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- From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: QuickTime, Director, Closing Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.173941.10737@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 17:39:41 +1200
- References: <37864@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <37864@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, sakelley@euclid.ucsd.edu (Scott Kelley) writes:
- > I'm working on a large multimedia project with MacroMind Director. Since
- > Director's QuickTime support leaves something to be desired (it's buggy)
-
- Uh-oh. And here I was looking forward to my 3.1 upgrade... :-{
-
- > My XObject is very simple: It gets two numbers and a string as
- > parameters, opens the movie filename found in the string, and plays it
- > with the upper left corner in the coordinates specified. So far so good.
- > Problem: When I call CloseWindow to dispose of the window after I've
- > played the movie, QuickDraw erases the region that had the movie in it,
- > and puts a white rectangle there instead.
-
- Did you actually open your own window, rather than playing the movie in
- Director's stage window? Does the latter not work? It's just that I've seen
- an example Director movie which did exactly this, using the Apple/Claris
- QTMovie external. Even worked with Director 2.0.1, too.
-
- This is a problem because it
- > presents the user with an unexplained flash in the movie window. (From
- > director I'll use a single frame of the movie as a castmember in
- > Director, and when the user clicks on it, I'll play the movie on top of
- > it. When the movie stops, I want it to CLEANLY go back to the first
- > frame.
-
- If you really have to open your own window, I guess one thing to try is
- save the bits behind it, and restore them after closing the window. Director
- will still get an update event and redraw that area, but this is probably
- not worth worrying about.
-
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