Where can I get a nice & free Flash player component for Delphi? The ones I know of are quite pricey! Or what is the best way to play Flash files in Delphi?
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Have you considered directly embedding a Flash player instance as an ActiveX object? Or are you looking for a Delphi-native wrapper?
Update
Tutorial: Running Flash animations with Delphi
Thanks Re0sless for providing the link and Scott W for alerting me about it.
Ates Goral
2009-01-09 04:21:17
there is a how to do this here http://delphi.about.com/od/graphics/l/aa040103a.htm
Re0sless
2009-01-09 10:50:38
This is a very valuable comment. @Ates, could you update your answer to include the link? Otherwise, @Re0sless, you may want to list as a separate answer.
Scott W
2009-01-09 13:58:55
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We are actually doing this just now. We just used the TWebBrowser component and loaded an locally installed HTML page in which played a flash video (a locally installed swf file) if the user has flash installed. Just the same way any website would do it.
Have a look at SWFObject for details on how to embedded a .swf file in a web page and how to detect if flash is installed or not.
Jamie
2009-01-09 07:55:58
What is the point of embedding TWebBrowser and then putting swf inside when you can embed an ActiveX object directly?
Max
2009-01-09 09:49:28
Yeah, good point. Had not thought about the ActiveX route. Is it easy enough to handle the case where Falsh is not installed or not at the correct version?
Jamie
2009-01-09 10:20:17
I took this approach also (embedded TWebBrowser), but I needed to show a HTML document which includes flash. There is a TEmbeddedWB component (http://www.bsalsa.com/product.html) which exposes some nice properties that tWebBrowser doesn't.
skamradt
2009-01-13 20:28:27
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You can embed the Flash Activex directly over your Delphi form as any other Activex, without the need of a TWebBrowser. You can even import the Activex wrapped as a VCL component (Components -> import) and then use it.
SalvadorGomez
2009-01-10 03:07:48
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You can fairly easily import it as an activeX control. I made a movie on how to do this: Movie #28 - Flash within Delphi. You can also check out the article by Felix Colibri: Writing a Flash Player in Delphi. Additionally check out the article on About.com
Alister
2009-01-12 02:48:41
@Alister - I really liked your Movie #28... simple easy to follow. Thank you
Cape Cod Gunny
2010-08-20 22:22:28
@Cape Cod Gunny - thanks, I've been meaning to make more, but have been busy lately.
Alister
2010-08-20 23:35:10
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i agree embeding activex as a vcl is quite powerfull, but how do i disable the function of the main activex when right-clicking menus on the movie? it is annoying when sometimes common user accidently click and resizing the movie and/or go to adobe website its make them confuse. i allready disable the menus from flash.but seems still exist on "about" section. i want it disapear completely :(
(sorry 4 my poor english)