visad.data.qt
Class QTForm

java.lang.Object
  visad.data.FormNode
      visad.data.Form
          visad.data.qt.QTForm

All Implemented Interfaces:

FormFileInformer

public class QTForm
extends Form
implements FormFileInformer

QTForm is the VisAD data form for QuickTime movie files. To use it, QuickTime for Java must be installed. Much of this form's code was adapted from Wayne Rasband's QuickTime Movie Opener and QuickTime Movie Writer plugins for ImageJ (available at http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/).

Field Summary

static int

FRAME_RATE

Fields inherited from class visad.data.Form

mathType

Constructor Summary

QTForm()
Constructs a new QuickTime movie file form.

Method Summary

void	add(java.lang.String id, Data data, boolean replace) Adds data to an existing QuickTime movie.
java.lang.String[]	getDefaultSuffixes() Returns the default file suffixes for the QuickTime movie formats.
FormNode	getForms(Data data) Return the data forms that are compatible with a data object.
boolean	isThisType(byte[] block) Checks if the given block is a valid header for a QuickTime movie.
boolean	isThisType(java.lang.String name) Checks if the given string is a valid filename for a QuickTime movie.
static void	main(java.lang.String[] args) Run 'java visad.data.qt.QTForm in_file out_file' to convert in_file to out_file in QuickTime movie format.
DataImpl	open(java.lang.String id) Opens an existing QuickTime movie from the given location.
DataImpl	open(java.net.URL url) Opens an existing QuickTime movie from the given URL.
void	save(java.lang.String id, Data data, boolean replace) Saves a VisAD Data object to a QuickTime movie at the given location.

Methods inherited from class visad.data.Form

getMathType

Methods inherited from class visad.data.FormNode

getName

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

FRAME_RATE

public static final int FRAME_RATE

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

QTForm

public QTForm()

Constructs a new QuickTime movie file form.

Method Detail

isThisType

public boolean isThisType(java.lang.String name)

Checks if the given string is a valid filename for a QuickTime movie.

Specified by:

isThisType in interface FormFileInformer

isThisType

public boolean isThisType(byte[] block)

Checks if the given block is a valid header for a QuickTime movie.

Specified by:

isThisType in interface FormFileInformer

getDefaultSuffixes

public java.lang.String[] getDefaultSuffixes()

Returns the default file suffixes for the QuickTime movie formats.

Specified by:

getDefaultSuffixes in interface FormFileInformer

save

public void save(java.lang.String id,
                 Data data,
                 boolean replace)
          throws BadFormException,
                 java.io.IOException,
                 java.rmi.RemoteException,
                 VisADException

Saves a VisAD Data object to a QuickTime movie at the given location.

Specified by:

save in class FormNode

Throws:

BadFormException

java.io.IOException

java.rmi.RemoteException

VisADException

add

public void add(java.lang.String id,
                Data data,
                boolean replace)
         throws BadFormException

Adds data to an existing QuickTime movie.

Specified by:

add in class FormNode

Throws:

BadFormException - Always thrown (method is not implemented).

open

public DataImpl open(java.lang.String id)
              throws BadFormException,
                     java.io.IOException,
                     VisADException

Opens an existing QuickTime movie from the given location.

Specified by:

open in class FormNode

Returns:

VisAD Data object containing QuickTime data.

Throws:

BadFormException

java.io.IOException

VisADException

open

public DataImpl open(java.net.URL url)
              throws BadFormException,
                     java.io.IOException,
                     VisADException

Opens an existing QuickTime movie from the given URL.

Specified by:

open in class FormNode

Throws:

BadFormException - Always thrown (method is not implemented).

java.io.IOException

VisADException

getForms

public FormNode getForms(Data data)

Description copied from class: FormNode

Return the data forms that are compatible with a data object.

Specified by:

getForms in class FormNode

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)
                 throws VisADException,
                        java.rmi.RemoteException,
                        java.io.IOException

Run 'java visad.data.qt.QTForm in_file out_file' to convert in_file to out_file in QuickTime movie format.

Throws:

VisADException

java.rmi.RemoteException

java.io.IOException