QTPlugin is a plugin for Real Studio (formerly known as RealBasic) that lets you access to a lot of the routines and structures provided by the QuickTime multimedia programming architecture. If you need to manage media devices and data or provide multimedia support to your applications using the QuickTime engine, this plugin is that right one for you.
The plugin comprises more than 200 classes, 4 modules and 64 global methods (the Cocoa version does not support global methods anymore) that make easy for you to work with the QuickTime engine maintaining a great deal of control over it.
A great effort has been done to make complicate things as easier as possible: you will notice that such tasks as creating and animating sprites, applying tweening, dealing with properties of movies, tracks, and media, playing back data, send or receive streaming over a network, acquiring data from external devices and so on, can be accomplished with just a few lines of code. On the other hand, the plugin API is so rich to let you gain a deeper control over the QuickTime technologies you are going to use if you need it.
Using the QTPlugin enables you to work whether with digital media directly supported by the QuickTime API and with other kinds of media, such as uncompressed float still images, that QuickTime does not recognize by itself.
The QTPlugin Functional Details document summarizes the plugin capabilities.
QTPlugin is shipped as a RBX file; this means that you can use it with RealBasic IDE 5.0 or later. The version 6.0 of the plugin is more restrictive and requires RealBasic IDE 5.5.4 or later; finally, starting from version 6.6.0, the minimum version of the RealBasic IDE required is the 2006 Release 4. Trying to use the plugin with earlier versions of the RealBasic IDE will fail.
The Developing Central provides access to technical resources and information to assist you in developing with the latest technologies provided by the QTPlugin.
To know more about the RealBasic cross-platform development environment visit the RealSoftware's site.
In order to use the last plugin version you must have:
- RealBasic IDE 2006 Release 4 or later (either Windows or Macintosh version)
- QuickTime 3.0 or later installed (using the latest QuickTime version is highly recommended)
The plugin allows you to compile your projects for the following targets:
- Mac OS 8-9 (Classic)
- Mac OS 8-9 (Carbon)
- Mac OS X Universal Binary
- Mac OS X PowerPC
- Mac OS X Intel
- Cocoa
- Windows(98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7)
QTPlugin is Universal Binary.
To install the plugin, simply create a folder, if it does not already exist, in the same folder as the RealBasic application called "Plugins" then, toss the plugin into this folder and fire-up RealBasic. Your new application can now take advantage of the added functionality of the QTPlugin.
In order to avoid any conflicts or problem with earlier versions of the plugin, be sure to remove any pre-existing QTPlugin version from the "Plugins" folder
In addition, occasionally, the new incremental compiling mechanism introduced in the latest
versions of the RealBasic IDE could lead to the need to clear the projects cache (this issue has been fixed by RealSoftware in the
Realbasic 2009 Release 1). To accomplish that do the following steps:
On Macintosh:
- go to the ~/Library/Caches/REALbasic/
- remove any item from that folder
- rebuild your project
- go to \Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Realbasic\
- remove any item from that folder
- rebuild your project
The latest plugin version introduces many improvements and new features to the plugin API intended to improve your developing experience; the most significatives of them are:
- added support for Cocoa platform
- added support for executing component tasks in background and receiving feedback from them on the main thread (Mac OS X only feature)
- introduced a new wrapper class to make possible to receive events from components during the execution of a task
- introduced a new wrapper class to make possible to receive events during the playback of data
- added auto–idling features to all that classes that need to be idled. That removes the need of manually idling the classes with a timer control
- added classes to use pixel buffer and OpenGL contexts to playback movies (Mac OS X only feature)
- added API to capture screen (Mac OS X only feature)
- added a set of APIs to deal with NCLC color informations, pixel aspect ratio, clean aperture and to get/set aperture dimensions in movies and tracks
- added a handful of classes to programmatically configure QuickTime built-in effects
- many other improvements to the plugin classes and modules
You can email any question, suggest, comment or new feature request to the including the "QTPlugin-Feedback" keyword (without quotes) into the subject field.
You can report any supposed bug, problem or other plugin malfunctioning by sending an email to the including the "QTPlugin-Bugs" keyword (without quotes) into the subject field.
Finally, you can use our Mail Form directly on this site to contact us.
The QTPlugin Demo is fully-featured and functional to offer a true test of the software: there is no time limit or any other restriction. It does not allow you to create stand-alone applications that make use of the plugin but it is otherwise identical to the retail version. You will obtain a full working version of the plugin upon purchase. Enjoy it!
| (.zip, 9.3 MB) |
| Release Date: 04/16/2011 |
I have to give a thank to all of that people who has contribute to improve the plugin by acquiring and using it and by sending to me compliments, suggestions, comments, bugs reports and so on.
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