Inside Macintosh: QuickTime /

Chapter 2 - Movie Toolbox / Movie Toolbox Reference

Functions for Getting and Playing Movies / Movie Posters and Movie Previews

GetMoviePreviewMode

The GetMoviePreviewMode function allows your application to determine whether a movie is in preview mode. If a movie is in preview mode, only the movie's preview can be displayed. Your application can place a movie into and out of preview mode by calling the SetMoviePreviewMode function, which is described in the previous section.

pascal Boolean GetMoviePreviewMode (Movie theMovie);

theMovie

Specifies the movie for this operation. Your application obtains this movie identifier from such functions as NewMovie, NewMovieFromFile, and NewMovieFromHandle (described on page 2-80, page 2-76, and page 2-78, respectively).

DESCRIPTION

The GetMoviePreviewMode function returns a Boolean value. If the movie is in preview mode, the function sets this return value to true. If the movie is in normal playback mode, the function sets this value to false.

ERROR CODES

invalidMovie

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This movie is corrupted or invalid