Front cover -- QuickTime Developer Series -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- About the Author -- Preface -- QuickTime -- What's in This Book? -- Discovering QuickTime -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Introduction -- Why QuickTime? -- Why .NET and COM? -- COM -- .NET -- COM Interop -- QuickTime Meets COM and .NET -- Who Is This Book For? -- What Should I Know Before Reading This Book? -- Code Samples -- Additional Resources -- .NET, Visual Basic, and C# -- Windows Scripting -- QuickTime -- 2 Getting Started with the QuickTime Control -- Introduction -- Hello World! -- Simple Player - The Basics -- Initialization -- Opening and Closing Movies -- Controlling the Movie -- Getting Information about the Movie -- Scaling the Movie -- Full-Screen Movies -- Automatically Sizing the Form -- About... -- Summary -- 3 Using the QuickTime Control -- Introduction -- The Apple QuickTime Control -- Get the Big Picture -- Movies -- Loading a Movie -- Movie Scaling and Sizing -- A Resizeable Window for Simple Player -- Background and Border -- Movie Controller -- Auto Play -- Control over Full-Screen Display -- Initializing QuickTime -- Is QuickTime Available? -- Probing Deeper -- Summary -- 4 The QuickTime Object Model -- Introduction -- Object Models -- The QuickTime Object Model -- QTMovie and Its Offspring -- QTQuickTime and Its Offspring -- Summary -- 5 Diving Deeper -- Introduction -- QuickTime Events -- Registering for QuickTime Events -- Handling QuickTime Events -- Sample: QuickTime Events Demo -- QuickTime Metadata -- Annotations -- CFObject and Its Uses -- CFObject Collection -- The Annotations CFDictionary -- Complex CFObject Data Structures -- Persistent CFObject -- Error Handling -- Summary -- 6 Create and Edit -- Introduction -- The Joy of Cut, Copy, and Paste -- Implementing the Edit Menu -- Saving the Movie.

Creating a New Movie -- Movie Builder -- Assembling a Movie -- Adding an Overlay -- Subtitling the Movie -- Summary of the Edit Capabilities of QTMovie -- Creating a Movie from Images -- SMIL the Movie -- Creating a Movie Using GDI -- Saving a New Movie -- Summary -- 7 Browsing the Media -- For the Birds -- Design Decisions -- Implementation -- Picking the Components -- Building the Bare Bones -- Directory Browsing -- Media Display -- Wiring Up the Connections -- Adding the QuickTime Control -- Media Inspector -- A Tooltip -- Summary -- 8 Scripting QuickTime Player -- Introduction -- Scripting QuickTime on the Mac -- Windows Scripting Host -- COM (Automation) Server -- QuickTime Player: A COM Server -- Opening and Playing a Movie -- The QuickTime Player Object Model -- Working with Players -- A Movie Builder Script -- Batch Export from the Command Line -- Event Handlers -- Script Droplets -- Windows Scripting File (.wsf) Format -- Summary -- 9 QuickTime Meets Office -- Introduction -- Excel -- Adding the QuickTime Control -- ActiveX and Macro Security -- Adding a Play/Stop Cell -- Movie Inspector -- Movie Inspector with Annotation Editing -- Batch Processing: Movie Annotator -- Access -- Movie Display -- QuickTime Event Handling -- Summary -- Appendix A: QuickTime COM Library Reference -- QuickTime Control (QTOControlLib) -- QuickTime Object Library (QTOLibrary) -- Appendix B: Additional COM Host Environments -- Visual Basic 6 -- Getting Started -- Adding a Load Button -- Adding a Play/Stop Button -- Resizing the Form to Fit the Control -- Responding to Manual Resize of the Form -- Porting Code Samples to Visual Basic 6 or Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) -- Delphi -- Getting Started -- Loading a Movie -- Playing the Movie -- Handling QuickTime Events -- ATL/WTL -- Getting Started -- Adding the QuickTime Control -- Adding a Play/Stop Button.

Handling Events from the QuickTime Control -- QuickTime Events -- Appendix C: QuickTime Exporter Types -- Exporter Types -- Index.