Re: QuickTime for Cocoa / QuickTimeKit (was What's up with MiscKit?)
Re: QuickTime for Cocoa / QuickTimeKit (was What's up with MiscKit?)
- Subject: Re: QuickTime for Cocoa / QuickTimeKit (was What's up with MiscKit?)
- From: Ken Tabb <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 13:04:16 +0000
On Wednesday, October 31, 2001, at 08:59 pm, Chris Gehlker wrote:
I have version 0.1 of a QuickTime for Cocoa project working and I would
like
to contribute it somewhere. Right now it's only a View class and a video
/still transcoding category. I plan to extend it with categories to add
sprite animation, sound transcoding, etc. My ultimate goal is to allow
folks
to access all the features of QT without mucking about in Carbon. I
want to
port at least all of QTUtilities.c People might find it useful in it's
current form and I could certainly benefit from comments/help.
So my question is whether MiscKit is still viable or is there another
site
that's more active?
Hey Chris,
sell it to Apple... you get money, your framework gets publicity from
the best site (people would go first to Apple's site to see if something
existed... unless they've already "exhausted" the video topic on the
Cocoa site), and Apple get to have a more complete framework without a
gaping hole which makes the framework reliant on Carbon and difficult to
learn (i.e. you have to learn both Cocoa and Carbon if you want to do
QuickTime stuff in Cocoa (besides displaying a movie in a window with a
controller)).
For whatever reason, Apple is incapable of producing such a useful
framework, whether that's through lack of time, or because they're
prioritising Carbon, or the thought that Cocoa and QuickTime should
never directly integrate... they never seem to want to comment on this
matter, and you've done something they can't, from which everyone could
benefit. Give them first dibs on the framework, maybe that way they'll
have a way of getting all their technologies to work together 8^)
I'd certainly approach them with this if I were you.
Good luck!
Ken
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