Re: NSMovieView bug ?
Re: NSMovieView bug ?
- Subject: Re: NSMovieView bug ?
- From: Chris Gehlker <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:47:49 -0700
On 11/13/01 11:20 AM, "Stiphane Sudre" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On mardi, novembre 13, 2001, at 05:11 , Robert Miller wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I've noticed something strange with the NSMovieView (since OS X.1)
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> and am wondering if it is a bug. I am using NSMovieView and allocate one
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> programatically, assign an NSMovie to it, and then place it into a
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> superview. The movie seems to start to play automatically once the view
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> is displayed, even if I call the stop: method for NSMovieView. during my
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> initialization process. This behavior did not exist in 10.0.4. Has
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> anyone else seen this ? Is there a work around ?
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I'm not seeing it when embedding a NSMovieView within a ScreenSaver View.
I was seeing it. I thought it had something to do with the Autoplay
attribute being set for the movie. I even pontificated about the timing of
PreRollMovie() and PrePreRollMovie() and developed a theory. I noticed that
some old Carbon code showed the problem movies dimmed out in the open dialog
box even when they had the right type and creator.
I moved the problem movies to my MOS 9 disk and went back to 9 thinking I
could chase down the problem. But In doing that the problem movies became
good movies that didn't autoplay. Furthermore, the original movies on my OSX
disk were somehow magically cured just by being the source of a Finder copy.
Frustrated, I went back to the original sites and DL the problem movies
again. They behaved perfectly in both my Cocoa and Carbon programs.
Conclusions:
There was a class of problem movies that have been fixed by the site
maintainers.
Or
Something has changed on my machine. I upgraded Stuffit to 6.5.1 in the
meantime and the movies were arched as .tgz
Or
Something else.
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