QuickTime for Squeak -- Macintosh

Mark Guzdial guzdial at cc.gatech.edu
Wed Sep 20 13:10:24 UTC 2000


WOW!!! I can't believe that I'm watching QuickTime on my Mac in 
Squeak!!!  Way to go, Jim!!

Some experience reports:
- The "QuickTimeMoviePlayer getAndOpen" did nothing at all.  I had to 
open by filename.
- I tried opening an MP3 (I do have QT4.1.2), but nothing happened. 
AIFF worked fine, though.
- I did encounter a crash, or rather, a hang.  I had an AIFF and big 
(6.5M) QT movie open (with video and audio tracks).  I had another 
window on top of the big QT movie. I'm not sure the very last thing I 
did, but Squeak stopped responding, and so did the menu bar. 
Apple-opt-shift-esc killed Squeak and I got control back.

But nevertheless...WOW!  Thanks, Jim!  This really opens up some new 
possibilites for us!

Mark

>*Real* soon now is finally here,
>
>With the advent of gamma release of Squeak 2.8, I've started to prepare my
>FFI link to the QuickTime libraries for release. This changeset provides two
>capabilities, first a simple low level interface to the QuickTime toolbox
>using the new for 2.8 FFI, and secondly a Morphic movie controller widget to
>provide simple movie playback capabilities. The Morphic movie controller
>interface closely simulates the standard Apple movie controller.
>
>I'm releasing a version for the Macintosh:
>
> http://people.we.mediaone.net/trade/quicktim.htm
>
>Now everyone can stop asking, "Does it run on the Mac?" and maybe I can
>sleep at night.
>
>I need to sacrifice a few virgins here, so if someone who is interested with
>a Mac would be so kind as to follow the directions on the page for
>installation and test this to see if it works, I would appreciate it. Please
>send any comments on how to improve my installation directions directly to
>me.
>
>Jim Benson

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