#animator player
Well Sam, I have to say that I don't agree with your assessment regarding
the Autodesk Windows Developers Kit. Calling the .animation property from
Visual Basic gives me the flexibility to play FLI, FLC and AAS files of any
dimension anywhere on the screen. I can play .AAS scripts directly from VB
with the full screen driver and I have only a minor glitch in that the -F
parameter doesn't force full screen until the second line of the script.
True -F does take the whole screen black and center it but big deal. Why
would you want to use the MCI function call when you call the AAPLAY library
directly?
Please download my BROWZ.ZIP from DL 9 and check it out. In the GLOBAL.BAS
file you will find a declaration for the Windows function to convert twips
(the windows screen measurement unit) into pixels (the measurement unit
returned by animation.animheight/width.
My latest version of the BROWZer plays .AAS, MID, WAV and has CDAUDIO
support. My only gripes with the toolkit are:
o no GIF support
o No example of calling AANOTIFY so that ANIMFRAME events can be
generated.
Apparently a new Windows Developement Kit is in Beta. In someways my being
in the UK helps because I can deal with the folks at Autodesk Europe who I
have found to be gracious, responsive and technically competent.