How to use full screen mode in Windows Media Player (activex)

[jeremy_levy]

I am trying to write a LV program to display video "full screen" using a WindowsMediaPlayer control (in LabVIEW 8).  Is this not possible?  When I run the code I get an error:

Error -2147418113 occurred at Property Node

This error code is undefined. No one has provided a description for this code, or you might have wired a number that is not an error code to the error code input.


Anyone have any ideas?



Thanks,

Jeremy

[Ben]

Hi Dr. Levy,

I played with the media player a while back and seem to rember a property along the lines of "Allow re-sizing".

Have you tried this LV 7.1?

If you post a LV 7.1 version of the code I may get a chance to look at it tonight. Otherwise, I will have to wait until I get LV 8 installed, possibly tomorow evening.

Ben

BTW Thank you for introducing me to LabVIEW! You definately changed my life!

[Ben]

Under LV 7.1 with DSC installed I get the same error code (-2147418113) but "explain error" gives me this.

"LabVIEW DSC:  (Hex 0x8000FFFF) Catastrophic failure."

This prompts the question is it possible to set an activeX object running in a container for Full Screen.

This is probably a Q for MS.

If it look like it is possible, try to get a VB example and that will tell us what we have to do to make this work.

Ben

Message Edited by Ben on 10-31-2005 04:45 PM

[jeremy_levy]

Thanks Ben for checking this out.  I agree, it must not be possible to view video full screen when it's in a container.  I'm going to try to run it by calling WMP directly, not in a LV window.

Sounds like things are going well--glad to hear it!

Jeremy