Re: [Pyobjc-dev] QTKit and PyObjC

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

On 17 May, 2008, at 19:43, Orestis Markou wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to follow Apple's example (http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/Conceptual/QTKitProgrammingGuide/
>  ), but I'm a bit stumped at chapter 5 (http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/Conceptual/QTKitProgrammingGuide/Chapter05/chapter_5_section_5.html
> 	) where they use some weird stuff I can't find anywhere.
>
> Digging from http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pyobjc.devel/4753/
>  , it seems that quickTimeMovieController isn't wrapped yet. Does
> that mean that you can only use it in Objective-C but not from Python,
> or that it's not usable at all?

Could you file a bug about that on SF.net? I almost never use  
Quicktime myself and without the reminder of a bugreport this is  
likely to get forgotten.

>
>
> Also, since there are a lot of low level C stuff going on with
> QuickTime, I'm wondering if they are usable from PyObjC (perhaps
> ctypes will do the correct thing?). I couldn't find any documentation
> on that.

There's  Carbon.Qt, the Quicktime wrappers in the standard library.  
Those are ancient, but work.

Ronald