Windows-media-player-stylee-buffered-slider-progress-bar thingy wanted

[cglaurence]

Thanks for reading this...

I am looking for a Windows-media-player-stylee-buffered-slider-progress-bar thingy that I can embed in my own apps.

Do you know where I can find one.

Any help/leads much appreciated.

Regards

Laurence

[pareshgh]

if you are concerned with windows media player control or which has something like you mentioned.
you can extened WMP.dll which is in your system directory. search for it under winnt or windows folder.
you can add that control by adding reference in your project. or by toolbox.

when you
1) right click on customize toolbox
2) under COM components select browse and select that windows media player dll from the windows folder.
3) drag N drop the control

you may get some method hints from this control you can hide control and make your own app which can use these function and play media files.

let me know this helps to you,
Paresh

[cglaurence]

This is a great start...

A little too much functionality, though.

All I really need is something that has the design abstraction of a progress bar combined with a trackbar, that allows me to control the two seperately (exactly like the control of Windows Explorer).

Cause this is for a corporate client, I don't think Ill get away with
using the MP. However, it might be my only choice if I cant find anything else.

Many thanks

Laurence

[pareshgh]

every thing what you will find on net like free samples or something that will have someproblems here and there. now the thing is you will need to make the GUI on your own and then use WMP's functionality. so by doing this you are not depending on 3'rd party dlls and you are not purchasing any s/w.
its just that you will be using windows functionality. you can hide the control anyways..

-Paresh

[WillemM]

Long Live DirectX 9,

There's a class included in the managed directX things. AudioVideoPlayback has the functionality to playback audio and video. This class doesn't have any visual things, so you can make the visual part yourself
I used that to make something like mediaplayer, but a lot smaller and less memory-consuming

[pareshgh]

yes you can use DirectX. the quick sol would be loading wmp.
but DirectX can really help you at making graphics animations, and media dealing...

paresh