Animation control help

[george7378]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to get the hang of Win32 animation controls, which, as I understand, are used to display .avi files in a dialog box. I've used Resedit to create a dialog box and place an animation control in it, and my program runs fine, but now I don't know how to get the animation into the control.

So, Resedit has created a resource file which looks like this:

#include <windows.h>
#include <commctrl.h>
#include <richedit.h>
#include "resource.h"


LANGUAGE LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL
IDD_MAIN DIALOG 0, 0, 394, 283
STYLE DS_3DLOOK | DS_CENTER | DS_MODALFRAME | DS_SHELLFONT | WS_CAPTION | WS_VISIBLE | WS_POPUP | WS_SYSMENU
CAPTION "Dialog"
FONT 8, "Ms Shell Dlg"
BEGIN
    CONTROL         "", IDD_ANIMATION, ANIMATE_CLASS, WS_BORDER, 10, 6, 373, 266
END

My question is - where do I define the name/path of the .avi file that I want to put in the control? Is it between the two quote marks at the beginning of the CONTROL?

Thanks for your help!!

[adeyblue]

You don't. You use Animate_Open() with the file/resource name and the other macros to play/seek/stop etc. Note that there are severe restrictions on what type of AVI it can play. For support for fancier avi's, try the MCIWnd window class instead

[george7378]

Oh, I've been looking at that, but I don't know how to use it - when I type this:

Animate_Open(IDD_ANIMATION, "fun.avi");

...I get a compiler error saying that:

'SendMessageA' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'int' to 'HWND'

I can see why this might happen (it's designed to take a HWND, after all), but I don't know what to do about it - which HWND should I use, assuming that I load the animation control using a resource file like I did in the first post?

Thanks!

[adeyblue]

Use GetDlgItem(hwndDlg, IDD_ANIMATION); to get the handle to the animation control, then pass that to the macros.

[george7378]

Ah, thanks a lot!