Buttons within Quicktime Movies

[Jonathan Kotthoff]

Hello all:

I have brought this up before...but, thought I would give it one more 
try...I produce a lot of multimedia applications/kiosks that compete with 
what alot of the market provides as Director of Flash applications...The DB 
and Web integration that Revolution allows me, gives my applications a real 
backend advantage to these apps...but the feature that kills me everyday is 
my inability to create buttons on top of or withing QuickTime 
applications...I realize that I can create Sprites within QT movies and have 
done this in the past, but this requires me resorting to C++ or going into 
LiveStage Pro...Which is not the ideal...I and many others could knock the 
competition out of the water and thus create more demand for this our 
beloved product, if I could just have the ability to create buttons 
(invisible or not) on top of or within QT movies...

For the record I do realize that Revs inability to do this is tied to its 
utilization of the QT library and how QT dislplays itself within the OS 
environment...but part of me things that some creative engineering could 
overcome this problem...for example, a Hook installed at the os level could 
caprture all clicks within a QT window space and pass them to Rev...this 
could be installed on Mac OS X or Windows as a rev library...

Anyone want to chime in on there agreement, disagreement, ideas?

Thanks,
Jonathan Kotthoff
Director of Media & Technology
Menlo Park Concepts