On Oct 10, 2006, at 11:21 AM, GregSmith wrote:
Trevor:
Ideally, what I would like to make happen, but I don't think
Revolution
provides the tools to do this, is to provide links inside one
QuickTime
movie, while it is running, that will jump to a specific place in
another
movie, and provide a link back to the jumping off point. This is
probably
only doable with a product like LiveStage Pro. But, if something
outside
the movie, Revolution-wise, could do the same thing, I'd settle for
that.
You have a couple of different options here. The EnhancedQT
external, which provides additional QT functionality in Rev, might be
useful to you. You can get it here <http://bluemangolearning.com/
developer/revolution/> and it is free.
It is possible to add Wired Sprites to your movies using LiveStage
and program text to be sent to the hosting application (Revolution).
Rev player objects (what you play QT movies in) receive the
QTDebugStr message which you can send form LiveStage using DebugStr.
Using the EQT external you can also get these messages sent to a
player object:
QTApplicationNumberAndString pNumber, pString
QTFSCommand pCommand, pArgument
QTStatusMsg pType, pMsg (pType can be "streaming","error" or "urllink")
QTMovieLoadState pState (see qtGetMovieLoadState documentation for
possible values of pState)
QTHotSpotEnter pHotSpotID
QTHotSpotLeave pHotSpotID
I've used QTApplicationNumberAndString in the past since I can send
two parameters as opposed to one. Either way works since parsing
text in Rev is such a snap.
So you could have a button that when clicked sent a command using
DebugStr() that looked like this:
Command=GoToVideo
Name=VideName.mov
You could set up all sorts of commands similar to the above that Rev
would process and use to navigate to other moveis.
Another option is to include the instructions in text tracks. EQT
has the qtRegisterTextSampleCallback command which allows you to
specify a text track and a msg to be sent each time a new sample in
the text track is loaded. You could include instructions in the text
tracks that would tell Rev to display a navigation button and
instruct the button where to navigate to. I would prefer this option
since you could customize the buttons and user experience in Rev
which is easier to author in than LiveStage Pro.
In the end, the basic idea is to come up with a system of commands
that could instruct Rev what to do based on instructions coming from
the movie being played.
--
Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Learning Systems - www.bluemangolearning.com
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