Spacey players

[Trevor DeVore]

On Mar 8, 2004, at 11:53 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Trevor DeVore wrote:
>
>> On Mar 8, 2004, at 9:57 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
>>> It appears that even with traversalOn set to false, QT players 
>>> respond to
>>> the press of the spacebar (at least on OSX).  Might there be some 
>>> way to
>>> disable this?
>>>
>>> I've tried employing a keyDown handler in the stack, card, and front 
>>> scripts
>>> to intercept the spacebar press, none of which prevents the player 
>>> from
>>> responding to the spacebar.  Is this control too deep within QT to
>>> intercept?
>> I've seen this behavior too.  QT movies in Rev will pick up keyboard 
>> events even when my Rev app isn't in front.  I *think* there is a QT 
>> API call which disables keyboard control of a Movie Controller which 
>> is what a player object in Revolution is when it loads a QT movie.
>> If I can find the call I could add it to the QT external.
>
> It would be even more useful in the engine.  Is this Bugzilla'd?

Agreed, but waiting for something to get in the engine usually takes a 
while.  Externals are available right away.  I have a few QT 
enhancements sitting in bugzilla waiting to get looked at but they are 
probably pretty low on the list of things to get done.

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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com