something entirely different), it will have to wait until I get some free time this weekend.

  15. Hugo Says:
    Saturday, November 12, 2005

    I got the same errors as Hellmark and Pulphix... in Ubuntu.

  16. placide Says:
    Friday, November 18, 2005

    I got the same errors as Pulphix... in Ubuntu Breezy. I remove the openexr packages, but no luck I got the Hellmark errors. Any idea?!?

  17. darco Says:
    Friday, November 18, 2005

    Yes. I have ideas. I am just short on time. Considering it's friday and I have the whole weekend ahead of me, I think it's quite likely that I'll have a new release over the weekend. Look forward to it. :)

  18. Dr-ROX Says:
    Wednesday, January 25, 2006

    I got this error when compiling studio on Ubuntu 6.04:

    make[3]: *** [synfigstudio-dockdialog.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/sanis/Synfig/synfigstudio-0.61.04/src/gtkmm'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/sanis/Synfig/synfigstudio-0.61.04/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sanis/Synfig/synfigstudio-0.61.04'
make: *** [all] Error 2

    Other two patrs compiled OK.

  19. espen Says:
    Tuesday, March 28, 2006

    I have installed synfigstudio on two machines. One debian and one SUSE. I'm not able to draw anything on the canvas on any of them. Think I'v tried everything. Looks like the canvas is locked in some way.

    What am I doing wrong???

  20. darco* Says:
    Wednesday, March 29, 2006

    Espen:

    It is quite likely that the plug-ins are not getting loaded properly. Try running "synfig –modules" at the command line.

    Join either the IRC Channel or Jabber Conference Room for more help.

    I am closing comments on this post because the best place to seek help for synfig is on the synfig website, synfig mailing lists, or the synfig wiki.

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