This is a little movie I made to test how Quicktime deals with real time text input. It is also the first step in a project to dynamically source video material from any URL. In future examples I will use this same method to paste a URL and load it into another window.
Click the poster movie to load the real one. Click above the line and enter some text. The movie copies the contents of the top text track to a string and adds it to the start of the bottom text track. I initially had the movie execute this action only when you clicked. In a purely ‘functional’ interface this is how I would do it but I wanted to stress the real time aspect of the process so I have the movie add text on the ‘Idle’ event handler. This means the text will start cascading down the second track as the user types without waiting for them to finish.
The LiveStage Pro source files can be downloaded here.
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