Video in a form

[SitesMasstec]

Dear colleagues:

I created a form to display text about some food recipes.

For example, if the user chooses recipe n.17, the form will show a text (inside a text box) about "how to prepare" the food recipe n.17.

Now I want to display a video beside the text, that will play R17.AVI; if the user chooses recipe n.200 the video will play R200.AVI, and so on.

The variable Which_Video stores the name of the video (Which_Video can be R1.AVI, R2.AVI, ... R999.AVI).

Thank you,

SitesMasstec

 

[bborissov]

Check "Video Player" class in event of the Multimedia foundation classes or check:
"Play Multimedia Files Using MCI Commands Sample" in Help.


Borislav Borissov
VFP9 SP2, SQL Server

 

[Tore Bleken]

DO HOME(2)+"solution\main.prg"

Select Windows API -> Play multimedia files using MCI commands

 

[SitesMasstec]

Dear colleagues:

I just want to put a video class in my form (and the video will have the proper Property defined as '=Which_Video' or '&Which_Video' (variable 'Which_Video' may be R1.AVI, R2.AVI, ... R999.AVI, depending of what the user choose from a field, or from a List box('Which recipe do you want to watch?' 1...999).

Which class can I use to do this?

Thank you.

 

[Tore Bleken]

Did you press the "See code" button? You can actually copy most of the form objects into your own form, and it will work.

 

[SitesMasstec]

Hello tbleken!

Yes, I copied, but I want just play a pre-defined AVI movie.

I think I can just put a class in the form, without bells & whistles, to play a movie.

Thank you,

Sites Masstec

 

[Tore Bleken]

Using API is the far easiest solution, since it doesn't require any activeX, DLL or anything, it all comes with Windows. If you want a class, you can create a class. Remember, a class is just a way of storing "things", not necessarily anything magic.