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General Meeting
Location: Auditorium
Date: Tuesday, January 2
Topic: Using Macromedia Flash in Your Delphi Apps
Doug Bannister, Omnivex Corporation
http://www.omnivex.com
  • Why would you want to do this?
    • Splash Screens
    • About Dialogs
    • Presentations

  • Importing the ActiveX component into Delphi
    • Where do you get the component?
    • How to install the component into Delphi

  • Using the component in the sample application
    • Make a form that displays two flash files at once
      • You can't play two mpgs on one form at the same time using TMediaPlayer so Flash is more fun
      • Macromedia already makes a program that will play one Flash file so that's already been done
      • Adds an extra wrinkle to the resizing issue

  • Basic properties and methods
    • LoadMovie
    • Play
    • Stop
    • Rewind
    • Loop

  • The problem with resizing
    • When playing, the Flash presentation will not resize
    • How to get this to work

  • Advanced properties and methods
    • Total Frames and FrameNum
    • Quality
    • Zoom
    • Pan
    • SetZoomRect
    • Perhaps others

  • Questions and Answers

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