Windows MCI Multi-Media Win32 API Integration Added!

Robert — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:42:50 -0000

With release 0.9.2 Alpha of JavaAX, we have included the Windows MCI Multi-Media Win32 API! This version of JavaAX integrates the mciSendString API... It also includes the JavaAX - Windows MCI Multi-Media Player demo. Currently it does not support Video although you can open and play a video file it is not controlled by the player! Please only use this version to play audio files.

The MCI Bridge component of the JavaAX framework can be used to add MP3, WAV, MIDI, and other audio media to your java applications using the light weight Win32 Multi-Media API. Through the MCIController wrapper class you can control your media playback using the following functions: play, stop, close (stop and unload), pause, resume, seek (rewind or fast forward). This version only supports a single media file opened at any one time. This will be fixed in the next version of JavaAX.

The MCI Bridge component of JavaAX benefits Java Windows Desktop developers, because it is easy to use. Although it does not give you all the flexibility of the JMF library, it is more simple and straight forward to use for those everyday programming tasks such as playing event sounds in your programs or playing background music in a video game. Also you will not have to have your clients install the JMF package, you simply can include the JavaAX jar and javawmm.dll native library for MCI bridging!

Happy Programming!

Windows Media Player Integration Added!

Robert — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:26:37 -0000

The initial integration of Windows Media Player into the JavaAX framework has been released. There is a problem with auto playing loaded files, but you can manually use the native Windows Media Player controls to play the Video or Music file. The JButtons (Play and Stop) work, but again there's a problem with the initial Play after the file is loaded. Until this problem is resolved, please use the native Windows Media Player Play Button for best results.

The Windows Media Player - JavaAX integration does NOT make use of the SDK from Microsoft, instead it directly imports the ActiveX control to generate the header file automatically. We are not using wmp.h!

Initial Alpha Release of JavaAX!

Robert — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:24:23 -0000

The V0.9 Alpha release of JavaAX is here! It includes a Adobe Flash 9 Demo Player integrating the Flash ActiveX component with Java Swing. (Please see screen capture.) It has been compiled with Visual C++ 6.0 and Sun JDK 1.5.0 on Windows XP 32-bit. Source and Binary available! The next phase of the project will be to clean up the Flash Bridge especially on shutdown. I'm sure the program is not cleaning up the ActiveX object. Will look into it after vacation this week! Also will be adding additional ActiveX bridges shortly! Please submit your requests for different ActiveX components you would like see bridged in JavaAX!

Also, I'm not a Java Swing programmer so it would be great if someone could join the project to help with the Java GUI aspects. Also any help on the C++ side would be greatly appreciated. Although I programming solely in C/C++ in college it was only on Unix/Linux and my professional career has been 80% Java, 10% Perl, and only 10% C on Solaris and RedHat... Definitely could use help there! Please join the project!

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