Flash MX 2004 Games : Art to ActionScript

Chapter 24: Embedding Flash
A dialog box opens offering a list of ActiveX controls that appear on your PC. Scroll down to
‘Shockwave Flash Object’. If you haven’t got Flash installed then it will not appear in the list, but
this book wouldn’t be much use to you either!
A black box appears; this is the Flash Object without a movie embedded. You can drag and
position this if you wish, or you can do this in code.
Figure 24.9 Inserting a member variable for the dialog box
To use the Flash Object in your source code open Class Wizard and select the ‘Member Variables’
tab. Click on the ID name you have chosen for the Flash Object. Press the ‘Add Variable...’ button.
Visual C++ warns you that the object does not have a source file in the current project and
automatically generates one from the information found inside the ActiveX control.
The source files created can be renamed from the defaults if you choose.
Give the member variable a name that you will use to manipulate the Flash Object. You now
have a project that contains a Flash ActiveX control.
Embedding the Flash movie as a resource
At this stage the Flash movie is empty. In this example we want to create a single exe file, so
we need to embed the swf file in the exe. To do this you need to add a custom resource. In the
Resource View panel, right-click and choose ‘Import...’; in the import dialog select ‘Custom’ as
the import type and select an swf file. In the Custom Resource Type dialog type in FLASH as the
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