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- From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
- Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
- Subject: Re: Saving Quicktime movies in Hypercard/Supercard stacks?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.135052.12829@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 13:50:52 +1300
- References: <josteisv.103.724050695@dhhalden.no> <1992Dec14.094710.12758@waikato.ac.nz> <josteisv.109.724387080@dhhalden.no>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <josteisv.109.724387080@dhhalden.no>, josteisv@dhhalden.no (JOSTEIN SVENDSEN) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec14.094710.12758@waikato.ac.nz> ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
- >>From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
- >>Subject: Re: Saving Quicktime movies in Hypercard/Supercard stacks?
- >>Date: 14 Dec 92 09:47:10 +1300
- >>In article <josteisv.103.724050695@dhhalden.no>, josteisv@dhhalden.no (JOSTEIN SVENDSEN) writes:
- >>> We are using the QT Movie XCMDs to play Quicktime movies in Hypercard and
- >>> Supercard. But we haven't been able to include the movies in the stack.
- >>
- >>It seems to me you should be able to put "moov" resources into your stack, but
- >>not the actual movie data. I can describe a procedure for you to try if you're
- >>interested, but is it really worth it?
- >
- > Yes, I think so. Most stacks we make should be possible to distribute. But
- > it's difficult when we don't know the path to the films "at playtime" when
- > we make the stacks. Now, the stack must ask the user to locate the films
- > before playing.
-
- Putting movie resources into the stack isn't going to help this, that I can
- see. Even with the "moov" resource in the stack, you'll still have to find
- the movie data file. What kind of error message does QTMovie return if it
- fails to resolve a movie alias?
-
- Actually I was thinking it *might* be possible to append the movie data onto
- the end of the stack itself, but a) that would require a special utility to
- do it and b) you would destroy the movie, and possibly the stack as well, if
- you tried to make any further changes to the stack.
-
- > 1. We have thought about putting "moov" recources into HC stacks, but we
- > don't know how to pass the path to the QT Movie XCMD.
-
- How about using "the long name of this stack"? This returns a string like
-
- stack "My HD:Experimental Folder:Look at this neat stack"
-
- The quick-and-nasty way of getting the pathname without the quotes is to
- use the expression "the value of word 2 of the long name of this stack".
- The main thing I can think of that could cause this expression to fail
- is if your pathname contains quotes in it somewhere.
-
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