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ttMedia (4)

Name

ttMedia - introduction to Media Exchange messaging conventions

Synopsis

Please see following description for synopsis

Description

ttMedia(4)                      ToolTalk Policy                     ttMedia(4)



NAME
       ttMedia - introduction to Media Exchange messaging conventions

DESCRIPTION
       The  Media  conventions  allow  a  tool to be a container for arbitrary
       media, or to be a media player/editor that can be driven  from  such  a
       container.  These conventions allow a container application to compose,
       display, edit, print, or transform a document  of  an  arbitrary  media
       type,  without  understanding  anything  about the format of that media
       type.  ToolTalk routes container requests to the user's preferred  tool
       for  the  given  media  type  and operation.  This includes routing the
       request to an already-running instance of the tool if that instance  is
       best-positioned to handle the request.

LIST OF MESSAGES
       [file]   Deposit(     in        mediaType   contents,
                             [in       bufferID    beingDeposited
                             in        messageID   commission] );
       [file]   Display(     in        mediaType   contents,
                             [in       messageID   conterfoil]
                             [in       title       docName] );
       [file]   Edit(        [in]out   mediaType   contents,
                             [in       messageID   counterfoil]
                             [in       title       docName ])
       [file]   Mail(        in        mediaType   contents );
       [file]   Mail(        out       mediaType   contents
                             [in       title       docName] );
       [file]   Mail(        inout     mediaType   contents
                             [in       title       docName] );
       [file]   Print(       in        mediaType   contents,
                             in        boolean     inquisitive,
                             in        boolean     covert
       [file]   Translate(   in        mediaType   contents,
                             out       mediaType   output,
                             in        boolean     inquisitive,
                             in        boolean     covert
                             [in       messageID   counterfoil] );

DEFINITIONS
   document
       A vector of bytes with an associated mediaType.

   mediaType
       The  name  of a media format.  The media type of a document allows mes-
       sages about that document to be dispatched to the right tool.  Standard
       media types include:

       ISO_Latin_1          ISO 8859-1 (+TAB+NEWLINE)         ISO
       EUC                  Multi-National Lang. Supplement   AT&T
       PostScript           PostScript Lang. Ref. Manual      Adobe
       Sun_Raster           rasterfile(5)                     Sun
       TIFF                 "TIFF Rev. 5" Technical Memo      Aldus
       GIF                  Graphics Interchange Format       CompuServe
       XPM                  XPM -- The X PixMap Format        Groupe Bull
       JPEG                                                   ISO-CCITT
       JPEG_Movie                                             Parallax
       Sun_Audio            audio_intro(3), audio_hdr(3)      Sun
       RFC_822_Message      RFC 822                           NIC
       MIME_Message         RFC MIME                          NIC
       UNIX_Mail_Folder
       RTF                  MS Word Technical Reference       Microsoft

       EPS
       Sun_CM_Appointment                                     Sun

ERRORS
       1300 TT_MEDIA_ERR_SIZE
              The specified size was too big or too small

       1301 TT_MEDIA_ERR_FORMAT
              The data do not conform to their alleged format


ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Availability   | library/tooltalk |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Stability      | Committed        |
       +---------------+------------------+

NOTES
       It  is  possible  to extract from the ToolTalk types database a list of
       the installed media types.




ToolTalk 1.3                     1 March 1996                       ttMedia(4)