Re: Frustration with Java/Cocoa/Quicktime--are simple things really this hard to do?

• Subject: Re: Frustration with Java/Cocoa/Quicktime--are simple things really this hard to do?
• From: Dmitry Markman <email@hidden>
• Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 17:44:14 -0400

I'm trying to do what I think should be a very simple thing--pull out the first frame of a movie file using Java and Quicktime, scale it to a thumbnail, and set it as the icon of that file.

I expected the hard part to be finding the calls necessary to get the image, scale it, and set a file icon. In fact, I seem to have identified necessary calls (I don't know if they're actually correct, but by their descriptions they seem to be :-) ). The real difficulty lies in the fact that I'm dealing with three different representations of images--PICT, NSImage, and Java images--and I cannot figure out how to translate between these formats. And of course, I can't find any documentation that refers to this sort of thing. It's this last point that really frustrates me, and if someone can point to any decent documentation concerning this, I'd be most grateful.

Thanks,
Ken
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