Playing Video in a Dialog

[Michael Stahl]

On 17/04/14 11:23, Fernand Vanrie wrote:
> On The French user site i found usefull code to play video on Windows 
> using the API and Basic.
> 
> The code opens a MediaWindow and play any video
> 
> The player has a undocumented method "CreatePlayerWindow" who needs 
> arguments (a empty array do crash LO)
> 
> Do someone knows how to use this method and how Video can been played in 
> a Dialog ?

hi Fernand,

let's see...

avmedia/source/win/window.cxx:
> bool Window::create( const uno::Sequence< uno::Any >& rArguments )
> {
>     IVideoWindow* pVideoWindow = const_cast< IVideoWindow* >( mrPlayer.getVideoWindow() );
>     WNDCLASS* mpWndClass = lcl_getWndClass();
> 
>     if( !mnFrameWnd && pVideoWindow && mpWndClass )
>     {
>         awt::Rectangle  aRect;
>         sal_IntPtr       nWnd;
> 
>         rArguments[ 0 ] >>= nWnd;
>         rArguments[ 1 ] >>= aRect;
> 
>         mnParentWnd = static_cast<int>(nWnd);
> 

so on Windows, parameters are a HWND of the parent and a rectangle...
probably the parameters are undocumented for a reason, very
system-dependent and subject to change without notice.  also i have no
idea how you can get a window's HWND from BASIC code.