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At the heart of Apple's hugely popular iLife software suite-iMovie, iPhoto, iDVD, GarageBand, and iTunes-is QuickTime, the powerful media engine that drives elegant applications for managing movies, images, and audio files. The enduring success of QuickTime is in no small part attributable to its component architecture. This key feature has allowed it to embrace emerging digital media technologies and standards one by one as they have appeared over the 12 or so years since its launch. None of the competing technologies even comes close, let alone on both Mac OS X and Windows.
QuickTime for .NET and COM Developers is the first guide to QuickTime for developers using popular RAD tools such a Visual Basic .NET, C#, and Visual Basic 6. A general introduction to QuickTime is followed by a detailed explanation of the QuickTime architecture from a.NET and COM perspective, liberally accompanied by code snippets. A number of implementation examples illustrate key QuickTime features, ranging from a simple movie player to a sophisticated interactive application. Also covered is QuickTime scripting in both QuickTime Player (using Windows Scripting) and in Microsoft Office applications (using VBA). Brief guides to developing with QuickTime in Delphi and ATL/WTL are also included.
Part of the official Quicktime Developer Series , publishing the finest books on QuickTime in cooperation with Apple.
* The first book on QuickTime for .NET and COM application and scripting developers
* Written by one of the architects of Apple's QuickTime ActiveX/COM control
* Offers numerous sample applications and code examples
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| Title of Computers eBook: QuickTime for .NET and COM Developers | |
| Release Date: 01-17-2006 | |
| Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann |
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QuickTime for .NET and COM Developers
Chapter One
IntroductionIt's a fair bet that since you bothered to beg, borrow, or perhaps even buy this book, you will have some idea, however vague, of the capabilities of QuickTime. Some of you will be intimately acquainted with the QuickTime C/C++ application programming interface (API) in all its savage glory; others will have used QuickTime in various scripting environments on the Mac or on Windows—perhaps in Macromedia Director or via AppleScript—maybe even in HyperCard if you've been around long enough. Or your QuickTime experience may amount to nothing more than fiddling around with the Pro edition of QuickTime Player.
Nor is it unreasonable to assume that you may already have worked with Visual Basic or with one of the many other Rapid Application Development, or RAD, tools. If so, you will not need to be convinced of the productivity, efficiency, and plain old ease of use that has characterized such tools, from the humble beginnings of Visual Basic over a decade ago to those heavyweights of today: Visual Basic .NET and C#.
Underpinning the success of these tools has been the component-based architecture—first in COM (the Component Object Model) and later in its now fully fledged .NET incarnation. Millions—literally—of developers have grown to love these tools for no other reason than the fact that should their application demand, say, a Kanji editor or a simulated aircraft instrument panel or maybe a calendar with psychedelic dates, all they have to do is source the appropriate component, drop it into their toolbox, and away they go.
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