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...
| Format: | Book |
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| Language: | Spanish |
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United Sates of America :
Windcrest,
©1994
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| Edition: | First edition |
Table of Contents:
- 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.