DevX Tips Bank: Multimedia Processing

Minimizing Flicker in Animation

Flickering in animation is caused due to the default behavior ...

Animating the Window on Showing or Hiding

You can easily add animation when showing or hiding a window using the AnimateWindow …

Determine the total playing time of an Audio CD

The Microsoft Multimedia Control lets you easily determine the total playing time of an …

Draw Lines in a List View

This code adds the appearance of a grid control to a traditional listview, drawing …

Retrieve the length of a media file (WAV, AVI, MIDI)

You can retrieve the length of a standard windows media file (WAV, AVI or MIDI) using …

Calling the CD-Rom

I would like to know how to call the CD-Rom, or rather search for its drive letter.

A better beep

If you aren't satisfied with the standard Beep command (who is?) you can use the Beep API …

Balloon Labels

How you to make balloon labels show when the user moves the mouse over an object?

Produce Shrinking Text

Use this code to get the shrinking text effect—similar to the opening of Star ...

Load UI Graphics From the Resource File

Many VB programmers haven't harnessed the power of VB6's resource editor. They still use …

Use Screen-Saver Passwords

When you write a screen saver in C and the Windows SDK, a static library (SCRNSAVE.lib) …

PlayAVIAudioOFF - Play an AVI file without the audio track

Play an AVI file synchronously without the audio track. FileName is a string containing …

PlayAVIVideoOFF - Play only the audio track of an AVI file

Play the audio track of an AVI file. FileName is a string containing the full path of the …

PlayWAV - Play a WAV file

Play a WAV file. FileName is a string containing the full path of the file. If SyncExec is …

SetVolume - Set the master volume level

Set the master volume level. VolumeLevel is the level value in percentage (0 = min, 100 = …