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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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On Wed, 10 Apr 1996 12:49:27 -0500, westlund@access.texas.gov (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.

I have download the latest QuickTime tools from Apple and installed
them. It looks like the OCX is installed and usable directly in
your compiler. It also comes as a VBX. I have tested it in a junk
application and adding the QT VBX opens its property sheet.
I didn't explore any further, but it looks like you can use it
free of charge.


Sincerely,
Steve Jordi                
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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.
> 
> Rob
> 
> --
> Robert Westlund
> Texas SOICC
> westlund@access.texas.gov
> http://www.soicc.capnet.state.tx.us

Try VideoPlay/OCX from Media Architects Inc.  1-503-639-2505.   I have never used 
it but I have heard of it.

Marek