Thanks Scott. From this documentation I can see the following supported
properties:
fileName - the movie to play
showController - show the controller bar
alwaysBuffer - draw movie into its own buffer, which allows playing
the movie behind other controls
startTime, endTime - sets a selection
showSelection - allows the user to see and edit a selection
playSelection - play just the selected part of clip
currentTime - get and set the current play time
playRate - change playback speed and direction (set to -1 to reverse)
callbacks - a return-delimited list of "time, message" format callbacks
duration - the duration of a movie, in movie units (see timescale)
timescale - the timescale of the move in units per second
formattedWidth, formattedHeight - the natural size of the movie
paused - get and set the paused state of the movie
There appears to be no support therefore for sprites, QTVR and tracks.
Perhaps you could support calls to QScript or similar in wired movies. This
single feature would allow developers to have intimate control of all QT4
features such as tracks, sprites, transitions, MIDI, samples, and QTVR, as
developers could embed the interactivity into QT4 with a product such as
LiveStage which MetaCard could then call.
Oh yes, and then I could use MetaCard instead of Director -:)
Just a thought.
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>From: Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: QuickTime
>Date: Wed 13 Oct 1999 16:53
>
> On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, David Bovill wrote:
>
>> Is there any documentation that I could read about the forthcoming
>> implementation of QT4 in Metacard. I have a project that I need to complete
>> by Spring 2000 and am considering using Metacard.
>
> At this point all that's available is the list of features, which can
> be found in the file:
> ftp://ftp.metacard.com/MetaCard/2.3/README.2.3A5
>
> Beta 1, due out RSN, will include documentation on these new features
> in the MetaTalk Reference.
> Regards,
> Scott
>
> ********************************************************
> Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com
> MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that...
>
