Thread: Impee3 - Ver. 2

very nice. i really like the location and great install of the LCD! did you do that yourself, or did you pay the pro's? how do you like running the pc to the amp? this is on my list of things to do next, i just need to find a nice amp, but im not sure if its worth doing or not, my system sounds pretty nice right now, but louder is better. lastly, what program is that on the lcd?

I mounted the LCD myself. The trim is from that black wallbase that you see in offices.

I had to run the sound through an amp otherwise I wouldn't be able to hear it. It works well, but it still cuts out on me every once in a while.

The program is my own toy. Cobra was way too slow on my machine and kept freezing up, so I wrote this. It's very readable and the LCD couldn't be in a better location.

great standard of work mate!!


very impressed. I noticed u guttted your AT/ATX PSU from the metal casing for your plexi case (which looks really nice BTW). I am going to do the same for my next revision soonish (with the TFT yay!) what grouding did you do on the PSU circuit board if any at all?

Im guessing that since most of the time you need to ground the metal case to stop buzzing in your output sound that I would need to ground at a point on the circuit board where it is mounted to the metal casing? do I make sense in my statment? hope so!


also your application looks nice, I am gonna take the same approach with my new TFT software once it is in the car. At the moment it is pure VB with lots of bitblt code, etc for some nice GFX effects, but I am starting a crash course in Flash 5/MX and am gonna move to a hybrid VB/Flash application like you have...

one thing with that, I read those links you posted in another thread about the 'FScommand' to allow communication between VB and flash, but I could not find anything about flash talking back to VB (say with a VB event or something) do you have any URLs to other VB/flash intergration examples?

once again, nice work...... your car is a Hyaundi? (looking at the steering wheel logo) what model/series?

If you do mount your power supply like that, use nylon screws. I learned that one the fun way.

Actually, I don't have any buzzing in my speakers and I didn't ground my system to the chassis. My first system had a buzz that I could drown out with loud music, but I was never able to get rid of it. Either my new amp filters it out, or I don't have a ground loop so I didn't worry about grounding it.


Right, FSCommands are how to speak back to VB. Here's an example. I use the period/decimal key to return to the main menu. I made a button in the movie and had this as my action.

on (keyPress ".") {
gotoAndPlay ("Main", 1);
fscommand ("change_win", "main");
}

It tells flash to go to the "Main" scene, frame 1. The fscommand will trigger the xWin_FSCommand event in VB. (xWin is my Shockwave Object in VB). In VB, under the xWin_FSCommand event, I have:

Private Sub xWin_FSCommand(ByVal command As String, ByVal args As String)

Select Case command
Case "change_win"

Select Case args
Case "main"

'Do whatever needs to be done when it returns to the main menu

End Select

End Select
End Sub

Does that make sense?

The examples on the other post are all that I have. I figured out most of it by going through each property and seeing what each one does. Let me know if you need any more help on that.

My car is a 2001 Hyundai Elantra. It's treated me really nice over the past year and a half. They're great deals if you're looking for a new car.

ahh cheers dude (I love this semi-realtime chat!)


so what your saying is that Flash calls VB code, and not the otherway around? so how could I pass say an mp3 track title from a VB string to flash to have it render it? im guessing it must be able to be done.


for example on your player when your mp3 is playing you have the track name/artist centered in the middle of the TFT. i am guessing you have passed that information from your VB application to the flash Scene somehow?


did I make sense? what you explained was communication from Flash to VB.... but howto do the other way around?


cheers!

In Flash, go to Window -> Panels and make sure "Text Options" is checked. Now type some text in your movie, go to the "Text Options" tab, select "Dynamic Text", and type a variable name in the "Variable" text box. For this example, type in "FlashTextBox". This is how you'll reference it from VB.

Now go back into VB and put a command button on your form. Add this code (remember xWin is the name of my Flash object):

Private Sub Command1_Click()
xWin.SetVariable "FlashTextBox", "This is text from VB"
End Sub


Now it'll change the "FlashTextBox" in flash to read "This is text from VB".

ahhh..... I am guessing that syntax works for variables used in Actionscript too?


thanks.....


what are u using personally? Flash 5 or MX?

Flash 5

Hey all. I actually teach Flash at a local tech college. I have worked a lot with Flash and MP3s using PHP etc... but don't know too much about VB.

Would it be possible to send me the FLA and the VB script so I could take a look at it to figure out how to use VB with Flash? I won't "steal" anything that you have done, just want to figure out how all this works. Especially the VB stuff, I haven't really used it at all.