You can build your own Quicktime movie player to do this, but you cannot
call into QuickTime or out of it and Trigger this message.
The only way I would know how to make this work is to do you like you
had suggested and run an internal server on the local machine to handle
communications and then QT sends out a URL request to 127.0.0.1.
Matt Veenstra
Tribeworks
> Thanks Matt :)
> Can one app, myBackground App, make this 'mcActionShowMessageString'
> request to another external app, Quicktime, by sending C/System calls
> ?
> I can target QT's PID number from my background app.
>
> I am thinking of designing a plugin for my application's platform,
> NSIS, that does this.
> I am still pretty new to this so any push in the right direction is
> appreciated .
> I am using myBackground app to extend the capabilities of my QT
> projects.
>
>
> g
>
>
> On Aug 10, 2005, at 7:54 AM, Matt Veenstra wrote:
>
>> is there some documentation on how an application requests a
>> notification ?
>> This would be a great help.....
>>
>>
>>
>> Debugstr would be a whole lot simpler than the work-around I have
>> employed for inter-app communication
>>
>> thanks eric :)
>
> Your application gets these from a movie callback procedure. I
> think
> these are called action filters. Or at least that is what we named
> ours.
>
> Then you need to look for mcActionShowMessageString.
>
> Then you can get the data with some code like below.
>
> StringPtr aStringPtr = (StringPtr)theParameters;
>
> Where theParameters is the data passed into the procedure.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Matt Veenstra
> Tribeworks
>
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