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Using Mac Toolbox routines Under Windows 98/95/NT

Q Are all the Macintosh Toolbox functions available for use with QuickTime 3 for Windows?

A QuickTime was not intended to be a general porting layer. Moving the full Mac QuickTime 2.5 API to Windows 98/95/NT required a number of other structures and API subsets to be ported as well. These subsets include parts of Memory, Resources, FSSpecs, Aliases, and GWorlds.

When necessary, you can use these "toolbox" subsets in conjunction with QuickTime services. For example, use GetFNum( ) in conjunction with text tracks, NewRgn() in conjunction with drawing a movie, etc. We will not remove any of these, nor will we significantly improve or expand on them, other than to better support QuickTime.

[Sep 21 1998]

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