January 2005
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
6h 34m
English
Content preview from QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook
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Chapter 1. Getting Up and Running with QuickTime for Java
Do you need to do anything special to start developing QuickTime for Java applications? The answer to that question is easily answered by another question: are you using Mac OS X? If so, you have everything you need: Java, QuickTime, and QuickTime for Java (QTJ). If you’re using Windows, you might have some downloading to do.
Setting Up QTJ on Windows
First, you must have Java installed, presumably the latest developer kit release from Sun. As of this writing, that would be the J2SE 1.4.2 SDK, which lives at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html. Now you must install and/or update QuickTime.
How do I do that?
If you don’t already have QuickTime (or iTunes, which includes QuickTime in its install), you can get it from http://quicktime.apple.com/. What’s perhaps more common is that you have QuickTime, but you don’t have QuickTime for Java, which is not installed by default.
In this case, you can use the QuickTime Updater to update your copy of QuickTime and install custom pieces like QTJ. If you have the QuickTime icon down in your System Tray, you can right-click it to launch the Updater, as seen in Figure 1-1. You can also get to the Updater via Start → Programs → QuickTime → QuickTime Updater.
Figure 1-1. Launching the QuickTime Updater from the system tray
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