RE: FLASH: Visual Basic and Flash

[Brian McHarg]

Paul,


You should be able to pass variables back to VB using FSCommand.  Here is a

piece of code that I wrote to open up an Acrobat PDF file from within a

Flash movie.  This uses the shell command to use the appropriate registered

application to open the document.  The important thing for you is that

within the If command = "pdf" section, the variable args is exactly what is

passed from the Flash movie, so it would be possible to parse the string

that is passed to make as many variables as you require (in this case just

the one, namely the filename of the PDF file).


Private Sub Flash1_FSCommand(ByVal command As String, ByVal args As String)

    

  If command = "exit" Then

    Flash1.Stop

    Form1.Hide

    End

  End If


  If command = "pdf" Then

    args = CStr(CurDir) + args

    retval = ShellExecute(Form1.hwnd, "open", args, "",

"c:\",sw_showmaximized)

  End If


End Sub


Hope this helps.


One thing that I was wondering though, is if there is a way to emebed the

Flash movie fully into the Visual Basic program.  So much so that, when you

compile the VB program to program.exe, the Flash movie is contained inside

the exe, rather than having to distribute a SWF file along with the EXE.

Does anyone know if this is possible, and if so, how?


TIA


B.



-----Original Message-----

From: Paul Watson [

Paulretailradio [dot] co [dot] za (mailto:Paulretailradio [dot] co [dot] za)

]

Sent: 16 November 1999 07:38

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Subject: FLASH: Visual Basic and Flash



Ok this is a slightly strange question but here goes


Seeing as Flash is just so incredible I have been itching to incorporate

it into more than just websites and corporate intranets. I would like to

basically implement flash screen's within Visual Basic applications. I

could use the web functionality of VB6 and receive variables back from

flash but this requires that the user either has IIS/PWS on their

machine or runs my application through a browser window and use DHTML

which is not what I want at all. 


So if anyone knows how to take variables from a flash project and send

them to a visual basic project please tell me. I already know how to

insert a flash object into VB - very easy with Macromedia's supplied

ActiveX control's - but I want to take it a step further.


Thank you


Paul Watson


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