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marty
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 Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2002 4:33 pm Post subject: POSSIBLE Macromedia Flash DLL for VDS – Your opini |
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Hello, I may be releasing a Macromedia Flash DLL extension for VDS, but before I need FEEDBACk to see if I release it, how many (if any) of you would be interested. The extension would be SHAREWARE, and be selling it for around $19.99US (to be determined).
Any feedback is necessary… positive or negative….PLEASE… 
To see some great Flash open source projects you could use with this DLL goto :
http://www.flashkit.com/movies/
Description:
Macromedia Flash Plugin for VDS:
Giving VDS Flash possibilities would open up so many new interesting multimedia features for VDS. Someone could incorporate a flash game, flash chat system, visualisations, and so many more possibilities already available on the internet. Also someone that knows Macromedia Flash could built powerfull addons to be incorporated into his VDS application.
The Flash OCX is installed on most windows these days. If you have the Flash plugin installed you have the OCX.
Ideally the DLL could be used without the OCX..The OCX would be compiled with the DLL, so a user could still run the VDS application and Flash stuff without the need to have the plugin installed.
The DLL will be compatible with VDS 4.x and up and 3.x if possible.
VDS FLASH FUNCTIONS AND COMMANDS EXAMPLES :
(The vds syntax will change, its just to give you an idea)
The creation of the element would be done like this for example:
| Code: | EXTENSION VDSFLASH.DLL,registereduser|2183618368132
DIALOG CREATE,Testflash,-1,0,300,300,CLASS VFLASH
OBJECT,VFLASH
OBJECT ADD,FLASH1,VFLASH,10,10,100,100,c:\test.swf |
,(And maybe styles like NORCLICK (no rightclick),etc..to be determined)
The DLL should give the possibility to add more than ONE Flash element on a VDS Dialog.
The DLL should have the following fonctionnalities:
Movie
Quality
Quality2
BackgroundColor
Loop
FrameNum
Menu
Base
Playing
LoadMovie
Possible usage example for the functions:
"Movie" This is where you tell the DLL the Path to the flash (.swf) file. and you would use it as follow:
%%flash = Movie=<SrcDir>\myflash.swf
@vdsflash(SetProperties,%flash)
"Quality" This here will set the Quality of your flash Movie, You have two options : 1 for High quality and 0 for low Quality. by default is set to High.
%%quality = Quality=1
@vdsflash(SetProperties,%%quality)
"Quality2" is similar to "Quality the only difference is her you would use the words High and Low instead 1 and 0 :
%%quality2= Quality2=low
@vdsflash(SetProperties,%%quality2)
"BackgroundColor" This is you can change the Background color of your flash movie at any time, and you would use it as follow:
%%BColor = BackgroundColor=00000 **which will set it to black
@vdsflash(SetProperties,%%BColor)
"Loop" This here does what is says, it will allow to either set the Loop to true (1) or flase (0) where 1 is Loop and 0 is no loop:
%%loop = Loop=0
@vdsflash(SetProperties,%%loop)
"Menu" This here will allow either to Show the Whole Flash Menu or just the About Macromedia Menu. Where 0 is Small Menu and 1 is Full Menu:
%%Menu = Menu=0
@vdsflash(SetProperties,%%menu)
"LoadMovie" This Here will allow to load another Flash Movie on top of the already loaded Movie and you can loaded on any Layer, so basically this here will allow to either replace the loaded flash movie with a new one using layer 0 or mix the new flash movie with the already loaded one by using other layers from 1 and up.....depending on how many layers you have is your already loaded flash movie.
%%addmovie = LoadMovie=0,c:\myfile.swf
@vdsflash(SetProperties,%%addmovie)
"GotoFrame" This here will allow you to go to any frame number right from VDS:
%%frame = GotoFrame=20
@vdsflash(Gotoframe,%%frame)
"FrameNum" this here you can use to jump to a certain Frame Number in your flash movie :
%%framenum = FrameNum=20 **Which will take as to frame number 20
@vdsflash(jumptoframe,%%framenum)
"PercentLoaded" This Here you would use it if you are Streaming the Flash Movie from the internet. which will tell you how much in percent is loaded.
@vdsflash(getpercent)
"Flash Status"
With this you would be able to get the status of the flash window. Like playing or stopped for example.
@vdsflash(getstatus)
Could return 1 for playing and 0 for not playing
"CurrentFrame" This here will allow you get the CurrentFrane of the flash Movie.
@vdsflash(currentframe)
"FlashVersion" This Here will allow to display the Flash OCX version, that is installed in the users hard drive. and will be used as follow:
@vdsflash(flashversion)
"SetVariable" and "GetVariable" Can be used to communicate between the flash movie and your VDS Project: and it would be used as follow:
To Send a variable from VDS To the Flash Movie you use: "SetFlashVariable" like this :
SETVAR:
%%variable = SetVariable=name,Testing Flash
VDSFLASH SETVAR,FLASH1,%%variable
And to Get Variables from the flash movie to VDS you use "GetVariable" like this:
**Where name is the variable name used in the flash movie.
GETVAR:
%%fvariable = GetVariable=name
%a = @vdsflash(GetVar)
Info %a
COMMANDS:
Zoom
SetZoomRect
Play
Stop
Back
Forward
Rewind
Show/Hide
Enable/Disable RightClick
"Zoom" This here will allow you to Zoom IN and OUT on your flash Movie:
VDSFLASH ZOOMIN,VDSFLASH1
"Play","Stop","Back","Forward"," Rewind" these will do what they say and you use as follow:
VDSFLASH PLAY,FLASH1
VDSFLASH STOP,FLASH1
VDSFLASH BACK,FLASH1
VDSFLASH FORWARD,FLASH1
“HIDE AND SHOW”: This will either hide or show the element FLASH1
VDSFLASH HIDE,FLASH1
and
VDSFLASH SHOW,FLASH1
“ENABLE/DISABLE RightClick”: With this command you can enable/disable the right click on the flash movie
Disable
VDSFLASH DRCLICK,FLASH1
Enable
VDSFLASH ERCLICK,FLASH1
Here ya go... thanks in advance for your feedback...
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LiquidCode
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| Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2002 2:32 am Post subject: |
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Hey. Just to let you know. It can be done now, in a way.
I have VDSElm. I have used the browser element and loaded a flash move into the window. That has worked just fine. Will the user
half to have Flash installed on there computer or does the dll run
the flash movie without it?
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marty
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| Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2002 3:26 am Post subject: |
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Yup your right, but its a browser element, with browser functionnlities (Internet Explorer only by the way). If you drop an html, jpg,etc.. on the browser element it will show tht file..and your flash disapears... With the VDS flash only DLL you would have full control of the flash file... and only a flash file could be shown and controled with the mentionned functions and commands above... And appenratly the user wouldnt need the flash plugin since the OCX would be compiled within the DLL...(to be confirmed)
And by the way thanks to everyone who voted!!! Dont stop!! Continue!
Thanks for the feedback M. LiquidCode  |
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Skit3000
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| Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2002 8:21 am Post subject: |
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| Will it be possible to create flash movies? |
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marty
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| Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2002 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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| No it won't sorry. Its only a Flash viewer/controller |
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Skit3000
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2002 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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Why isn't it possible to create Flash-movies? If you have a dll that can read, for example, Microsoft Word files, you will also be possible to create them, because the encryption for read and write is the same...
I think it's neccesary to create flash files with your dll, because not everybody want's to pay over $100 (€100) for a program you'll only use once... |
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Garrett
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2002 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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Flash files are compressed compiled files.... Reading and writing them are not the same at all in this case.
-Garrett |
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PGWARE
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2002 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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Actually it could be possible. Skit is right, if you know how to read a file then you basically have the structure of a flash file and can replicate that to write one.
BUT the way the flash files are being read is through the Flash OCX file provided by MacroMedia? They just offer an ocx you can call similar to a windows dll, which then embeds a small control on your window to view the flash files, no source code is included. |
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Skit3000
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| Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2002 9:53 am Post subject: |
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2 bad that macromedia didn't released the source code...
But if you use that Flash OCX, isn't that the same as VDSElm ?
Or do you have more options then? |
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marty
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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Like I said before the VDSFLASH isnt like a Browser element of VDSELM at all. VDSFLASH (which was done byTommy) enables you have Flash content (.SWF files) onto the VDS form. And control it easily. With a Browser element it could still be done. Create an HTML file with calling a SWF file. But you need to create some javascript to control all the functions. And also an end user could drag n drop a JPG,BMP,HTML, etc... on the browser form and your flash would be replaced by the dropped file. Not very practical.
Having multiple flash files on a form and send variables from/to VDS is cool too....
Anyway... Try the trial of VDSFLASH.EXE and you'll see what I mean. Tommy did a great job with this one as usual...
Have a good day... |
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marty
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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Also to easily create Flash content, you could use SWISH, which is really easy to use.
Check it out at http://www.swishzone.com/
Ciao |
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marty
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| Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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As of today the Flash DLL has changed owner.
I now own the copyrights of the DLL and will be releasing the updated version during next week probably.
Thank you.
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