macOS Catch event from QuickTime player

[Sergio10]

Hello!
I use Carbon API.
How to implement event catcher? When user drag seek in QuickTime player, I want catch this event and to disable seek. How to do it? Please give me some simple code or link to source. I will happy very much) I already wrote about event manager but not understood about it.
Please help me.

P.S. AppleScript is not responsible for this.

 

[robbieduncan]

Does the player even send an event? I'd be very surprised. And even if it does I'm 99% sure you will not be able to stop it. The even would be for information only. If you want to effect the player you'd have to embed a Quicktime player/view in your application and act as a delegate (in Cocoa) to influence it.

If that is what you have done then sorry, but that's not what your post sounds like!

 

[Sergio10]

I know that Event Manager do it. But I do not know if it hav a influences to QuickTime player.( Maybe it is only for applications which can create and than to catch events from it

 

[Nutter]

The Event Manager is for processing user events in your application. It can't intercept arbitrary events that occur in other applications.

 

[MongoTheGeek]

I know that Event Manager do it. But I do not know if it hav a influences to QuickTime player.( Maybe it is only for applications which can create and than to catch events from it

The problem is setting up a delegate.

One thing you can do to partially stop people from scrubbing is

tell application "QuickTime Player"
set controller type of document 1 to none
start document 1
end tell

There are still ways around it though. You may have to just bite the bullet and write your own player. In cocoa, it is almost trivial.