Free Stuff

This page contains free files that you can freely use in your AutoPlay Media Studio applications.

xDialog Message DLL

This dll provides a custom dialog message box for AutoPlay Media Studio. xDialog Message adds a lot of customization features compared to the built-in AMS Dialog.

You can set the background color of the message box. No more boring grey. Great when you want to match the look of you app.
You can set the color of the message text. Again great when you want to match the look of you app.
You can set the size of the message text.
You can set the message text to bold or regular.
You can use the normal built-in icons or your own custom icon.
You can display a check box and use it for any purpose.
You can hide the title bar.
You can set the style of the window (Normal or Tool style).
You can control the width and height.

It still has all the features of the regular AMS dialog including buttons and icons. Click the download link below to download an AMS project which includes the dll and examples. See the code comments for help.

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Examples

Tool style window

No title bar

xMDB DLL

This is a small dll (107 kb) that allows you to easily work with MS Access databases from Autoplay Media Studio 5 or 6. It has the following features

Create new databases
Create new tables
Modify tables
Drop tables
Insert new records
Update records
Run select queries to return records
Works with password protected databases

Other than creating a new database, everything is done using SQL, so if you have used SQLite then you will have no trouble using this. This dll would make it very easy to import data from an Access Database to an SQLite database or the other way around. Or even as an alternative to SQLite. The example project includes a function to take the results from a select query and create a lua table just like the SQLite.QueryToTable function does.

This has been tested on Windows 98, ME, XP and Vista.

Use the link below to download an AMS project which contains the dll and shows how to use it. This demo requires the DataGrid plug-in.

Download AMS Sample Project

Use the link below to download a compiled exe that demonstrates the dll. The dll is included as a separate file This does not require the DataGrid plug-in.

Download Compiled Exe

xFolderSize DLL

This is a very small dll (8.5 kb) that will return the size of a folder. It is very fast even on large folders. You can use Luacom to get the size of a folder but I found that it failed on large folders. Also Luacom will add 288 kb to your app where as xFolderSize only adds 8.5 kb.

Use the link below to download an AMS project which contains the dll and shows how to use it.

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xEval DLL

This is a dll that will evaluate expressions. It can handle complex expressions. The returned value is a string so use String.ToNumber() if you need to perform any calculations afterwards.

I DO NOT guarantee that the results are always accurate, so please test it well before implementing it in a project.

You can use the following math functions:

ACOS
ASIN
ATAN
ABS
COS
INT
LOG
LOG10
SIN
SQR
TAN

Use the link below to download an AMS project which contains the dll and shows how to use it.

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xGetShortcutTarget DLL

This is a very small dll (7 kb) that will return the full path to the target file of a given shortcut (.lnk) file. The attached apz includes the dll and shows how to use it.

Tested on XP and Vista only.

Use the link below to download an AMS project which contains the dll and shows how to use it.

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More coming soon!