Microsoft KB Archive/190439

LM1: Contents of Readme.txt File

PSS ID Number: Q190439 Article last modified on 07-22-1999

WINDOWS:1.0

WINDOWS

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The information in this article applies to:

 == Microsoft Liquid Motion for Windows 1.0 == 

= SUMMARY =

The Readme.txt file is a text file that contains supplemental information about Microsoft Liquid Motion. The “More Information” section of this article contains the complete text of this file, which is located in the folder in which you installed Liquid Motion. By default this is the Liquid Motion folder.

= MORE INFORMATION =

MICROSOFT LIQUID MOTION (1.00.0529) – Release Notes (C) Copyright Microsoft Corporation, 1998

This document provides complementary or late-breaking information to supplement the Microsoft Liquid Motion documentation.

Prior to installing this build of Liquid Motion, users must uninstall any previous versions of Liquid Motion.

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=================== CONTENTS ================================

Known Issues 1. Installation 2. Animation-Browser Playback 3. Animation Authoring

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=================== 1. INSTALLATION ================================

  When installing LM from behind a corporate firewall that blocks files with unregistered mime-types, the IFTW client will not be able to be installed and the button to launch the installation will not be loaded. To fix this problem, contact your network administrator to register these mime-types: wis application/x-InstallShield rrf application/x-InstallFromTheWeb   When installing LM on a machine with NT4.0, ServicePack3 (SP3) is required. You will need to install SP3 prior to running the Liquid Motion setup. 

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=================== 2. ANIMATION-BROWSER PLAYBACK ================================

NETSCAPE BROWSER PLAYBACK


 * Certain features like rotation of images and text, 3D objects and scene transitions are not supported for playback under Netscape. See the User Guide in Help file that comes with the installed product for more details.

IE3.02 BROWSER PLAYBACK


 * When browsing animations on a local drive (e.g., not over http), some images may not load correctly. Work-around is to put the animation on a Web server and view the files via http://… instead.

IE4.0/4.01 BROWSER PLAYBACK


 * Images created in some graphic applications may contain invalid size information. When used in LM animations, this error may cause LM to stop loading the animation file.

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=================== 3. ANIMATION AUTHORING ================================

FRONTPAGE INTEGRATION


 * Copying an animation from one HTML page to another within the FrontPage Editor can result in the animation not running or previewing incorrectly. This happens when the second page is not in the same directory as the original. The work-around is to make sure that the HTML page and animation files are always in the same directory.
 * Copying an animation and pasting it into the same HTML page in FrontPage causes a script error when previewing the HTML page. To work-around this, republish a copy of the animation under a different name and copy it to the page.

AUDIO


 * In NT 4.0, audio will not play in the browser if an animation using audio is also open in LM. Close LM or the browser to allow the other to play the audio.

3-D SHAPES


 * 3-D .x files contain information that will either allow or dis-allow the ability to add texture. LM cannot apply textures to .X files that do not have texturing capability turned on or have pre-defined coloring or textures already applied to them.

IMAGES


 * You may occasionally experience problems if inserting an image whose original source is not on your local machine (e.g., remote http address, or on a network volume that’s not mapped to a driver letter on your machine). Simply copy the image to your machine, then insert it. (This problem is more likely with JPGs than GIFs.)
 * Inserting an image that is larger than 2000 pixels in either width or height will cause LM to fail under Windows NT4.0. Break up the image into smaller pieces before inserting it to work around this problem.

PUBLISHING ANIMATIONS


 * LM may not be able to Publish via FTP to some servers or through some firewalls. A work-around is to first publish to a local disk, then use another FTP program to upload the “published folder” to your Web-server.

Additional query words: 1.0

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