I installed QuickTime 6 the other night, and realized I lost the ability to "present movies" (watch them in full-screen mode). That sucked. A lot. But with some quick AppleScript trickery, I can now watch QuickTime 6 movies in full screen without shelling out thirty bucks just for that functionality, legally (if the command is in the dictionary, and isn't blocked, that's no one's fault but Apple's).
Read the rest of the article for the AppleScript...
(*Enter the above script in ScriptEditor, save it as an application, then drag and drop the movie to be viewed onto the script's icon and choose "screen" for a full-screen presentation.
Full-screener! by Mikey-San.
http://www.mikey-san.net/
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on open theMovie
tell application "QuickTime Player"
activate
set request to display dialog "Select a scaling, fool!" with icon ¬
note buttons {"normal", "double", "screen"} default button "screen"
if button returned of request is "normal" then
open theMovie
present movie 1 scale normal
else if button returned of request is "double" then
open theMovie
present movie 1 scale double
else if button returned of request is "screen" then
open theMovie
present movie 1 scale screen
end if
end tell
end open
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