Quick Question
Saturday, February 25, 2006 by jlaj1989 | Discussion: DesktopX
I have a quick question. What are all the things i can control with the media player active x control in desktop x. I know the basics play, pause, etc... But what are ALL the things i can control. Thanks 
jlaj1989
Reply #2 Saturday, February 25, 2006 3:08 PM
Reply #2 Saturday, February 25, 2006 3:08 PM
i just want to now all the functions i can do with the active x controller.
ZubaZ
Reply #3 Saturday, February 25, 2006 3:51 PM
Reply #3 Saturday, February 25, 2006 3:51 PM
OK . . . googleing Windows Media Player ActiveX control grabbed some good info. So did creating an object and loading the control. You can see right away what it supports.
The DXplugin has many more features . . . but if you are tied to WMP . . there you go.
I guess I'm no immediate help.
The DXplugin has many more features . . . but if you are tied to WMP . . there you go.
I guess I'm no immediate help.
rabidrobot
Reply #4 Saturday, February 25, 2006 6:54 PM
Reply #4 Saturday, February 25, 2006 6:54 PM
It is difficult to answer your question, because it is unclear what you are talking about.
Do you mean the Windows Media Player ActiveX control, or the DXPlayer plug-in?
The WMP ActiveX control allows you to do anything WMP can do (and any way you want to do it) except, as far as I know, choose visualization schemes. Here is an entrance to the maze they call the Windows Media Player Object Model: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmplay10/mmp_sdk/windowsmediaplayeractivexcontrol.asp
The DXPlayer has both benefits and drawbacks over the WMP ActiveX control, or any other control (such as one for Winamp, for example). The main benefits are ease of use and it works with several different media player applications. Primary drawbacks are limited and somewhat bizzarre playlist control and functions that are present, but not actually fully implemented (you can get a media window to open, but not position or resize it).
The best way to learn, in my opinion, is to find widgets that have functions similar to what you want to achieve, and to see how they do it.
Do you mean the Windows Media Player ActiveX control, or the DXPlayer plug-in?
The WMP ActiveX control allows you to do anything WMP can do (and any way you want to do it) except, as far as I know, choose visualization schemes. Here is an entrance to the maze they call the Windows Media Player Object Model: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmplay10/mmp_sdk/windowsmediaplayeractivexcontrol.asp
The DXPlayer has both benefits and drawbacks over the WMP ActiveX control, or any other control (such as one for Winamp, for example). The main benefits are ease of use and it works with several different media player applications. Primary drawbacks are limited and somewhat bizzarre playlist control and functions that are present, but not actually fully implemented (you can get a media window to open, but not position or resize it).
The best way to learn, in my opinion, is to find widgets that have functions similar to what you want to achieve, and to see how they do it.
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Reply #1 Saturday, February 25, 2006 2:00 PM
From the documentation:
You can define what happens when the user interacts with the object, even to the degree of whether they are holding down any keys.
In some cases images are needed and you can define them here as well such as gauges for volume etc.
I'm not going into the detail of the plugin here. Check out the player widget that comes by default with DesktopX to see what can be achieved with this plugin.