README - VRSHELL

VRShell is a simple QuickTime and QuickTime VR viewer framework.
It demonstrates how to incorporate QuickTime and QuickTime VR movies into an application.
VRShell is based heavily on the MovieShell QuickTime playback framework included with the
DTS QT sample code. Essentially, VRShell is just MovieShell with these differences:

(1) the coding style has been regularized to what I prefer
(2) the bare minimum changes have been made to support VR movies
(3) some menu commands have been added to show how VR movies
    respond to QuickTime movie controller calls

VRShell uses standard QuickTime calls to hide and show the controller bar.
For examples of using the QTVR API, see the other code samples, which are based on VRShell.

ROADMAP TO THE SOURCE CODE

The source code for VRShell consists of two kinds of files:

(1) Source files that are used by *ALL* the sample applications that are based on VRShell.
These files are in the Common Files folder in the folder that contains the folder you
are currently in.

(2) Source files that are specific to the VRShell application. These files are in the Application Files folders in this folder, or in this folder itself.

Tim Monroe
QuickTime VR team

04 June 1997
