Hello,

Has anyone embedded the Windows Media Player within a box? What I need to know is how to set properties for this or any other OCX.

I already have been able to display the WMP within the box. but am not able to set and properties.

I am using VS2005 Pro "C++" and MFC.

Thanks!

Rolando

Thanks for the reply. Your code did work after minor change to it. Here is the change:

fcx.SetAxControlId(_T("WMPlayer.OCX")); - rather than using "fcx." it should be "box."

At least that is what I had to do to get the code working!

Now, the programming you present here is, I hate to admit is a little advanced for me. Based on what I read, am I to understand that this is a way to get a pointer to the Player object in order to work with it? I suppose I would write similar code in order to get other WMP object pointers so I can deal with Playlists and Media objects. Is this a correct assumption on my part?

Also, I suppose would this be the way to embed a Flash object and have the contents playback? 

Thanks for the help.

Rolando

I stand corrected. I did not realize this is what you were doing within your sample code. 

I suppose this is exactly what I would need to do in order to embed other object (Flash, Shackwave) into a box.

Rolando

I really can't figure this one out. I hope you can help. ???

I now have the Windows Media Player within a box and all works fine. The chart with the embedded player was loaded from a file.

Now, when I open another chart with another embedded WMP control the program crashes and I can't seem to locate the problem. All I know is that the program stack reports the problem originating within the ClearAll method. I've included the code below...

Here is the code - pretty straight foward stuff:
[code]
static char BASED_CODE szFilter[] = "VMLayEd Files (*.vml)|*.vml||";

// Create an Open dialog; the default file name extension is ".my".
CFileDialog fileDlg (TRUE, "vml", "untitled.vml",
OFN_LONGNAMES | OFN_PATHMUSTEXIST | OFN_HIDEREADONLY, szFilter, this);

if (fileDlg.DoModal() == IDOK)
{
strFileName = fileDlg.GetPathName();
m_FlowCtrl.ClearAll();
m_FlowCtrl.LoadFromFile(strFileName);
m_btnSave.EnableWindow(FALSE);

GetDocument()->SetTitle(fileDlg.GetFileName());
GetDocument()->SetModifiedFlag(FALSE);
}[/code]

This was not discussed in the previous messages of this thread but, is there anything I need to do when clearing a chart that contains an embedded ActiveX control?

As always, thanks for your help.

Rolando

Alright, that fixed the problem. 

Thanks so much for you assistance.

Rolando