Re: Flash Movie

Well I came up with this so far: I'm not 100% comfortable with it.

LSFlashPlayerWnd is derived from CWnd and holds the Flash ActiveX
control. It gets created by who ever needs to display a flash movie. The
reason it is a seperate window and not just using the activex directly is
because I needed to setup timers for progress and stop notifications back
to the parent.

Anyway, I simply show the ActiveX control for a second, and copy what is
in its DC.

void LSFlashPlayerWnd::CopyToBitmap()
{
  CRect WRect;
  GetWindowRect(&WRect);
  GetParent()->ScreenToClient(&WRect);

  //since this window is normally hidden, unless the video is being
played
  //show the window, so that we can copy the image off of it.
  ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);

  //make sure the player window is drawn
  m_Player.Invalidate();
  m_Player.UpdateWindow();

  //get the dc of the player
  CDC *pDC = m_Player.GetDC();

  //create the bitmap
  CDC MemDC;
  MemDC.CreateCompatibleDC(pDC);
  m_Bitmap.DeleteObject();
  m_Bitmap.CreateCompatibleBitmap(pDC,WRect.Width(),WRect.Height());

  //copy into the bitmap
  int SavedDC = MemDC.SaveDC();
  MemDC.SelectObject(&m_Bitmap);
  MemDC.BitBlt(0,0,WRect.Width(),WRect.Height(),pDC,0,0,SRCCOPY);
  MemDC.RestoreDC(SavedDC);

  //release the DC of the player
  m_Player.ReleaseDC(pDC);

  //and hide it again
  ShowWindow(SW_HIDE);
}

AliR.

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