• QuickTime Basics

• Movies and Media Data Structures

• Movies––A Few Good Concepts

• Time Management

• The QuickTime Architecture

• The Movie Toolbox

• The Image Compression Manager

• QuickTime Components

• The Component Manager

• Atoms

• QuickTime Player

• Sprites and Sprite Animation

• Creating Desktop Sprites

• Wired Movies

• Adding Actions

• Wired Actions

• User Events

• Using Flash and QuickTime

• QuickTime Media Skins

• SMIL

• QuickTime VR

• The QuickTime VR Media Type

• Creating QTVR Movies Programmatically

• Sprite Animation and the Sprite Toolbox

• Sprites and the Sprite Toolbox

• Sprite World Characteristics

• Sprite Tracks

• Sprite Animation

• Sprite Spatial Concepts

• Local Coordinate System

• Source Box

• Bounding Box

• Four Corners

• Registration Point

• Display Space

• Sprite Properties

• Wired Movies

• Adding Actions

• QuickTime Events

• Actions and Their Targets

• Action Parameters

• Expressions

• Operators

• Operands

• External Movie Targets for Wired Actions

• Defining the Sprite Media Handler

• Key Frame Samples and Override Samples

• Sprite Track Media Format

• Assigning Group IDs

• Sprite Image Registration

• Sprite Track Properties

• Alternate Sources for Sprite Image Data

• Supported Modifier Inputs

• Hit-Testing Flags

• Using Sprites in a Sprite Track

• Referenced Sprite Images

• Specifying Sprite Button Behaviors

• Using the Action Handler Sprite Property

• String Variable Support

• Creating a QuickTime Sprite Movie

• Useful Sprite Media Handler Functions

• SpriteMediaSetSpriteProperty

• SpriteMediaGetSpriteProperty

• SpriteMediaHitTestAllSprites

• SpriteMediaCountSprites

• SpriteMediaCountImages

• SpriteMediaGetIndImageDescription

• SpriteMediaGetDisplayedSampleNumber

• SpriteMediaGetSpriteName

• SpriteMediaGetImageName

• SpriteMediaHitTestOneSprite

• SpriteMediaSpriteIndexToID

• SpriteMediaSpriteIDToIndex

• SpriteMediaGetIndImageProperty

• Sprites Functions Specific to Wired Sprites

• SpriteMediaSetActionVariable

• SpriteMediaGetActionVariable

• SpriteDescription Structure

• Wired Actions in QuickTime

• New Wired Actions

• New Wired Operands

• Authoring Movies With the Sprite Media Handler

• Defining a Key Frame Sample

• Creating the Movie, Sprite Track, and Media

• Adding Images to the Key Frame Sample

• Adding More Images for Other Sprites

• Adding Sprites to the Key Frame Sample

• Adding More Actions to Other Sprites

• Adding Sample Data in Compressed Form

• Defining Override Samples

• Setting Properties of the Sprite Track

• Retrieving Sprite Data From a Modifier Track

• Authoring Wired Movies

• Actions of the First Penguin

• Actions of the Second Penguin

• Creating a Wired Sprite Movie

• Assigning the No Controller to the Movie

• Setting Up the Sprite Track’s Properities

• Adding an Event Handler to the Penguin

• Adding a Series of Actions to the Penguins

• Important Things to Note in the Sample Code

• Authoring Movies With External Movie Targets

• Specifying an External Movie Target for an Action

• Target Atoms for Embedded Movies

• Supporting External Movie Targets

• Specifying String Parameters to Actions and Operands

• Wiring a Movie by Adding an HREF Track

• Creating an HREF Track

• Adding Hypertext Links to a QuickTime Movie With a Text Track

• Step #1––Creating a Movie With a Text Track and Hypertext Links

• Step #2––Creating a New Text Movie

• Step #3––Adding a Text Sample to the Movie

• Step #4––Adding a Hypertext Link

• Step #5––Adding a Specified Atom Container

• Step #6––Getting the First Media Sample

• Step #7––Adding Hypertext Actions

• Step #8––Replacing the Sample

• Step #9––Updating the Movie Resource

• Overview of Sprite Toolbox

• How To Add Sprite-Based Animations to an Application

• Creating and Initializing a Sprite World

• Creating and Initializing Sprites

• Creating Sprites for a Sample Application

• Animating Sprites

• Disposing of a Sprite Animation

• Sprite Hit-Testing

• Hit-Testing Flags

• Enhancing Sprite Animation Performance

• Constants and Functions in the Sprite Toolbox

• Constants

• Background Sprites

• Flags for Sprite Hit-Testing

• Sprite Properties

• Flags for SpriteWorldIdle

• Sprite and Sprite World Identifiers

• Useful Sprite Toolbox Functions

• NewSpriteWorld

• DisposeSpriteWorld

• SetSpriteWorldClip

• SetSpriteWorldMatrix

• SpriteWorldIdle

• InvalidateSpriteWorld

• SpriteWorldHitTest

• DisposeAllSprites

• NewSprite

• DisposeSprite

• InvalidateSprite

• SpriteHitTest

• GetSpriteProperty

• SetSpriteProperty

• Flash Media

• Flash Support in QuickTime

• Wired Actions and Operands

• kActionFlashTrackSetFlashVariable

• kActionFlashTrackDoButtonActions

• kOperandFlashTrackVariable

• QT Events

• Importing a Flash Movie

• Adding Wired Actions To a Flash Track

• Extending the SWF Format

• What You Need to Modify

• File Length

• ActionRecordsOffset

• ActionOffset

• Condition

• Actions

• DoAction

• Embedded Movies

• Creating New Types of QuickTime Movies

• Using Embedded Movies

• Dynamically Loading Embedded Movies From URLs

• Triggering Wired Actions When an Embedded Movie is Loaded

• Targeting Elements of Embedded Movies with All Wired Actions

• Target Type Atoms for Hierarchical Movies

• Example #1

• Example #2

• Movie Track and Movie Wired Actions

• Movie Controller Actions

• Wired QT Event

• Extended Wired Operand Functionality

• Wired Actions and JavaScript

• Movie Property Atom Toolbox Routines

• Custom Wired Actions

• Custom Action Handler Usage

• Authoring Custom Wired Actions

• Extension to Wired Movie Format: Executing Custom Actions

• Wired Actions

• Wired Operands

• Writing a Custom Action Handler Component

• The Action Being Executed

• Fetching the Parameters

• QT Atom Containers

• Creating, Copying, and Disposing of Atom Containers

• Creating New Atoms

• Copying Existing Atoms

• Retrieving Atoms From an Atom Container

• Modifying Atoms

• Removing Atoms From an Atom Container

• Introduction to SMIL

• Importing SMIL Documents

• Building Customized Presentations

• Movie Tracks

• Getting Started With SMIL

• Overview

• SMIL Structure

• Layout

• Root Layout

• Regions

• The Body

• Combining Sequences and Parallel Groups

• SMIL Media Elements

• Region

• Duration

• Begin and End

• Clickable Links

• Throwing a Switch

• Using SMIL in QuickTime

• Creating QuickTime-Friendly SMIL Documents

• Examples

• Special Media Types

• Text

• VR

• HTML

• QuickTime SMIL Extensions

• New SMIL Extensions Added in QuickTime

• Embedding SMIL Documents in a Web Page

• Using QTSRC

• Saving a SMIL Document as a .mov File

• QuickTime Media Links XML Importer

• Making a Fast Start Reference Movie

• Targeting QuickTime Player

• SMIL Support in QuickTime

• SMIL Usage

• A Simple Sequence

• A Sequence with HREF, Region and Background Text

• QuickTime SMIL Extensions in Detail

• Namespace Specification

• SMIL Root Element Attributes

• Media Object Attributes

• Anchor-Tag and A-Tag Attributes

• Movie Media Track

• Movie Media Track Usage

• Movie Media Handler

• Movie Sample Description

• Movie Media Sample Format

• References

• QuickTime Programming Books in PDF

• The QuickTime Developer Series

• Inside Macintosh

• Some Useful QuickTime Websites