From: 12 34 <rubyforum@...>
Date: 2007-07-04T09:19:49+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyOSA for QuickTime

Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 7/3/07, 12 34 <rubyforum@web.knobby.ws> wrote:
>> How do I access the properties of a QuickTime movie? I'm trying RubyOSA,
>> but am open to other ideas.
> 
> Why not trying to access the QTKit framework from Ruby via RubyCocoa?

Didn't know I could, and even if I had I didn't know what do to with it. 
I thought RubyCocoa went to the other way. That is, to use Ruby in 
XCode. But obviously it's more than that.

> 
> Here is an example that prints all the metadata properties of a given 
> movie.
> 
> $ cat a.rb
> require 'osx/foundation'
> OSX.require_framework 'QTKit'
> puts OSX::QTMovie.movieWithFile_error(ARGV[0], nil).movieAttributes
> 
> HTH,
> Laurent

Either I've already installed RubyCocoa or I can't. Neither machine will 
allow the pkg installer to work. And I tried by hand recently on my iMac 
desktop, and I got an error at some point.

So unless I figure out how to get around that I'm up a creek.

Also what is cat a.rb. I don't find cat in Ruby, and man cat, tell me 
it's concatenate and pring; but that doesn't make sense to me in this 
context. Much to learn.

Thanks for any other further suggestions.

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