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SWF Scout ActiveX/NET library
How to create SWF flash movie using
SWF Scout library in ASP ( "Hello, World!" example)
You can download the source code of this example here: swfscout_asp.zip
This page provides a quick guide for generating of SWF flash animation movie using SWF Scout library in ASP
IMPORTANT NOTE: To use SWF Scout library
on the web-server you have to have additional "Web License"
SWF Scout is capable of
generating in-memory SWF files and so generated file needn't to
be stored as a file on a hard drive and can be streamed right
into the browser window.
Library has the special
"GenerateInMemoryFile"
property for such purposes. You can set this flag to TRUE
and the library will generate and keep SWF flash movie as in-memory
stream.
1)
Install SWF Scout
library on your computer and create an "CreateSimpleSWF.asp"
file in the notepad.
CreateSimpleSWF.asp
will generate SWF
file and return it as a stream.
Insert the following code
into "CreateSimpleSWF.asp"
<%
W = 640 '
width
H = 480 '
height
Set
Movie = CreateObject("SWFScout.FlashMovie")
Movie.InitLibrary
"demo", "demo"
Movie.BeginMovie
0, 0, W, H, 1, 12, 6
Movie.Compressed
= true
Movie.GenerateInMemoryFile
= True
Movie.SetBackgroundColor
255, 255, 255 '
set background color to white
Font = Movie.AddFont("Arial",
18, True,
False,
False,
False,
0) ' add font
'
create and place text
Text = Movie.AddText("Hello,
World!", 0, 0, 0, 255, Font, 0, 100, 250, 160)
Movie.PlaceText
Text, Movie.CurrentMaxDepth '
place text into current depth
Movie.PLACE_FadeOut
0.5 ' fade out
text
Shape = Movie.AddShape
' add new shape
Movie.SHAPE_Rectangle
0, 140, 150, 285 '
draw rectangle
Movie.SHAPE_SetSolidColor
50, 255, 50, True,
255 ' set solid
fill for shape
Movie.PlaceShape
Shape, Movie.CurrentMaxDepth '
place shape into current depth
Movie.ShowFrame
10 ' show 10 frames
Movie.EndMovie
' end movie generation
'
get generated SWF as binary image
SWFfImage
= Movie.BinaryImage
'
clear the output stream
response.Clear
'
set the content type to SWF
response.ContentType
= "application/x-shockwave-flash"
'
add content type header
response.AddHeader
"Content-Type", "application/x-shockwave-flash"
'
set the content disposition
response.AddHeader
"Content-Disposition", "inline;filename=shapes.swf"
'
write the binary image to the Response output stream
response.BinaryWrite
SWFImage
response.End
'
disconnect from library
Set
Movie = Nothing
%>
2)
Now use Notepad
to create HTML file that will display a flash movie animation,
"HelloWorld.html".
Insert the following HTML code into "HelloWorld.html":
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Hello,
World!</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#ffffff">
<CENTER>
<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0"
ID="SWF" WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%" VIEWASTEXT>
<PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="CreateSimpleSWF.asp">
<PARAM NAME="quality" VALUE="best">
<PARAM NAME="bgcolor" VALUE="#ffffff">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>
</CENTER>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Place both "CreateSimpleSWF.asp"
and "HelloWorld.asp"
files into the same folder on web-server. (This folder is C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\
by default in IIS
on Windows 2000 and XP)
3)
Now open "http://localhost/HelloWorld.asp"
(or "http://<your_webserver_name>/HelloWorld.asp")
in Internet Explorer
browser. You will see the generated flash movie in a browser window:
You can download the source code of this
example here: swfscout_asp.zip
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