Multiple QuickTime movies of different size

Is there any way through quicktime scripting to determine the
size of a
movie? The documentation that came with Authorware does not
have a feature
listed for this. I have two different sized movies (640x480
and 384x288)
and I need to figure out how to determine which QT Sprite i
should use to
display the movie. I figure that there would be some function
to do this
since when you import the movie into the QT Sprite, the size
of the movie is
shown.
Chris

Thanks Steve,
It worked prefectly. I knew there had to be a function that
would do this.
Thanks again.
Chris
"gantek" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:eo18jf$no0$[email protected]..
> >Is there any way through quicktime scripting to
> >determine the size of a movie?
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Try this:
>
> TempString:=GetIconProperty(@Movie, #rect)
> MovieWidth:=GetNumber(3, TempString)
> MovieHeight:=GetNumber(4, TempString)
>
> I have a complete example on my site:
> www.gantekmultimedia.com/download.htm
>
> Download: qt_implementation.a6p (46 K)
>
> HTH...
>
> - Steve Gannon
> GanTek Multimedia
>
>
>

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<s:WindowedApplication xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
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