Programming With QuickTime Sprites

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Constant descriptions

kActionMovieSetVolume

Supported Flags: IsDelta , WrapsAround Param1: [short volume] Default Min: 0, Default Max: 255

Sets the movie's volume level.

kActionMovieSetRate

Supported Flags: IsDelta , WrapsAround Param1: [Fixed rate] Default Min: minFixed , Default Max: maxFixed

Sets the movie's playback rate. A rate of 1 means play back at normal speed. A rate of two means play back at double speed. A rate of 0 means stop. Negative rates make the movie play backwards. Rates may be fractional.

kActionMovieSetLoopingFlags

Supported Flags: none Param1: [long loopingFlags]

Sets the looping mode of movie playback. Zero means no looping. Setting the loopTimeBase flag means that the movie will loop; additionally setting the palindromeLoopTimeBase flag causes the movie to loop in palindrome fashion, meaning that once it reaches the end, it goes backwards until reaching the beginning, at which point it will go forward again. Note that the flags loopTimeBase and palindromeLoopTimeBase are OR-combined together.

kActionMovieGoToTime

Supported Flags: none Param1: [TimeValue time]

Sets the movie's current time. This value is expressed in the movie's timescale.

kActionMovieGoToTimeByName

Supported Flags: none Param1: [Str255 timeName]

Sets the movie's current time to the one in the movie corresponding to the chapter named timeName .

kActionMovieGoToBeginning

Supported Flags: none No Params

Sets the time to the beginning of the movie.

kActionMovieGoToEnd

Supported Flags: none No Params

Sets the time to the end of the movie.

kActionMovieStepForward

Supported Flags: none No Params

Causes the movie to step forward in the same fashion as pressing the step forward button in the movie controller.

kActionMovieStepBackward

Supported Flags: none No Params

Causes the Movie to step backward in the same fashion as pressing the step backward button in the movie controller.

kActionMovieSetSelection

Supported Flags: none Param1: [TimeValue startTime] Param2: [TimeValue endTime]

Sets the movie's selection to be the time range specified by the startTime and endTime time values.

kActionMovieSetSelectionByName

Supported Flags: none Param1: [Str255 startTimeName] Param2: [Str255 endTimeName]

Sets the movie's selection to be the time range specified by the startTimeName and endTimeName chapter names.

kActionMoviePlaySelection

Supported Flags: IsToggle Param1 : [ Boolean selectionOnly ]

When set to true , the movie plays only the current movie selection. The movie selection may be set using kActionMovieSetSelection or kActionMovieSetSelectionByName .

kActionMovieSetLanguage

Supported Flags: none Param1: [ long language ]

Sets the movie's current language. This will cause the Tracks associated with that language to be enabled and Track's associated with other languages to be disabled.