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C H A P T E R 2
Building a Simple QTKitPlayer Application
In this chapter, you’ll build QTKitPlayer, a simple application that demonstrates some of the power
and flexibility of the QuickTime Kit framework. When completed, your QTKitKPlayer application
will allow you to open and play QuickTime movies, as shown in Figure 2-1. Amazingly, you won’t
have to write a single line of code to implement this media player.
Using Xcode as your integrated development environment (IDE), you’ll see how easy it is to work
with the QuickTime Kit framework. In this example, you’ll use the new QTKit palette provided in
the Interface Builder collection of palettes. The QTKit palette will do a lot of the work for you in
constructing this application.
Figure 2-1 The completed QTKitPlayer application
Using the QTKit palette and Xcode, you’ll be able to build a functioning media player application
that displays and controls the playback of QuickTime movies, including QuickTime movies that
support sprites, QuickTime VR, Flash, and 3GPP, among other file types. You’ll even be able to add
a contextual menu that includes editing commands, as shown in Figure 2-2––again, without writing
a single line of code.
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