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Re: Quicktime for Java? Alive or Dead?



 Is there an example application that uses QT4J that one can download and explore...



Thanks,
Jamie


On Friday, March 31, 2006, at 10:42AM, Jared <email@hidden> wrote:

>hi Roby,
>
>    I would argue that QT4J is very much alive. It's installed by default on Mac
>OS X, and with the release of Quicktime 7 for Windows, QT4J is installed by
>default (not the case in previous releases) and the class archive (QTJava.zip)
>is actually placed in the system classpath by the Quicktime installer.
>
>    so now you can rest easy knowing that your QT4J app will start smoothly on a
>Windows PC if they have Quicktime 7 installed.
>
>    for those of us that fought with Windows installs pre-QT7, this is a huge
>win.
>
>cheers,
>
>- Jared
>
>-- 
>Happiness is a warm laptop.
>
>
>Quoting Jerry <email@hidden>:
>
>> 
>> On 31 Mar 2006, at 17:49, Roby Sherman wrote:
>> 
>> > I keep getting conflicting information as to whether Quicktime for  
>> > Java is alive or dead. I want to use Quicktime in a Java 1.4  
>> > application I'm working on, but don't want to waste my time if the  
>> > APIs are on the way out. I can't seem to find a document on Apple's  
>> > site that tells me one way or the other. Can anyone confirm?
>> 
>> It's alive, but not as we know it. Apple suddenly broke everything by  
>> removing a load of APIs and providing a new set to replace them. This  
>> was of no consolation to me when I woke up one morning and found that  
>> my QuickTime applications no longer worked (they still don't work - I  
>> never found out how to replace the removed APIs). The sample code is  
>> almost entirely for the old API - practically every sample is marked  
>> as deprecated, and the documentation is hard to find. While you can  
>> write for QuickTime for Java and what's available seems to work OK,  
>> I'd be nervous about it suddenly breaking again.
>> 
>> Jerry
>> 
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References: 
 >Quicktime for Java? Alive or Dead? (From: Roby Sherman <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Quicktime for Java? Alive or Dead? (From: Jerry <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Quicktime for Java? Alive or Dead? (From: Jared <email@hidden>)



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