Macromedia Flash, C#, CF 2.0

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Steve Howard

Can anyone point me towards a successful solution to embedding Flash content
in a CF 2 application using C#?

Web searches seem to all show up plenty of threads that say 'this might
work' by embedding an html page with a swf file. I don't see anywhere that
says 'this actually will work'. Given my inexperience I could take days
discovering it won't work thinking maybe I am doing it wrong ... :-)


TIA


Steve
 
It's COM based, so it will work - that's how it plugs into IE. It'll still
probably take you a few days to get it, but the effort won't be for nothing.

-Chris
 
It's COM based, so it will work - that's how it plugs into IE. It'll
still probably take you a few days to get it, but the effort won't be for
nothing.
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Well, I had thought that it would be as simple as doing it in other tools -
embed the browser control, point to a web page and voila. But if you think
it will take me a few days, and since no one has posted a definitive
solution anywhere, then there must be a catch.

You say it's COM based, so is that the catch? Does that mean I can't do
something as simple as I just outlined? Am I going to have to, for instance,
delve into a C wrapper? Or am I misunderstanding what I read?

I'd like to crack this, but I have a limited timescale and Flash is not an
essential part of the project, so if I have to abandon it for other
priorities I will.


Thanks again Chris.

Steve
 
Adding a COM control is not a simple drag and drop operation. It takes a
bit of work to get the hosting (Alex Feinman's got some great examples out
there, including a webcast). If you've not done it before, it's likely to
take a couple of days to get it all put together.

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Take a look ath my blog:
Alex - that's excellent thank you! You perfectly summarise what I was
expecting the process should be. I'll be trying this later today, and I'll
mail back if I encounter any problems.
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OK I tried this and it worked first time :-)

It looked for a while like the webBrowser was stuck at full screen until I
realised I had to change the Dock property to None before I could resize and
reposition the control.


Thanks again Alex.


Steve
 
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