Re: QuickTime OCX?

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From: Douglas B. Stein
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 22:28

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Robert Westlund wrote:
> 
> Has anyone seen, heard about, or written an OCX for playing QuickTime
> movies in Win95?  We're porting a Macintosh application to Visual FoxPro
> for Windows, and need to control the videos from code.  I believe Apple
> supplies a VBX with QuickTime for Windows, so maybe a utility that allows
> running VBX's from Fox would be
> OK, too.  Any info would be helpful.  Thanks.

About a year ago we wrote a 16-bit QuickTime OCX. It ran on Win95 and Windows NT, but assumed a container that could 
deal with 16-bit OCXs. We never wrote a 32-bit version since our products are Win32/Mac cross-platform and there are 
no Mac OCXs (sorry, "ActiveX"), so we moved to a different component technology.

It's pretty trivial to write a 32-bit QT OCX. All you need is Visual C++ 2.2 or higher. There's a ControlWizard for 
writing OCXs. The QuickTime interface is idiotically simple to call and now exists as a 32-bit library for VC++ and 
Borland. You can make the OCX expose whatever properties you need for video control.

Hope this helps,

Doug

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Doug Stein
Chief Propellerhead
Addison Wesley Interactive
Email: mailto:dougst@aw.com
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