Microsoft® DirectX® media is a family of high-level APIs and multimedia controls that provide rich support for animation, streaming, and integration of the different media types. Microsoft® DirectAnimation™ is the DirectX media component that enables you to integrate different media types (two-dimensional images, three-dimensional geometries, sounds, movies, text, and vector graphics). The media can be animated over time and integrated with user and synthetic events. Animations can be constructed for deployment on the Web or used directly within applications or standalone content.
DirectAnimation is a COM API and an underlying runtime that different users can access in different ways. HTML authors can add multimedia and animation to their pages by using the DirectAnimation multimedia controls without programming at all. You can also animate HTML pages by using Microsoft® Visual Basic® Scripting Edition (VBScript), Microsoft® JScript™, and Java applets. Finally, Java, Visual Basic, and C++ application programmers can develop Microsoft ActiveX™ Controls or full applications. Thus, DirectAnimation provides multimedia tools that scale from the HTML author to the C++ programmer.
This section shows how DirectX functionality is exposed to Java, concentrating on the use of the DirectAnimation classes.
The following DirectX Media documents are provided.
Microsoft DirectAnimation Java Reference describes each of the DirectAnimation Java methods including syntax, returned values, and how to use the functions.