What's New in QuickTime 5

Flash 4

QuickTime 5 includes support for the interactive playback of SWF 4.0 files by extending the existing SWF importer and the Flash media handler. This support is compatible with SWF 3.0 files supported in QuickTime 4.x.

Major new features of Flash 4 include the following:

Text input through text fields.
New Actions such as Set Property, Set Variable, If, Loop, etc.
Action expressions.
Dragging graphics.

The following new wired actions and an operand targeting a Flash track are added. These allow you to access data in a Flash track from wired actions.

kActionFlashTrackSetFlashVariable
kActionFlashTrackDoButtonActions
kOperandFlashTrackVariable

Two new QT events, kQTEventKey and kQTEventMouseMoved , are added to support keyboard input and mouse events in the Flash media handler. In addition, the QTEventRecord structure is extended to accommodate additional parameters for those events.

For more details of Flash 4 features, consult the appropriate Flash documentation available from Macromedia at http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/ .

Flash 4

New Wired Actions and Operands

QT Events

Importing a Flash Movie