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Message       barrytraver           Post subject: Changing Movie Picture Size 
using MoviePlayer in RBPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:01 am                        
Joined: Fri Sep 30, 2005 1:53 pm
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Location: Philadelphia, PA              I can change the window size and/or the 
movieplayer size, but I cannot figure out how to change the size of the movie 
picture size using RB code.

Making a program to play movies is simple:  start a new Project, add a 
MoviePlayer control, and put this code in Window1.Open:

Code:Dim f as FolderItem
Dim m as Movie
f=GetOpenFolderItem(FileTypes1.WMVfiletype)
m=f.OpenasMovie
moviePlayer1.movie=m
moviePlayer1.Play

(For this particular code to work, of course, you also have to define 
FileTypes1 so that FileTypes1.WMVfiletype will mean that only files with a 
".wmv" file extension will be listed.)

The program loads in and plays the movie, but sometimes the movie picture is 
not much bigger than the size of a postage stamp.  (That's a bit of an 
exaggeration, but you get the idea.)  How do I change the size of the movie 
picture in RB?

It's not difficult to maximize to "full screen" the size of the window or the 
size of the movieplayer, BUT so far I have not found a way to maximize (or make 
ANY change in) the size of the movie picture itself using RB code.  Any advice 
for me?

I know that the Windows Media Player knows how to do it, because if you run my 
RB program, the movie plays, and if you then double-click on the movie picture, 
then the window, the movieplayer, AND the movie picture are ALL maximized to 
full screen.  But what RB code can I use to do the same thing without making 
the user double-click on the movie picture?

I have an uncomfortable feeling that the only RB solution is to make use of the 
RB equivalent of some Windows API call.  (I say "uncomfortable," because I have 
not found the supposedly "comprehensive" Windows API guru Dan Appleman to be of 
much help with multimedia-type things.)

Bottom line question:  Is there any way using RB code to change the picture 
size of a movie being played with the RB movieplayer (which -- in the case of 
Windows -- is built on the Windows Media Player)?  If so, what is it?

Thanks in advance for any help anyone may offer on this.

Barry Traver   
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