On Sun, 7 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've been having a great time playing Quicktime movies in MC2.3B1 on
> Win98. Congratulations to Scott and the crew.
>
> Kevin Miller wrote in reply to someone using the old method to play QT
> on Windows:
>
> "You could switch to using the 2.3B1 release. That has a 'player'
> object that plays back Quicktime movies (you can easily convert your
> MIDI to QT)."
>
> Over here I don't have to convert from MIDI -- it plays MIDI files
> directly.
>
> I do have some questions, though. While playing a QT or MIDI file you
> can stop the start the playing with the SPACEBAR or the ENTER key. I
> slow believe that you can stop the playing with a PERIOD. I would like
> to type into a field while listening to MIDI or viewing a QT movie, but
> without the keys dedicated to controlling the player the typing is
> constrained. Would it be possible to keep the music playing and type at
> the same time? Could we map other keys to control the player?
You can always do that with a keyDown or rawKeyDown handler. But the
behavior you're describing is a bug: it was fixed in the Mac engine
but that fix apparently didn't migrate to the Windows engine. The
correct behavior is for it to only intercept the keys when the mouse
cursor is in the movie (this isn't great either, but at least would
make sense to someone who ran into it). QT is very greedy about
grabbing messages, and it's hard to fake it out or make it wait.
> Along the same lines, if a movie and music are playing at the same time
> would it be possible to switch control from one player to another. I've
> been fooling around with adding MIDI soundtracks to some silent movie
> trailers to see how everything works. It seems like control is always on
> the object that starts first, but I haven't done any detailed
> investigations.
>
> There are a lot of possibilities and it seems to work well.
>
> One more thing. Would it be possible to make control-V the PASTE
> accelerator rather than control-Y. On Windows I'm just used to that
> because all the other Windows programs seem to use it. Control-C and
> Control-V work well together on most keyboards.
It should be that way in beta 1. I'm not sure exactly what the
problem is here, but it sounds like the emacsKeyBindings property is
set to true. This is not the first report we've had of this, so it
may be that the Home stack had this preference set to try by default.
You can change this using the "Preferences" dialog.
Regards,
Scott
> Thanks for the great product. I'm really having fun with it.
> Michael Kann, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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