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Can I get the current time of a movie while it is playing? I want to do something based on the current time.

For that matter, are there any other movie commands than PLAYMOVIE and LOOPMOVIE, like STOPMOVIE or set the playhead of the movie to a particular time?

I'm trying to evaluate GLBasic to see if it can do what I want...

In the Help I'm not finding much reference to text display beyond basic strings. Is there the concept of a text field object that displays text?

How would I display a paragraph of text that wraps within a defined border?

If text is read from an external document, is it just plain text? Can GLBasic read and display an HTML file or such?

I'll ultimately want to do all this for iPhone which has all of this. It might seem that I would have to do some kind of hybrid between GLBasic and the iPhone SDK.

I'm a new user of GLBasic, trying it out to see if it can do what I want--a non-game app that shows video, pics, text, in other words, a multimedia application that is easy to program. I have several questions now, but will start with basic issues.

I'm playing a movie using the PLAYMOVIE command. The movie was converted from a .mov to an .avi in Quicktime Player on a Mac. It was originally 320x240. How do I show that movie at that size and not scale it up to full screen as is happening now? Also how do I set the movie's location in the window?