Flash MX 2004 Games : Art to ActionScript

Chapter 24: Embedding Flash
resource type. A new folder will appear in the Resource View panel labelled ‘FLASH’. Inside this
folder will be the new resource. Give this a useful name by right-clicking and choosing ‘Properties’.
Turning the resource into a temporary swf file
Before you can assign the custom resource to Flash you need to open it and store it as a temporary
file. The function ‘CreateTmpSwf’ does this work for you. If you are interested in how this
function works then you will need to get several books on the Windows platform to better
understand the memory management and API calls.
1 BOOL CFlashAXExeDlg::CreateTmpSwf()
2 {
3 HINSTANCE hInst = AfxGetResourceHandle();
4 HRSRC hrsrc = ::FindResource(hInst,
5 MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_FLASH), "FLASH");
6 if (!hrsrc) {
7 TRACE("BINARY resource not found");
8 return FALSE;
9 }
10 HGLOBAL hg = LoadResource(hInst, hrsrc);
11 if (!hg) {
12 TRACE("Failed to load BINARY resource");
13 return FALSE;
14 }
15 BYTE* pRes = (BYTE*) LockResource(hg);
16 ASSERT(pRes);
17
18
int iSize = ::SizeofResource(hInst, hrsrc);
19 // Mark the resource pages as read/write so the mmioOpen
20 // won’t fail
21 DWORD dwOldProt;
22 BOOL b = ::VirtualProtect(pRes,
23 iSize,
24 PAGE_READWRITE,
25 &dwOldProt);
26
27
ASSERT(b);
28 GetTempPath(MAX_PATH, m_tmp);
29
30
strcat(m_tmp, "\\tmp.swf");
31 CFile file(m_tmp, CFile::modeWrite|CFile::modeCreate);
32 file.Write(pRes, iSize);
33 file.Close();
34 return TRUE;
35 }
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