Choice of Music?

July 18, 2008 at 5:38 am (Achievement, Obstacles) ()

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Music Concept

July 18, 2008 at 3:37 am (Achievement, Concepts, Obstacles) (, , )

Well, after sharing my little secret on how to add music and video with ease, i decided to add some background music into my program. to do this i need a form that will always be “hiden” i.e: always at the back of any other form. after this i can use my web browser to play music from a specific file that will naturally loop throughout the whole program.

This the implementation of background music i thought that it would be appropriate to include a mute and unmute button in my side bar menu; meaning an extra  2 functionality buttons!

in order to achieve a mute and unmute button, instead of actually doing what it says to do, because my music is within a web browser, if i change the url of the web browser, then the music would “stop” and if i re assign the url back to the music’s file path, it would seem to continue playing the music.. a much easier solution compared to actually using the difficult coding of changing the computers master volume!

another genuis short cut when using a web browser!

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Private Sub mutevolume_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles

mutevolume.Click

Dim navmute As String = “”

musicbackgroundweb.musicmaker.Navigate(navmute)

End Sub

Private Sub about_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles

about.ClickAboutfbiic.Show()

 End Sub

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Music/Video Concept – A way around Windows Media PLayer

July 18, 2008 at 3:25 am (Achievement, Concepts) (, , )

Well, im going to share a little secret that i have been brewing up for some time now; a way around the hassles and limits of the Windows Media Player Control!

With the help of flash, you can change any media format into a .swf file: e.g: i have a .avi movie, i want to change it into a .swf file, simply import video into a flash project, change some frame rates and other options you want, and then export out as a .swf file

But what does a .swf file mean to me in vb??

it means that YOU as a programmer dont need to use windows media player any more to play movies!

All you need now is a simple web browser! a control that requires no code to get your movie (in a .swf format) playing in your vb.net application!

With my home brew genius concept, i decided to PUT this into PRACTISE, and achieved the ability to easily add mp3 music, and video to any of my forms with easeeeee!

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