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QuickTime for Java SDK                              Updated: 13 Sept 1999

Read Me Notes to "GraphicsExport" Demo and Sample Code

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This demo program shows how to use the GraphicsExport component to export a input graphics, and using the user dialog to customise export settings.
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The minimum runtime requirements for this Sample Code are:

- Common
	- Sun Compliant Java Runtime Environment 1.1
	- QuickTime 3 
	- QTJava.zip

- MacOS:
	- System 8 or later
	- Macintosh Runtime for Java (MRJ) 2.1

- Mac OS X
	- 10.0 or later

- Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000 or XP.
	- JRE/JDK from Sun Microsystems, Inc. recommended

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Media requirements for this Sample Code - user supplied image file

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Notes & Comments

This code shows how to export a graphics , using the user dialog to customise export settings to a image file. 
You select a graphics export component  based on the desired output format, such as GIF or PNG. 
The input to the GraphicsExporter can be a QuickDraw picture, PixMap or a GWorld and GraphicsImporter. 
The graphic image can be exported to a handle, a file, or a data reference. 
QuickTime supports standard image formats, third-party developers may also write their own graphics exporters for other image file formats


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General Comments

- QTSession.open and close:

A QTSession.open will perform a gestalt check to ensure that QuickTime is present and is initialized. This is a required call before any QuickTime Java classes can be used.

QTSession.close is called after the program has finished exporting


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