Chris Adamson wrote:
> QTJ doesn't have a future because most of what it's based on doesn't
> have a future. quicktime.qd and all the places you use QDGraphics is
> based on QuickDraw, which is already deprecated. The rest of it is
> based on the straight-C QuickTime API, which is not being updated for
> 64-bit. If you read John Siracusa's Leopard review in Ars Technica,
Ah, now that's helpful information. I was aware Apple was making major
changes, mainly Carbon to Cocoa, but frankly, that didn't seem relevant to
me as a Java developer. I wasn't completely aware of QuickTimes connection
to it. I guess I should have connected the dots since I do use the QTJ API
docs.
> And if I have to bet on the unpredictable future direction of computer
> companies, I'll take Apple and their half-way-interesting QTKit, even if
> it means switching to Cocoa and Obj-C, than Sun's non-vision,
> non-passion, and non-competence for multimedia, any day of the week.
So I'm guessing you're not putting much stock in Sun's Java Media Component
announcement.
> But what about cross-platform multimedia, you might ask? I think it's
> obvious that Flash won that battle a long time ago, and there isn't
> likely to be any serious challenge to its dominance for years. That's
> why I'm reading up on Flash Video too. Like it or not, they've already
> won. Let's stop pretending that Java is viable in this field and get in
> on the development gigs that are out there for Flash.
The irony for me is that I do create cross-platform *desktop* multimedia
applications in Java. That's the reason I stuck with JMF for so long. My
time with QTJ has been more or less, an extensive evaluation (just over a
year). And I'm not really sold on Flex. But if JMC doesn't work out,
write once/run anywhere will turn into can't write at all anywhere. At
least for java multimedia.
Anyone know of a good Objective-C tutorial? Preferably one that targets
developers whose first language was Java (I know nothing of pointers).
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