On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote:
> Scott Raney wrote:
>
> > How do other multimedia apps handle this? With the brainless
> > "whichever window has the mouse cursor in it gets all the keyboard
> > events" behavior? Can you have multiple movies running in HyperCard
> > or SuperCard or Director and still type in a field in the same window?
> > Do you have to move the mouse cursor over whatever movie you want to
> > use the keyboard to operate?
>
> HyperCard solves this by putting each QT movie in its own window. You
> can show the window as "borderless" and "non-floating" in order to make
> it appear to be part of the card. Clicks on the QT controller work
> normally. Keystrokes are not sent to the movie at all; they all go to
> HyperCard. If the stack author wants QT keystrokes to be enabled, the
> scripts must handle it themselves by trapping keydowns and forwarding
> them to the movie window.
How do you do that, specifically?
> This arrangement allows typing in fields and
> all other user actions while any number of movies play. The location of
> the cursor is unimportant.
A better idea, though it still doesn't solve the problem of allowing
the *user* to control which movie gets the focus and when.
Regards,
Scott
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