What is FlashPlayerControl? 
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FlashPlayerControl is a window control to enhance Macromedia Flash
Player ActiveX features. It does not use its own engine to display
movies but provide a wrapper around official swflash.ocx/flash.ocx
code instead. Thus it is possible to avoid certain Macromedia Flash
Player ActiveX limitations.

Features at a glance 
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 * Load flash movies from memory directly (no temporary files!). 
 * Create flash-enabled applications which are ready to work even where Macromedia Flash Player ActiveX 
   is not installed! 
 * Transparency is fully supported!
 * Ability to play Flash Video (FLV) directly from memory
 * Enable/disable flash sounds
 * Get a snap image of the current flash movie frame
 * Write code which is compatible with any version of Macromedia Flash Player ActiveX (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8). 

Do all this and more with... FlashPlayerControl! 

Macromedia Flash Player ActiveX 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 are supported. 

Load flash movies directly from any source (no temporary files!). Protect your flash movies. 
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It is known fact that the Flash Player ActiveX is able to load movies
at certain URLs only. You have to save the movie to a temporary
location from your application's resource before you can load it.
You'll have to generate a corresponding link that you can pass to the
Flash Player ActiveX and then delete the movie after. You'll have to
admit that this is extremely inconvenient. Apart from being
inconvenient there is a chance you'll fail when you try to create a
temporary file if you don't have the appropriate permission or don't
have access to a temporary folder. It is definitely not an appropriate
approach when security is an issue since your movie can be easily
intercepted. There is a solution! FlashPlayerControl uses a different
approach of swflash.ocx/flash.ocx code loading. It is able to load
your movies directly to the Macromedia Flash Player ActiveX thereby
avoiding the temporary file step. The advantages are pretty obvious.
And you can also protect your movies from unauthorized access using
your favourite software protection application.

Create flash-enabled applications which are ready to work even when Macromedia Flash Player ActiveX is not installed! 
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One of the biggest problem using the Flash Player ActiveX is the
mandatory component registration. The common approach is to save
swflash.ocx/flash.ocx code to temporary files and then register them.
The disadvantages are the same as above mentioned - insufficient
permissions to save and register an swflash.ocx/flash.ocx. Now you can
forget about these problems! FlashPlayerControl is able to use
swflash.ocx/flash.ocx from any source. For example, you can put an
swflash.ocx/flash.ocx code inside of your application's resources and
instruct FlashPlayerControl to use it. It is important to note that
FlashPlayerControl does not use temporary files and
swflash.ocx/flash.ocx registration but loads and uses the code
directly. No more user management rights problems - no more temporary
files and no more component registrations. It is up to you to decide
what swflash.ocx/flash.ocx to use - by default already registered
component is used.

Transparency is fully supported!
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Using FlashPlayerControl you are able to create applications based on
transparent flash movies. You can create applications with translucency
non-rectangle windows. Use Flash to make applications with modern user
interface.

Ability to play Flash Video (FLV) directly from memory
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Using FlashPlayerControl you are able to play Flash Video (FLV) from
external files, URL or directly from memory. When FlashPlayerControl
loads Flash Video no temporary files are created everything runs directly
from memory. You can encrypt your video and put into application's
resource - FlashPlayerControl loads FLV without ever saving or extracting
the file to disk.

Enable/disable flash sounds
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Using the library you can turn on/off all sounds in all loaded flash movies.
Use function FPCSetAudioEnabled to enable/disable the sounds.
Use function FPCGetAudioEnabled to get current status of sounds enabling.

Get a snap image of the current flash movie frame
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You can get a bitmap images from the current flash movie. It means you are
able create applications that can coverts Flash movies to a series of bitmaps,
JPEGs and others. Also you can build generated images to make an AVI video
for example.

Write code which is compatible with any version of Macromedia Flash Player ActiveX (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8). 
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One of the problem with Macromedia Flash Player ActiveX programming is that
you have to control what version of Macromedia Flash Player ActiveX you are
using. For example, the property "Stacking" exists only in Macromedia Flash
Player ActiveX 5 but doesn't exist in later revisions. TFlashPlayerControl
automatically detects what Macromedia Flash Player ActiveX version is being
used and prevents failure if access to non existant properties/methods is
attempted. Applications using TFlashPlayerControl are not only compatible
with Macromedia Flash Player ActiveX 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, but are also "smart"
about how Macromedia Flash Player ActiveX control is used. This makes your
application more robust which can result in fewer technical support issues.

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