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F-IN-BOX DLL Edition 3.1 is ready


What’s new

  • New notification FPCN_PAINT_STAGE. It’s useful when you need to modify movie background or paint something over already painted movie. With FPCN_PAINT_STAGE you can simulate transparency for f-in-box created as a child control. See sample Samples\MFC\Sample09_TransparentControl
  • Sound capturing. It demonstrates how to save flash sound as a WAV file. See function FPC_SetSoundListener
    Also see sample Samples\MFC\Sample10_SoundRecorder.
  • URL preprocessing. It’s useful when you need to replace an URL that flash uses. For example, a movie has link to something. When an user click to the link, your callback is called. You can cancel the loading or change URL. See function FPC_SetPreProcessURLHandler

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F-IN-BOX .Net Edition 3.0.11 is ready


What’s new:

  • New event OnPaintStage
  • Some samples are improved
  • New sample Sample9_TransparentControl
  • Help is improved

Bugfixes:

  • Problem with blocking the finalizer queue fixed

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How to get a width and a height from an SWF


Many users ask me how to get dimensions of a movie. The answer is simple: just decode an SWF header. All Macromedia Flash (SWF) files begin with the following header (see SWF specification for more information):…(click to read more)


We’ve opened the F-IN-BOX blog


F-IN-BOX has a big history. We have forum, support form, but we’ve decided to become more public. That’s why we are starting this blog. We are going to post news about new releases, tips and tricks, common tasks which you can solve with F-IN-BOX and so on here.