Visual C++ and MFC Programming 2nd Edition

Chapter 16: Text-Based Controls Visual C++ and MFC Fundamentals

If you dynamically created the control, you should make sure that the control is destroyed

when its parent also is. This is usually taken care of with the delete operator as done

above. Furthermore, when it comes to the Animator control, after using it, to free the

memory space it space, you should call the CAnimateCtrl::Close() method. Its syntax

is:

BOOL Close();

Practical Learning: Playing a Video File

1. In the OnInitDialog() event of the dialog class, load the video with the following line
   of code:

BOOL CAnimation1Dlg::OnInitDialog()

{

CDialog::OnInitDialog();

SetIcon(m_hIcon, TRUE); // Set big icon

SetIcon(m_hIcon, FALSE); // Set small icon

// TODO: Add extra initialization here

m_Animateur.Open("C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual

Studio\\Common\\Graphics\\Videos\\FileDel.AVI");

return TRUE; // return TRUE unless you set the focus to a control

}

2. To close and destroy the animation when the user closes the dialog box, add a
   WM_CLOSE message to the dialog box and implement it as follows:

void CAnimation1Dlg::OnClose()

{

// TODO: Add your message handler code here and/or call default

m_Animator.Stop();

m_Animator.Close();

CDialog::OnClose();

}

3. Test the application


4. Return to MSVC


5. To give the user the ability to suspend video playing, add WM_RBUTTONDOWN
   message to the dialog box and implement it as follows:

void CAnimation1Dlg::OnRButtonDown(UINT nFlags, CPoint point)

{

// TODO: Add your message handler code here and/or call default

m_Animator.Stop();