MING - importChar crashes apache...

itsallgood

Hi All,

I'm having a go with "ming".

Im trying to run a tutorial where you import a movieclip from a shared libaray...

Ming_setScale(20.0000000);
ming_useswfversion(6);
$movie=new SWFMovie();
$movie->setDimension(550,400);
$movie->setBackground(rand(0,0xFF),rand(0,0xFF),rand(0,0xFF));
$movie->setRate(12); 

$clip = $movie->importChar("attachmovie.swf", "bev");
$i = $movie->add($clip);
$i->moveTo(100, 100);

// save swf with same name as filename
$swfname = basename(__FILE__,".php");
$movie->save("$swfname.swf",9);

I've made a swf in flash, and created a movieclip called "bev" inside -- and the ming code above works great!!! It produces a swf and it's includes the imported movieclip BUT -- i get an error in the browser that complains apache has crashed.

I dont get it, as ming as created the swf -- but the apache error means i'd never be able to use the code.

Can somone help please?

I've spent hours trying to look this up on google/forums/etc -- there is just no help on the net about ming and importing movieclips.

The tutorial is here:

http://www.gazbming.com/

And the exact link is under the heading "misc" and the link "lib"

Thanks again!!! 🙂

sneakyimp

I'm curious if the notification of apache crashing occurs as a message in your php window or whether you get that in a log file or something.

If it were me, I would try to determine which line is causing the crash. Is this all your code?

itsallgood

sneakyimp -- thanks so much for your reply! I'm glad someone at least knows what im talking about 🙂

I had fears I’d get no response on this one 🙂

I'm running all this locally using WAMP (windows xp), until I get my code working, and then I’m going to get a dedicated server with hostgator.

The error I’m getting appears as a windows dialogue box – and reports:

Title: Apache HTTP Server

Message: Apache HTTP Server has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

There are no error codes or anything.

The apache error log shows this…

This is just after I have started WAMP running –

[Fri Apr 17 20:27:33 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) PHP/5.2.9-1 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Apr 17 20:27:33 2009] [notice] Server built: Dec 10 2008 00:10:06
[Fri Apr 17 20:27:33 2009] [notice] Parent: Created child process 3792
[Fri Apr 17 20:27:33 2009] [notice] Child 3792: Child process is running
[Fri Apr 17 20:27:33 2009] [notice] Child 3792: Acquired the start mutex.
[Fri Apr 17 20:27:33 2009] [notice] Child 3792: Starting 64 worker threads.
[Fri Apr 17 20:27:33 2009] [notice] Child 3792: Starting thread to listen on port 80.

This is just after the crash caused by the ming php code page…

[Fri Apr 17 20:28:57 2009] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 3221225477 -- Restarting.
[Fri Apr 17 20:28:57 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) PHP/5.2.9-1 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Apr 17 20:28:57 2009] [notice] Server built: Dec 10 2008 00:10:06
[Fri Apr 17 20:28:57 2009] [notice] Parent: Created child process 1424
[Fri Apr 17 20:28:57 2009] [notice] Child 1424: Child process is running
[Fri Apr 17 20:28:57 2009] [notice] Child 1424: Acquired the start mutex.
[Fri Apr 17 20:28:57 2009] [notice] Child 1424: Starting 64 worker threads.
[Fri Apr 17 20:28:57 2009] [notice] Child 1424: Starting thread to listen on port 80.

Thanks again for your help sneakyimp – I didn’t even know about apache error log until your post – so I’ve got an idea now that its apache and not MING.

Cheers!

sneakyimp

Is there any chance you have a version of Ming that isn't compatible with WAMP? Or perhaps WAMP or Ming are 32-bit and your OS is 64-bit (or vice versa)? The return of a really high status (3221225477) seems unusual to me but beyond that I can't really tell you what is going wrong.

What you may want to do is comment out the last line of your php script that uses ming and run it. keep commenting out lines and running it over and over until it DOES NOT crash. At that point you will know that the line you had just commented out is the culprit. I can't really help you with that information, but the Ming folks may find it useful for finding the bug. They may also recognize the problem you are having and tell you how to fix it. I have no idea where to find them. Looks like libming has an IRC channel and mailing lists described on their site.

itsallgood

Thanks again sneakyimp,

I've posted same question on flashkit -- hopefully somone on the flash side of ming instead of the php side of it might be able to help.

I "think" it's either:

The class is being called before its ready.

Or MING dosnt work right with php 5 or the version of apache.

I'm still looking for help if anyone else sees this problem though! 🙂

Thanks again.