F-IN-BOX Blog

F-IN-BOX Delphi Edition 3.4.2 is available

Artem Razin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:13:00 +0000

We’ve added builds for Delphi / Builder C++ 2009 with UPDATE 1.

F-IN-BOX Delphi Edition 3.4.1 is available

Artem Razin — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:20:50 +0000

An update which is important for developers who use Builder C++. Using old version of f-in-box, Builder C++ added incorrect declarations for events which have parameters with “out” keyword. It just ignored “out”! That’s why we decided to change declarations of these events to make Builder C++ working with the events properly.

The events are:
OnLoadExternalResourceAsync and OnLoadExternalResourceEx

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F-IN-BOX .Net Edition 3.1.3 is available

Artem Razin — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:54:03 +0000

The problem (thank you, benben2301!) with f_in_box__form and ContextMenuStrip has been fixed.

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F-IN-BOX Delphi Edition 3.4 is available

Artem Razin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:00:57 +0000

New event OnLoadExternalResourceAsync and global handler SetGlobalLoadExternalResourceAsync, new way to provide FLV content
Right-click menu issue has been fixed: thank you, jpierce!
Delphi 2009 and Builder 2009 is fully supported
Flash 10 is fully supported
New good sample SampleA_FLVPlayer:
- how to play FLV from TStream, a file, an URL, a RTMP source
- autoplay
- fullscreen mode is available
- set audio volume / mute mode
- events: FLV is ready to play, it has stopped and so on

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F-IN-BOX DLL Edition 3.3.1 is ready

Artem Razin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:56:55 +0000

[FIXED] incorrect processing WM_IME_* messages. When you enter symbols on, for example, Korean kanguage, they are broken, f-in-box shows them incorrectly. The bug has been fixed in this release.

F-IN-BOX Delphi Edition 3.3.3

Artem Razin — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:08:19 +0000

F-IN-BOX Delphi Edition 3.3.3 is available now.

A GDI leak in transparent mode fixed: see here to read description of the problem (thank you, luckmstone!)
Delphi 2009 / Builder C++ 2009 is supported now!

F-IN-BOX Delphi Edition 3.3.2

Artem Razin — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:48:33 +0000

FIXED: If SetGlobalOnLoadExternalResourceHandler is called, the movies are not loading correctly from external URLs.

F-IN-BOX Delphi Edition 3.3.1

Artem Razin — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:07:32 +0000

AllowFullscreen supported now.

F-IN-BOX .NET Edition 3.1.1 is ready

Artem Razin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:34:42 +0000

AllowFullscreen supported now

F-IN-BOX .NET Edition: How To Grab Frames From A Flash Movie

Artem Razin — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:31:37 +0000

One customer wrote me:

Why GetBitmap method consums so much processor time.
It’s 720×576 25fps simple movie with 40-60% processor time.
I’m making a call to GetBitmap without any further processing.

Actually, GetBitmap is not a good way when you need to grab frames from a movie quickly. So, what is the best way?

Use f_in_box__control, set TransparentMode = true, then handle OnFlashPaint event, for example:

[DllImport("Kernel32.dll", EntryPoint = "RtlMoveMemory")] 
private static extern void CopyMemory(IntPtr Destination, IntPtr Source, int Length); 

private void flashControl1_OnFlashPaint(object sender, IntPtr pPixelPointer) 
{ 
  if (videoOut != null) 
  { 
      BitmapData bmd = videoOut.VideoBitmap.LockBits(new Rectangle(0, 0, 720, 576), ImageLockMode.WriteOnly, PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb);
      int StrideSize = 720 * 4;
      for (int i = 0; i < 576; i++)
      {
        IntPtr s = new IntPtr(pPixelPointer.ToInt32()+StrideSize * i);
        IntPtr d = new IntPtr(bmd.Scan0.ToInt32() + (StrideSize * (575 - i)));
        CopyMemory(d, s, StrideSize);
      }
      videoOut.PixelPointer = bmd.Scan0;
      videoOut.VideoBitmap.UnlockBits(bmd);
  }
}