Mac OSX snow Leopard 10.6.8 - Processing 1.5.1, 2.0.3
Dear P5 team and fans!

i have a lot of questions about video  and video package from processing:

1°) in the reference doc about movie class i cannot understand why, sometimes, the method " void movieEvent(Movie m) { m.read()} is present and sometimes is not present, depends of examples (jump, available, read, play....) - Furthermore i have tried with it and without it and the result seems to be the same...What is for example the difference between this method and someting like ::

void draw(){

if (video.available(){
video.read();}
}  ???

2°) Trying to read .mov videos in 1.5.1 i have often the OutofBoundsArray exception and finally understood that this error happens when the width and height for the video is read like 0 (or1!!!) I have tried a lot of solutions:
- putting  video = new Movie("monfilm.mov") at the very beginning of setUp(), and before "size(1024, 768,P2D)"
- putting in the same setup()
                 video.play();
                 video.jump(0);
                 video.pause();

and calling the play() method in draw()
::::: Results are better... Yet sometimes (with the same video & the same code) i got the ArrayException. How is it possible that it happens AFTER play() jump() and pause()???

3°) i am now working with big videos (.mov, PAL, 500MO); with 1.5.1 i got the ArrayException 1/10. So i decided to try with 2.0.3. The videos are the same. But they are loaded and read very very slowly...I had the same result with 1.5.1 when i used the GSvideo library with GStreamer....

4°) i have tried to export .app: it fails, memory error, probably because the videos are too big...

---- And using exactly the same videos but in director and lingo everything works perfectly, not any error and export as .app. Strange! --- But i cannot use director because in the same work i need the Capture class which is now impossible (the myron Xtra was never updated...)

If somebody can help i would be very happy

derar Dimkir's

excuse me but i have destroyed the topic !!! -
thanks for your answer but it seems to me that you only confirm what i said: the word in front is the secondly displayed, despite of its Z....
i am using 1.5.1
as for 1.5.1 the result with p3D and opengl is not the same.
here below your code but i changed the displaying order and left the same z value and add a third text that i want to put in front of the sphere using its z value: as you can see itis NOT in front; in order to do that i must firstly display the sphere and THEN add the text....

void setup(){
size(600, 600, P3D);//P3D
lights();
}

void draw(){
  background(128);
  noStroke();
textSize(55);

if ( mousePressed ){
    // behind
    //behind!!! // if i want to change that, i have to display
    //this word AFTER the other, but changing the z value has no effect, except to change the size, as normal.
    fill(0, 102, 153, 204);
    text("blueeeeeee", 12, 65, 30);//blue :not forwards despite the z value
   
     fill(255,0,0);//the red one
    text("reddd-behind", 12, 75,10); //red :: not behind despite the z value
}
else{
   fill(0, 102, 153, 204);
    text("blueeeeeee", 12, 65, 30);//blue : behind despite the z value
   
    fill(255,0,0);//the red one
    text("reddd-infront", 12,75,10); // in front despite the z value
   
    fill(0);
    text("redinfrontofsphere", height/2,width/2, 150);
   
 
}


stroke(1);
pushMatrix();
translate(width/2, height/2, 100);
fill(0,255,0);// the green sphere: forwards
sphere(40);
popMatrix();

pushMatrix();
translate(width/2, height/2, -100);
fill(0,0,255); //the blue one:: behind
sphere(100);
popMatrix();



}

size(400, 400, P3D);//P3D
textSize(55);

fill(255,0,0);//the red one
text("word", 12, 75,10); //behind!!! // if i want to change that, i have to display
//this word AFTER the other, but changing the z value has no effect, except to change the size, as normal.
fill(0, 102, 153, 204);
text("word", 12, 45, -30);//blue : forwards
pushMatrix();
translate(width/2, height/2, 100);
fill(0,255,0);// the green sphere: forwards
sphere(40);
popMatrix();

pushMatrix();
translate(width/2, height/2, -100);
fill(0,0,255); //the blue one:: behind
sphere(100);
popMatrix();


//AND NOW with OPENGL, the same stupid code

import processing.opengl.*;


size(400, 400, OPENGL);//P3D
textSize(55);

fill(255,0,0);//the red one
text("word", 12, 75,10); //before!!!
fill(0, 102, 153, 204);
text("word", 12, 45, -30);//blue : behind
pushMatrix();
translate(width/2, height/2, 100);
fill(0,255,0);// the green sphere: forwards
sphere(40);
popMatrix();

pushMatrix();
translate(width/2, height/2, -100);
fill(0,0,255); //the blue one:: behind
sphere(100);
popMatrix();

//question:i dont understand ZAxis for text with P3D

I dont know if it s the good forum to post....

typing "while" in a program
then click "find in reference"= javaexception::

java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at processing.app.macosx.Platform.openURL(Platform.java:141)
    at processing.app.Base.openURL(Base.java:1711)
    at processing.app.Editor.showReference(Editor.java:1041)
    at processing.app.Editor.handleFindReference(Editor.java:1629)
    at processing.mode.java.JavaEditor.access$2(JavaEditor.java:1)
    at processing.mode.java.JavaEditor$9.actionPerformed(JavaEditor.java:132)
    at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2028)
    at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2351)
    at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:387)
    at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:242)
    at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(AbstractButton.java:389)
    at com.apple.laf.ScreenMenuItem.actionPerformed(ScreenMenuItem.java:95)
    at java.awt.MenuItem.processActionEvent(MenuItem.java:650)
    at java.awt.MenuItem.processEvent(MenuItem.java:609)
    at java.awt.MenuComponent.dispatchEventImpl(MenuComponent.java:343)
    at java.awt.MenuComponent.dispatchEvent(MenuComponent.java:331)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:707)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.access$400(EventQueue.java:82)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:663)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:661)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:87)
    at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:98)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:677)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:675)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:87)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:674)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:296)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:211)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:196)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:188)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The file: /Applications/Processing 2.app/Contents/Resources/Java/modes/java/reference/while_.html doesn't exist.
    at java.awt.Desktop.checkFileValidation(Desktop.java:191)
    at java.awt.Desktop.open(Desktop.java:252)
    ... 38 more

is it some way with processing to access by list to all installed voices on a computer, something like a "voices.getall();" function???

thanks