Question

I have an AVI file that I pulled from shell32 using Resources Extract. I would like to use this with TAnimate but I can’t figure out how to load this file.

I succesfully loaded the AVI into a .RES file using DelphiDabbler’s rcdatacreator program (you have to download the “worked example” to get rcdatacreator. However, my issue now is figuring out how to extract the AVI file from the .RES and supplying it to TAnimate.

I am using Delphi 2010:

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

As Andreas mentioned (in his now deleted answer), you don’t need to use an external tool to add the resource in recent versions of Delphi.

Use Project/Resources and Images... from the IDE menu. Add a new resource by browsing to the folder your .AVI file is in, give it a name, and type in AVI for the Resource Type. (It’s not in the list, but you can add it.)

At runtime, use the following code:

// I used CoolAVI as the resource name in my image above,
// so that's the name I need to use here.
Animate1.ResName := 'COOLAVI';
Animate1.Active := True;