text on top of player object

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hutchfx
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text on top of player object

Post by hutchfx » Thu May 05, 2011 8:39 am

I'm building a kiosk-like application. I'd like to have a QT movie looping in the background, with changeable text floating over it. Is there a way to put text on top of a player object?

Thanks!

Hutch

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Re: text on top of player object

Post by Klaus » Thu May 05, 2011 11:39 am

Hi Hutch,

I'm afraid this is not possible in LiveCode.

You could however set the "alwaysbuffer" of the player object to true,
but that may slow down the performance of the video, to say the least...


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Re: text on top of player object

Post by shaosean » Thu May 05, 2011 11:42 am

Set the "alwaysBuffer" to true (on the player object).. You lose the use of the player controls though (play/pause, volume, etc) but you can mimic them in custom controls or through code..

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Re: text on top of player object

Post by Klaus » Thu May 05, 2011 12:04 pm

HI all,

ah, well, just made a test and yes, the movie runs fine!?
Sorry for my first posting, looks like this has improved a lot since I last tested this feature.

Again, sorry for the negative answer! :)


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Klaus

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