QuickTime Controller Visibility

[Xairbusdriver]

I have a series of vids that go along with a PDF version of a programming course. I've been lazy for too many weeks and haven't been studying it. Today, having lots of spare time, I started things up, again.

Only one slight but frustrating problem; the controls for QuickTime 10 are visible when the movie starts and they disappear normally, but I can't get them to RE-appear! The keyboard shortcuts still work, although I had to look those up, other than the Space Bar 'Play/Stop' one.

Good thing I had all that spare time; I spent a good two hours searching for the answer!. Of course, there are no Prefs for the app, "It's stupid simple, who could possibly need any prefs?!" Found several threads about getting the controls to hide faster or when a vid is paused (they normally reappear then... for everyone but me!). Downloaded QuickTime 7, which works normally. Found some 'defaults write' Terminal scripts that looked promising. I almost didn't notice one thread that only fleetingly mentioned OnyX as having the power to control the controls.

Sure enough, some idiot grabbed my iMac, opened OnyX while I wasn't looking and used it to set the QuickTime controls to "Always hide" the controls!!! I'll investigate who the culprit might be, but I note that our cat is almost always 'sleeping' on her perch in the computer room...

[jchuzi]

Why would OnyX have something like that? It reminds me of a Far Side cartoon by Gary Larson (one of my all-time favorite cartoonists). In it, a passenger in a plane is contemplating a switch on his seat that has two positions:

1. Wings Stay On
2. Wings Fall Off

[Xairbusdriver]

As for QT, I can see the benefit if one takes a lot of screen/window captures.

I tended to always want my wings to stay on 110% of the time when I was working.

But that kind of switch always seemed excessive in elevators that were in buildings with only two floors. Do you really need an 'up' button AND a 'down' button?! Certainly a toggle or vertically sliding switch would suffice. But a sturdier solution could be a single push button; the 'logic' would be, if one lower floor, go up, if not, go down.