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Title |
Building an AVI file into the Executable
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Summary |
How to make a AVI file available at run time and compiled directly into the executable. This is useful for such things as logos. |
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Contributor |
John McTainsh
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Published |
8-Sep-2000 |
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Last updated |
8-Sep-2000 |
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Description.
Displaying an animation during long operations can stop the user
thinking the application has crashed. This is simular to the file moving
from folder to folder during a long copy request in windows explorer.
Solution.
- In the IDE add a resource symbol called
IDAVI_LOGO.
- To do this Select View->Resource Symbols¢Î>New.
- Place the AVI file into the
MyApplication\Res directory.
- Add the AVI file to VSS.
- Add the following line to
MyApplication.rc2
(In this example the AVI file is called LoadCell.
IDAVI_LOGO AVI res\LoadCell.Avi
- Where the AVI is to be played place the following code. Note in
this example the AVI has been created as
m_AnimateLogo.
m_AnimateLogo.Open( IDAVI_LOGO );
m_AnimateLogo.Play( 0, -1, -1 );
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