QuickTime for .NET and COM Developers
暫譯: .NET 與 COM 開發者的 QuickTime

Table Of Contents

About the Author
Preface
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction

Why QuickTime?

Why .NET and COM?

COM
.NET
COM Interop

QuickTime Meets COM and .NET
Who Is This Book For?
What Should I Know Before Reading This Book?
Code Samples
Additional Resources

.NET, Visual Basic, and C#
Windows Scripting
QuickTime


Chapter 2. Getting Started with the QuickTime Control
Introduction
Hello World!
Simple Player—the Basics

Initialization
Opening and Closing Movies
Controlling the Movie
Getting Information about the Movie
Scaling the Movie
Full-Screen Movies
Automatically Sizing the Form
About...

Summary

Chapter 3. Using the QuickTime Control
Introduction
The Apple QuickTime Control
A COM control in .NET

Get the Big Picture

Movies

Loading a Movie
Movie Scaling and Sizing
A Resizable Window for Simple Player
Background and Border
Movie Controller
Auto Play
Control over Full-Screen Display

Initializing QuickTime

Is QuickTime Available?

Probing Deeper
Summary

Chapter 4. The QuickTime Object Model
Introduction
Object Models
The QuickTime Object Model

QTMovie and Its Offspring
QTQuickTime and Its Offspring

Summary

Chapter 5. Diving Deeper
Essential Topics for Serious QuickTime Development
Introduction
QuickTime Events

Registering for QuickTime Events
Handling QuickTime Events
Sample: QuickTime Events Demo

QuickTime Metadata

Annotations

CFObject and Its Uses

CFObject Collection
CFObject Dictionary (CFDictionary)
The Annotations CFDictionary
Complex CFObject Data Structures
Persistent CFObjects

Error Handling
Summary

Chapter 6. Create and Edit
Introduction
The Joy of Cut, Copy, and Paste

Implementing the Edit Menu
Saving the Movie
Creating a New Movie

Movie Builder

Assembling a Movie
Adding an Overlay
Subtitling the Movie

Summary of the Edit Capabilities of QTMovie
Creating a Movie from Images
SMIL the Movie
Creating a Movie Using GDI
Saving a New Movie
Summary

Chapter 7. Browsing the Media
For the Birds

Design Decisions

Implementation

Picking the Components
Building the Bare Bones
Directory Browsing
Media Display
Wiring up the Connections
Adding the QuickTime Control
Media Inspector
A Tooltip

Summary

Chapter 8. Scripting QuickTime Player
Introduction
Scripting QuickTime on the Mac
Windows Scripting Host

COM (Automation) Server

QuickTime Player: a COM Server

Opening and Playing a Movie
The QuickTime Player Object Model
Working with Players
A Movie Builder Script
Batch Export from the Command Line
Event Handlers
Script Droplets
Windows Scripting File (.wsf) format

Summary

Chapter 9. QuickTime Meets Office
QuickTime Development in Microsoft Excel and Access
Introduction
Excel

Adding the QuickTime Control
ActiveX and Macro Security
Adding a Play/Stop Cell
Movie Inspector
Movie Inspector with Annotation Editing
Batch Processing: Movie Annotator

Access

Movie Display
QuickTime Event Handling

Summary

Appendix A QuickTime COM Library Reference
QuickTime Control (QTOControlLib
QuickTime Object Library (QTOLibrary

Appendix B Additional COM Host Environments
QuickTime Control Basics in Other COM Hosts
Visual Basic 6

Getting Started
Adding a Load Button
Adding a Play/Stop Button
Resizing the Form to Fit the Control
Responding to Manual Resize of the Form
Porting Code Samples to Visual Basic 6 or Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)

Delphi

Getting Started
Loading a Movie
Playing the Movie
Handling QuickTime Events

ATL/WTL

Getting Started
Adding the QuickTime Control
Adding a Play/Stop Button
Handling Events from the QuickTime Control
QuickTime Events


Appendix C QuickTime Exporter Types
Exporter Types

Index