Tip: scrolling text through QuickTime

[julifos]

Hi!
Scrolling text is sometimes a must-have. Here is a sample to create it.
The stuff is: you write some text to a file, then tell QuickTime to open such file (or you can use it in any interface capable of embed quicktime stuff, such as a quicktime containers in AppleScript Studio).

{QTtext}
{font:Monaco}
{plain}
{size:10}
{shrinkTextBox:On}
{textColor: 0, 0, 0}
{backColor: 65535, 65535, 65535}
{justify:left}
{timeScale:600}
{width:300}
{height:15}
{timeStamps:absolute}
{language:0}
{textEncoding:0}
{ScrollIn:on}
{horizontalScroll:on}
{ScrollOut:on}

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Sample scrolling text run-able from any quicktime capable application
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I think all tags are self-explaining in this example. More info on this QTtext format here: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/REF/refDataExchange.6.htm

More power, using the SMIL format, here: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/IQ_InteractiveMovies/quicktimeandsmil/index.html

[Rob]

JJ,

This sounds pretty cool! I created a text document using your example and everything works except the text doesn’t show up. Any ideas what might be causing this to fail?

Edit: Never mind. Safari added some garbage. It works fine! Thanks for sharing this - I wasn’t aware of this capability.

– Rob