Quicktime Chapter Tracks

[Trevor DeVore]

On 7/5/03 Richard Gaskin wrote

>Trevor DeVore wrote:
>
>> I would really like to see additions to QT support in Rev.  The primary reason
>> I purchased Rev was to create applications that rely heavily on QuickTime and
>> Databases.  I can do a lot of great stuff with it's current support but if
>> additional support were added for things like intermovie communication,
>> chapter tracks and the ApplicationliveNumberAndString message then it would
>> open up new possibilities in some cases and be real time savers in others.
>
>As a workaround in the meantime you could use SMIL (QT 4. of later) or 3GPP
>(new in QT 6.3) to create your own synch tracks for text.

My current project that I am working on doesn't use the synching so I haven't been too concerned about that yet.  The two features I would love to see supported are intermovie communication and ApplicationNumberAndString messages.  Right now I am sending messages to Revolution from QT using DebugStr and extracting action commands from that.  ApplicationNumberAndString would be cleaner as you can pass two parameters (a number and a string) to the host app (Revolution) from your QT movie.  Intermovie communication would be very useful for me as well as you can could have multiple QT movies within a Rev app talking and reacting to each other without any code in Rev.  I have some VR stuff that would benefit from that (having interactive maps made with Flash or Wired Sprites reacting to movements in the QTVR).

Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com