Alot of people are wanting to embed flash object,movies or video streams into thier applications these days. I’m going to show some examples and tips & tricks of using the Shockwave Flash object and namespace. VB.NET and the Shockwave object can be very powerful. I’ve used it in several applications including my ‘uStreamer” viewer application.
First things first. Right click on your toolbox and click “Choose Items”. Scroll down and choose the Shockwave Flash Player Object. From your toolbox add a Shockwave Flash control to your form.
To load a movie use the following code. You can specify a url or path using the ‘LoadMovie’ modifer. The first variable, 0, specifies the layer. The layer is not that important to us in the sense of coding with the control. Use the layer ’0′.
AxShockwaveFlash1.LoadMovie(0, "yourmovie.swf")
The ‘AllowFullScreen’ modifier comes in handy when dealing with movies that try to take over and go fullscreen. You can choose from boolean True/Flase.
AxShockwaveFlash1.AllowFullScreen = True
The ‘StopPlay’ modifier is used to stop the current play state. This is not the same as the ‘Stop’ modifier. Using ‘Stop’ will cause the control to stop it’s current process. Using ‘StopPlay’ will stop the current movie as the current frame.
AxShockwaveFlash1.StopPlay()
I have Shockwave Flash object embedded in my VB.net app, and can get a stream to load using the LoadMoivie method. However, if a movie is playing, and i call the LoadMovie method a second or more time, It errors out giving me a built in error dialog about mal-formed XML… any help would be greatly apprecieated!
try loading a null value first. LoadMovie(0,”"); then try loading the url/file. If this doesn’t work try creating the control programmatically and use the dispose method when done with one stream.
I’m using visual studio 2008, I have Abode flashplayer installed but I can’t seem to find the shockwave flash object control in visual studio. Any ideas why?
I am having the ame problem that can’t get the shockwave object to show up in the tool bar.
Try looking at the bottom of the control box. It’s name should appear as “Shockwave Factory Object”
try to click choose items in my vb2008 and then my vb2008 just flashes and wont do anything -.-