[Gambas-user] Re: Gambas and media files

[Benoit Minisini]

Le Jeudi 17 Juillet 2003 05:51, Rob a écrit :
> On Monday 14 July 2003 13:39, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> > But you can play videos in Gambas with mplayer this way:
> > 1) Create a form with a void Label named lblMPlayer, for example.
> > 2) Do: EXEC [ "mplayer", "-wid", lblMPlayer.Id, "myvideo.avi" ]
>
> I just tried to do this, but (at least in Gambas 0.62) controls don't have
> the Id property.
>
> Also, I made a form and used it like a control in another form, and when I
> looked at its Id property it was zero.  When I display the form on its own
> it gets an Id (in the 4 million range) and when I start the mplayer
> process, that form blinks for a second, and you can hear the sound from
> mplayer, but the video doesn't seem to make it into the form window.
>
> It's all right to display mplayer in its own window for now for what I'm
> doing, but it sounds like the Id property stuff might be a little funny
> right now.
>
> Rob
>

Don't worry, it will work in the next version. Mainly because this version HAS 
this Id property :-)

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini
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