Visual Basic 5 Web & Multimedia Adventure Set: The Best Way to Develop Interactive Multimedia with Visual Basic 5

Multimedia is a huge, diverse field, so it's not surprising that Visual Basic 5 Web and Multimedia Adventure Set should present a huge, diverse, and, at times, sprawling collection of programming techniques for building multimedia applications. Topics covered include hypertext and hypermedia applications, palettes and colors, sprite animation techniques, complex audio manipulation, MIDI, Web-based ActiveX, and the use of the Media Control Interface. The authors also explore the use of many Windows graphics and multimedia application programming interfaces (APIs) and uncover some of the low-level details of relevant Windows media objects, including sounds and color palettes. A large-scale sample Visual Basic application called Explore the Grand Canyon (included with other examples on the bundled CD-ROM) gives you an opportunity to build a custom hypermedia engine and put many other techniques from the book into practice.