Template generator with Flash EOL

cukurs · February 24, 2021, 10:00am

Hi,

Is it still possible to generate flash template?
I had to reinstall my workstation, but I found and downloaded Animate CC 2018/2019 versions and installed the template generator as usual. I tried to generate one of my existing templates but it doesn’t play, but my old version works fine.

CCG: 2.1.0
Error:
[2021-02-24 08:55:11.602] [9572] [error] flash-player[cg20.fth.1080p6000|1920x1080] [error] @Add@1@TypeError: Error #1009@
[2021-02-24 08:55:11.603] [9572] [error] flash-player[cg20.fth.1080p6000|1920x1080] [error] @Play@1@ReferenceError: No template queued on layer 1@

didikunz · February 24, 2021, 10:09am

Please install Flash.ocx. Find instructions in this topic or here.

cukurs · February 24, 2021, 10:31am

Just to make sure, I went true these steps.

Installed FlashInstall
Downloaded CasparCG.Server-2.0.7.1-flash-eol-hotfix
FlashCfgWriter game access to templates folder

Tested default template - work
Tested my old generated template - work
Tested my new generated template(made after steps above) , but no changes from old times - doesn’t work
Output:

+Scanning elements...

 + >Adding a caspar component instance f14:CasparTextField

 +Writing template data: originalWidth=1920 originalHeight=660 originalFramerate=60 stopOnFirstFrame=false

 +Template metadata:
 <template version="2.0.0" authorName="name" authorEmail="" templateInfo="" originalWidth="1920" originalHeight="660" originalFrameRate="60" >
<components><component name="CasparTextField"><property name="text" type="string" info="String data" /></component></components>
<keyframes><keyframe name='out' /></keyframes>
<instances><instance name="f1" type="CasparTextField" /><instance name="f4" type="CasparTextField" /><instance name="f7" type="CasparTextField" /><instance name="f10" type="CasparTextField" /><instance name="f13" type="CasparTextField" /><instance name="f0" type="CasparTextField" /><instance name="f3" type="CasparTextField" /><instance name="f6" type="CasparTextField" /><instance name="f9" type="CasparTextField" /><instance name="f12" type="CasparTextField" /><instance name="f2" type="CasparTextField" /><instance name="f8" type="CasparTextField" /><instance name="f5" type="CasparTextField" /><instance name="f11" type="CasparTextField" /><instance name="f14" type="CasparTextField" /></instances>
<parameters></parameters>
 </template>
-----------------------------------------------------
***Info***
The CasparCG flash template was successfully created! You can find the .ft file in:

CCG log:

[2021-02-24 12:19:38.738] [8208]  [info]    Received message from 127.0.0.1: CG 1-20 ADD 1 "test/WINNER LIST V2 - GREEK NO-EURO" 1 "<templateData></templateData>"\r\n
[2021-02-24 12:19:38.739] [12840] [info]    flash[cg20.fth.pal|5000] Invoking add-command: <invoke name="Add" returntype="xml"><arguments><number>1</number><string>TEST/TESTv2.ft</string><true/><string></string><string><![CDATA[ <templateData></templateData>]]></string></arguments></invoke>
[2021-02-24 12:19:38.826] [13068] [debug]   flash-player[cg20.fth.pal|1024x576] [command]      <invoke name="OnCommand" returntype="xml"><arguments><string>Command recieved @GetInfo@?@</string></arguments></invoke>
[2021-02-24 12:19:38.892] [13068] [info]    flash-player[cg20.fth.pal|1024x576] Initialized.
[2021-02-24 12:19:38.895] [13068] [debug]   flash-player[cg20.fth.pal|1024x576] [command]      <invoke name="OnCommand" returntype="xml"><arguments><string>Command recieved @Add@1@</string></arguments></invoke>
[2021-02-24 12:19:38.950] [13068] [error]   flash-player[cg20.fth.pal|1024x576] [error]        <invoke name="OnError" returntype="xml"><arguments><string>@Add@1@TypeError: Error #1009@</string></arguments></invoke>
[2021-02-24 12:19:38.953] [13068] [error]   flash-player[cg20.fth.pal|1024x576] [error]        <invoke name="OnError" returntype="xml"><arguments><string>@Play@1@ReferenceError: No template queued on layer 1@</string></arguments></invoke>

didikunz · February 24, 2021, 10:55am

The second last line says TypeError: Error #1009@ I guess there is something wrong in the code of the template.

cukurs · February 24, 2021, 10:59am

If your referring to Actions code I only have it on two frames with value “stop();”
And one label for output “out”

didikunz · February 24, 2021, 11:02am

The label should be called “outro” or “Outro”. I don’t remember which one is correct.

cukurs · February 24, 2021, 11:31am

removed label and stop(); it does same thing, I think its not possible to generate file now after flash changes

didikunz · February 24, 2021, 11:34am

I still do that every day Can you try with a .fla file of an old template, to be sure, that the error is not in the new template?

cukurs · February 24, 2021, 11:35am

it is old template, but generated on fresh PC

didikunz · February 24, 2021, 11:42am

Hmm, that’s bad. - Aha: Can you install an older version of Flash Pro? I still use Flash Pro CC 2015, as I had troubles with the template generator using Animate. It should be possible somehow to download older versions, if you have the CC subscription. I don’t remember how to do that, but Google will know…

cukurs · February 24, 2021, 11:44am

I have full subscription, I let you know how it goes, thanks for ideas.

cukurs · February 24, 2021, 5:08pm

Installing Flash pro didnt solve anything, but I found something weird.

If I create a new empty template, I have the same issue, where it’s not loaded
If I open the example file and re-generate it everything is fine
If i add my content there, also everything works

I will try to fully understand why this is the case, so far I don’t see any difference between the example file and a brand new file.

didikunz · February 24, 2021, 5:55pm

Check this, it’s the settings dialog (pic is from a German version):

cukurs · February 25, 2021, 7:52am

Look same to me

Edit:
Ended up recreating everything in example template and everything works. As this is my last Flash project I don’t know if ill be looking into this issue, hopefully move it soon to HTML5.
I checked all settings and adjusted differences but nothing helped, if someone plans to keep using Flash templates for while I suggest looking into trying to replicated your setup on fresh installed windows.