MetaCard 2.5 alpha 8

[Simon Lord]

Ken, would it be possible to get a sample stack from you?  In a past 
life I wrote a SuperCard stack that would display a movie in a card 
with a controller, the controller would have handles at either end 
(custom made SC controller).  The first controller represented the 
00:00:00 timecode while the end controller represented the end of the 
movie's timecode, ie 00:03:57

Moving these timecodes to the right or left allowed for the user to 
play just the selection *in-between* the timecodes.  I have included a 
screenshot of that SC project below, hope that helps.

Having said all this, I'm trying to find some samples in the MetaCard 
universe that would allow me to shave a few weeks off my development if 
I could find a stack which had a few basic samples such as:

(1) How to get the movie length in time (so I can make set timecodes 
again)
(2) How to play from timecode to timecode (if possible, maybe an 
alternative?)

That's it really, maybe a few extras but it's late and I'm barely awake 
at this point in the email.  In essence, I'm hoping for a *rosseta* MC 
stack that will instantly show me all the movie controls/handles MC can 
perform (aside from the obvious like, play, stop etc).  From the email 
below, I take it you probably have worked out many of the issues I'm 
looking to develop for a small internal project.

Thanks.

PS: SuperCard 2.5 works fine in Classic.  Had a bug where it would 
crash if you selected the Finder, but since it does not exist in 
Classic, it runs fine. Cool, cause I liked SuperEdit very much.

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On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 10:12 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

> Scott,
>
> Any chance of getting the "posterTime" property for player objects 
> (which
> returns the timepoint in the movie where the poster frame was defined)
> working for 2.5?
>
> Additionally we'd also spoken about a couple of other items:
>
> (1) the ability to grab a frame from a QT movie as image data so it 
> could be
> stuck into an image object using the QT API call "GetMoviePICT", and
>
> (2) an extension of the "prepare" command that would force MC to 
> render a
> player object into its buffer before it was displayed so that one 
> could have
> a hidden player object, set its currentTime to a specified time, and 
> then
> show it, optionally with visual effects.
>
> I'm assuming the last two aren't in the works for 2.5, but I just 
> wanted to
> remind you of them in the event that there was still some fleshing out 
> to do
> on them.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Raney" <raney at metacard.com>
> To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 8:19 PM
> Subject: MetaCard 2.5 alpha 8
>
>
>> MetaCard 2.5 alpha-test 8 is now available in the directory:
>> ftp://ftp.metacard.com/MetaCard/2.5/
>>
>> See the file README.2.5 in that directory for the list of new
>> features.  The new debugging features of the engine are complete in
>> this release, though the UI still needs a little tweaking.  Now would
>> be a good time to take it for a spin to get your must-have features in
>> for the first beta-test release, due up next.
>>   Regards,
>>     Scott
>>
>> ********************************************************
>> Scott Raney  raney at metacard.com  http://www.metacard.com
>> MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that...
>>
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Sincerely,
Simon