Programming With QuickTime Sprites

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Creating a Wired Sprite Movie

The following tasks are performed in order to create the wired sprite movie:

• You create a new movie file with a single sprite track, as explained in "Using the Sprite Media Handler."
• You assign the "no controller" movie controller to the movie.
• You set the sprite track's background color, idle event frequency, and hasActions properties.
• You convert PICT resources to animation codec images with transparency.
• A key frame sample containing six sprites and all of their shared images is created. The sprites are assigned initial property values. A frameLoaded event is created for the key frame.
• You create some override samples which override the matrix and image index properties of the first penguin sprite.

Assigning the No Controller to the Movie

Setting Up the Sprite Track's Properities

Adding Logic to the Penguin

Adding a Series of Actions to the Penguins

Important Things to Note in the Sample Code

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