Movies in fullsreen

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 4:42 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by merendo.

I donÂ´t want to create a window before I can watch a movie. IÂ´m going to code a little game, and want to play the intro-avi in fullscreen. How to do this without opening a window??? Thx, merendo

We always need to hear both sides of the story (by Phil Collins)

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 7:22 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Paul.

You could use MCI commands to play your video without having to create a window. (I find MPEG-I works better than AVI and you don't need any special codec's on the endusers system)

*Result = GlobalAlloc_(#GMEM_FIXED, 256)
If MciSendString_("open vid.avi alias videoclip",*result,256,0)=0
MciSendString_("play videoclip fullscreen wait",*result,256,0)
MciSendString_("close videoclip",*result,256,0)
EndIf

vid.avi is the name of the video file in the same folder as your APP.

Edited by - paul on 23 March 2002 19:23:08

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 8:44 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by fred.

Use ScreenID() instead of WindowID() on your screen..

Fred - AlphaSND

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Sat Mar 30, 2002 5:49 am

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by merendo.

Paul & Fred: Both thank you for your help. IÂ´ll will check if your sollutions work. By merendo

We always need to hear both sides of the story (by Phil Collins)