I have the need to set up a NSMovieView, start a movie playing, and
then at a later point, hide the movie and display some text onscreen
(where the movie player was), then un-hide the movie and resume
playback.
My strategy has been to do this:
// stop the movie
[movieView stop:self];
// move the movieplayer way offscreen (-10000,-10000)
[movieView setFrameOrigin:wayOffscreen];
// set a flag to remind us to display the warning message in
drawRect handler
showWarningMessage = YES;
// request a full window update
[self setNeedsDisplay:YES];
[... wait a while...]
// move the movieplayer back to it's proper location
[movieView setFrameOrigin:mpOrigin];
// start playing
[movieView start:self];
Under 10.3 this works great.
However, under 10.2, it fails in several different ways. First, if
the movie is in fact a Flash track, then when I issue the second
start command, the movie never resumes playback. Second, if the
movie is a regular video track, then although it will resume playback
fine, it never goes offscreen -- my warning message never gets
displayed -- the last frame of the movie stays onscreen.
Is there a better way to do this? I see that under 10.3 you can now
make a NSView 'hidden' but this is not available in 10.2.
How do you tell quicktime "Hey, please start playing that movie again!"
NB: I think there is a general bug in quicktime with respect to
resizing or movie windows. For example, fairly often in QuickTime
Player, or when viewing files in the Finder's Column view, I can get
in a state where the movie is playing, but nothing is happening
onscreen. Only by adjusting the playback size can I get quicktime to
"resync" and actually resume displaying data...
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