QT Movies playing roughly

[Terry Judd]

On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 04:20 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 04:44:32 -0800 (PST) Jan Schenkel 
> <janschenkel at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Graham,
>>
>> A few things spring to mind:
>> - Is it possible that another object overlaps the
>> player ?
>> - What's the setting of the 'alwaysBuffer' property of
>> the player and the stack ?
>>
>> Jan Schenkel.
>
> Hi Jan
>
> Thanks for the interest. The alwaysBuffer of the mainstack, the 
> substack in question and the player objects are all set to true. I'm 
> not sure what you mean by 'overlap', but naturally as the user drags 
> the player object it passes across a number of other objects - usually 
> rectangular graphics without scripts in them. The players never enter 
> each other's space, as it were, although they are sometimes asked to 
> play simultaneously (this doesn't seem to be a problem in itself).

And herein lies your problem - trying to drag 'active' player objects 
around the screen is bound to cause problems even on very fast systems. 
Hate to say it but this sort of task would probably be better solved 
using either Director or Flash without reference to QT.

Cheers,

Terry...
>
> Do underlying objects get messages saying the drag/grab is taking 
> place? If so, I could try to investigate these.
>
> So far then, no real answer - but thanks again.
>
> Graham
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