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QuickTime 4 API Documentation

QuickTime for Java

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Interacting With Java Layout Managers

QuickTime media content is often sensitive to the size and proportions of screen space that it uses--for instance, a movie that is made to display at 320 x 240 pixels can look bad or have serious performance repercussions if drawn at 600 x 60 pixels on the screen.

The QTCanvas provides flags for controlling how the Java layout managers allocate space to it ( resizeFlags ) and where, within that space, the QTCanvas client actually draws ( alignmentFlags ). You can also set the minimum, preferred, and maximum sizes of the QTCanvas , as with any other java.awt.Component . The preferred size is automatically set for you as the initial size of the QTCanvas client if your application does not specifically set the preferred size itself.


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