Hollywood forums

vox wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2026 1:04 pm Great for MorphZone, but is there a PDF?

No, I think wiki pages serve better for this kind of content.

If making a plugin, a C/C++ based source would be more efficient and easier to port as a plugin.

However, I'm wondering if it's possible to execute a program associated with a PDF document in MorphOS the same way it works for me on MacOS. Execute document.pdf opens the program with the loaded document on the Mac, but not on MorphOS. On MorphOS you should use the Open shell command. It opens fi...

Hi, I have two different tables and I want to save both on an unique file via writetable using the default option. They are written correctly while the reading is impossible receiving an error message. Saving the two tables, each one in a different file, they are correctly read. There is a way to h...

There probably isn't a direct command for it, but you can do a small function yourself: Function p_WhichMusicIsPlaying() ; Returns the ID of a music object that is playing currently. ; If no music is playing, then it returns Nil. Local t, c = GetObjects(#MUSIC) For Local i = 0 To c - 1 If IsMusicPla...

NathanH wrote: ↑Sat Feb 14, 2026 11:53 pm I was just going to start something similar then saw this. Any progress?

I think it's good enough for my needs currently, so no progress

I'd be interested to know how you embedded the binary and ran it from within Hollywood. Thanks. Simply just linking the external program as a file in Hollywood executable with the @FILE preprocessor. And then at the program startup I write the file to a temporary location (which I clean at exit the...

I think the situation is still that these Hollywood things query for the filesize and thus won't work with endless streams.

I don't know if it's been left out by purpose or by accident, but the direct download link works still...

Where do you have the plugin installed? If it's in the same dir with the executable, then it should work. But there was a change in Hollywood 11 that global plugins (in libs:hollywood) don't get loaded anymore unless you define GlobalPlugins=True in the @OPTIONS table.