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  1. 06-14-2002, 09:51 PM #1
    wendytandy
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    I've been browsing through all flash related webpages looking for a tutorial on how to import or play a midi file in Flash, but still couldn't find it ! can anyone help ? since mp3 and wav file is pretty slowing down the movie. Midi isn't such a bad alternative right ?
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  2. 06-14-2002, 11:23 PM #2
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    To my knowledge, Flash won't import MIDI files.

    I've seen some script programming that enables a MIDI file to played along with the Flash movie though.

    I'll check for the link that gives that.
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  3. 06-14-2002, 11:43 PM #3
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    This is some Javascript that has been posted in the past to control Midi files within Flash. I don't know if you want to go through this much trouble, but here it is.

    The first step is to create a flash movie with the following links under the GETURL: command.


    to stop: Javascript: stopmusic ()
    to start: Javascript: startmusic ()
    Next, place the ENTIRE section below into your html document.

    PASTE THIS:
    <head>
    <title>Midi In Flash</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

    <script language="JavaScript">
    <!-- function MM_controlSound(sndAction,_sndObj) { //v2.0 var sndObj = eval( _sndObj );
    if (sndObj != null) {
    if (sndAction=='stop') { sndObj.stop(); } else {
    if (navigator.appName == 'Netscape' ) { sndObj.play(); }
    else {
    if (document.MM_WMP_DETECTED == null) { document.MM_WMP_DETECTED = false; var i; for( i in sndObj )
    if ( i == "ActiveMovie" ) { document.MM_WMP_DETECTED = true; break; } }
    if (document.MM_WMP_DETECTED) sndObj.play();
    else
    if ( sndObj.FileName ) sndObj.run(); }}}} //-->
    </script>
    </head>

    <script language="JavaScript">
    function startmusic(){
    MM_controlSound('play','document.CS930346114680',' yourmidifile.mid') }
    </script>

    <script language="JavaScript">
    function stopmusic(){
    MM_controlSound('stop','document.CS930346114680',' yourmidifile.mid') }
    </script>

    <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
    codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#3,0,0,0"
    width="91" height="67"> <param name="SRC"
    value="yourswffile.swf"> <embed src="yourswffile.swf"
    pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="91" height="67"> </embed> </object>
    <EMBED NAME='CS930346114680' SRC='yourmidifile.mid' LOOP=true AUTOSTART=false MASTERSOUND HIDDEN=true WIDTH=0 HEIGHT=0> </EMBED>
    </body>
    </html>

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  4. 06-15-2002, 02:55 AM #4
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    you can also convert mid's to wav's
    http://www.midi2wav.com
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  6. 06-15-2002, 12:56 PM #5
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    Thanks for your replies

    Thanks Mike-Edwards for your hard-work, but is it possible to load somewhat the midi files directly from the harddisk or server instead of embedding the files to flash or webpages ? i tried loading it with loadMovie(), but it's fruitless

    I've actually thought of converting the file to wav but still it surely slows down my movie a lot .
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  7. 06-15-2002, 08:43 PM #6
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    umm no
    the mid file needs to be on the server.

    there's an easier code for html
    here's the embed tag

    <OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer1" width=0 height=0
    classid="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
    codebase=
    "http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,0,02,0902"
    standby="Loading Microsoft® Windows® Media Player components..."
    type="application/x-oleobject">
    <PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="yourfile.mid">
    <PARAM NAME="AutoStart" VALUE="False">
    </OBJECT>

    Then use
    javascript
    document.MediaPlayer1.Play()
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  8. 06-16-2002, 09:35 AM #7
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    Read the MIDI entry in the Sound Forum FAQ on using MIDI with flash. (see sig for link).
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