Multimedia programming for Windows / Steve Rimmer

Introduction, "Entropy isn't what it used to be." The hard part about designing computers-or about designing computer softwareis in figuring out how the whole works will deal with the people who ultimately pay for it. Far more processor time is typically required to maintain a "u...

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Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Spanish
Publicado: United Sates of America : Windcrest, ©1994
Edición:First edition
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction.
  • 1 When one medium just isn't enough. Companion CD-ROM: The biggest disk I could find.
  • Software requirements.
  • Hardware requirements.
  • Programming under Windows: Nothing is what it seems.
  • Compiler harpies and header-file gremlins.
  • Using multimedia. – 2 Playing wave files. An overview.
  • Playing sounds with MessageBeep.
  • Playing sounds with sndPlaySound.
  • RIFF files: A major digression.
  • Playing sounds with MCI calls.
  • Playing sounds with waveOut calls.
  • Getting information about wave files.
  • Getting information about wave-player devices.
  • The wave player, at last.
  • Attaching wave files to system events.
  • The ATTACH application.
  • More sounds.
  • 3 Playing audio compact discs. CD-ROM hardware: Attack of the scuzzies.
  • Of drives and drivers.
  • Playing compact disc audio.
  • MCI calls and compact discs.
  • The compact disc player application.
  • Compact disc Applications.
  • 4 Displaying and animating bitmaps. Bitmapped graphics.
  • Dithering: The fine art of cheating.
  • Creating dithered images with Graphic Workshop.
  • Windows bitmap structures.
  • Displaying bitmaps.
  • A BMP file viewer.
  • Displaying multiple bitmaps in one window.
  • Some Windows animation: Murphy hears a cheese wrapper Bigger graphics.
  • 5 Viewing Kodak photo-CD imagess. Understanding photo CDs.
  • Using the photo-CD software development toolkit.
  • Using photo-CD thumbnails.
  • Getting information about photo-CD images.
  • Exporting photo-CD images.
  • The PCDVIEW application.
  • Extending photo-CD Applications.
  • 6 Playing MIDI files. Playing MIDI music.
  • Understanding MIDI files.
  • The MIDIPLAY application.
  • More MIDI.
  • Viewing Video for Windows AVI files.
  • Playing AVI files.
  • Getting information about AVI files.
  • The AVIPLAY application.
  • It's a wrap. – Index.
  • About the Author.