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A repository of usefult tidbits for use with AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0
This section is designed to be a reference work, rather than a place for general discussion. That being said, we encourage you to submit your best fully tested and debugged scripts, functions, examples, sample projects, templates and articles pertaining to AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0. We will also...
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0 Knowledge Base</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <h3>Making a Basic Quiz/Testing Application</h3> <b>Document ID: IR10051</b> <hr> The information in this article applies to: <ul> <li>AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0 Standard Edition</li> <li>AutoPlay Media...
I have recently started a small company to produce software for mobile devices. Some of the products are applications to run on removable writable drives. Specifically, USB pen drives. The applications are preloaded onto USB drives and sold as a system. The user has to accept the license agreement...
This is a function that allows you to take either a jpg or bmp image and set it as the windows wallpaper. This code should be placed on the button or image event that you want to use to set the users wallpaper. SetWallpaper(0,2,image_name_or_variable) The function takes three...
To do a page jump using a listbox or combobox object for user input all you need is a couple actions, 1 to detect the selected item and one to do the jump. Here I am attaching 2 AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0 Pro source files: 1. comboJump.apz 2. listJump.apz These files demonstrate this...
You can easily submit values to online scripts using AutoPlay Media Studio. In this example we will build a PHP script to send email, and then setup an AutoPlay Media Studio application to interact with it. The result will be an AutoPlay Media Studio application which can send your information by...
This project groups objects together to perform actions on the group. The key to this is to have the objects name within a group start with a "group name". For example: if you have a label named: lblTitle and another named lblAuthor, to group them, simple rename the objects to...
These functions let you programatically change a users Internet Explorer printing options found under IE's File | page setup menu. Specifically it changes the header, footer, and margins. This is especially useful if you are using the Web.Print action in an AMS project to print a report or other...
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0 Knowledge Base</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <h3>Adjusting Volume Levels</h3> <b>Document ID: IR10096</b> <hr> The information in this article applies to: <ul> <li>AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0 Standard Edition</li> <li>AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0...
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0 Knowledge Base</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <h3>Making a Slideshow with Voiceovers</h3> <b>Document ID: IR10048</b> <hr> The information in this article applies to: <ul> <li>AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0 Professional Edition</li> </ul> <hr> ...
Attached is a project that includes two functions that allow you to change the mouse cursor within your project. These functions call on functions within the user32.dll on the windows system. Here is an example of how to use the functions --]-- --Example: resetCursor = SetCursor(32514);...
One of our forum members, Intrigued, has created a Web site devoted to sharing sample AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0 project files. These files are created by Intrigued and other forum members. You can get to this site here: http://amsuser.com Note: amsuser.com is independently owned and...
This example demonstrates how to use the SQLite Plugin. The attached project is a simple 'phonebook'. From various input objects it accepts contact info: First Name Last Name Email Address Phone Numbers Addresses The contents of the SQLite database are displayed in a listbox. It allows...
here's another sample for the SQLlite Plug-in. It's the Customer project that Roboblue made for AMS6. i converted it to AMS5. Hope this helps someone! http://www.indigorose.com/forums/showpost.php?p=85433&postcount=7 Chris
Here is a sample project that will allow you send an email message through a server using SMTP Authentication. It uses a DLL that I wrote as the SMTP engine.
What do you do when you want your application to perform a certain set of actions - but only one time ever? This function does just that. It keeps track of whether or not the actions have been called before and will return true if they have been and false if they have not. Place this code into...
How To : Create animated .gif , create animated .jpg , create animated .bmp , create animated .png , or create animated .tif , create animated .pcx , create animated .tga , create animated .wmf , create animated .apm , create animated .emf , create animated .psd , and create animated .pcd images. ...
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0 Knowledge Base</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <h3>Asking the User for Confirmation Before Exiting</h3> <b>Document ID: IR10094</b> <hr> The information in this article applies to: <ul> <li>AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0 Standard Edition</li> ...
Using the LuaCOM plugin, you can easily initiate an email message complete with attachments though MS Outlook's COM API. Here is some sample code that will make an email message through Outlook. Note that I have only tested this on Outlook 2000 using v1.0.0.2 of the LuaCOM plugin. olMailItem...
Hello everyone! From time to time, we are asked by users if it is possible to secure the applications that are made with AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0. While there are no 100% ways to secure software, there are steps that can be taken to prevent, or at least slow down unauthorized use. One...
The attached example shows you how you can use the Image.SetPos and Image.SetOpacity actions to create image movement and effects in your AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0 Professional projects. You'll also see that your project remains responsive while the animation occurs, thanks to the use of the On...
This sample project shows how to get the color underneath the mouse pointer. The values are returned in either Long or Hex.
This is an example that uses a DLL to capture a Window (same as Alt-PrintScreen) as an image. Also shows the use of: Window.EnumerateTitles Listbox Scaling an Image
I have an upcoming tutorial on how to do this in 6.0 which is quite revolutionary, but for now I thought I'd post this simple sample of how to do it using 5.0. I'm not posting any of the tutorial yet but if you have any questions in the meantime please let me know. As far as I can see using this...
Introduction: Occasionally I'm asked how to pass data between AutoPlay applications, or if it is even possible. The easiest way to do this is as follows. You will create two applications with the following settings/specifications: Application 1: This application will have a multi-line...
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Playing Multiple Video Files in Sequence</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <h3>Playing Multiple Audio Files in Sequence</h3> <b>Document ID: IR10029</b> <hr> The information in this article applies to: <ul> <li>AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0 Standard Edition</li> <li>AutoPlay...
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