Waking computer from sleep, and looping movies
Waking computer from sleep, and looping movies
- Subject: Waking computer from sleep, and looping movies
- From: Mike Margolis <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 01:50:13 -0700
Hey everyone,
I have 2 questions...
One) I am writing an alarm clock application where it would be very useful
to be able to control when the computer will wake from sleep. A few years
back, I tried to do this in ToolBox, but didn't have much success. Now, I'
m writing a whole new application and it would be great if I could do this.
.. I scoured the Cocoa documentation and could not find any way to do this
with Cocoa, and then I looked through Carbon, because I remembered the classic
toolbox had the ability to do this. I tried using SetWakeupTimer and SetWUTime,
both in Power.h - and discovered they both did nothing. I checked what PMFeatures
returns, and found it returns 0. Mac OS X doesn't currently have a System
Preference to control the wakeup time of the computer from sleep or startup
from when the computer is powered off... does this mean the Power Manager
in OS X doesn't support this yet? I'm running 10.1 and have the newest documentation,
am I missing something?
Two) I am trying to have an NSMovie loop, but no matter what I do it doesn'
t seem to work. I create an NSMovieView, insert the movie in question, and
then say [theMovieView setLoopMode:NSQTMovieLoopingPlayback]; This
doesn't seem to work, as the movie ends and doesn't repeat. I tried calling
this before i added the movie, after i added the movie, even while the movie
was playing... it never seems to make the movie loop. I can set the volume,
set the rate, i can do everything but set the looping mode. I then tried
to get a message when the movie ended... so i could manually start the movie
again, but I could not find any such notifications. Ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Mike Margolis