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- Microsoft ActiveX Conferencing SDK 1.0 (Beta 2) Samples ReadMe
- July 1996
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-
- (c) Copyright Microsoft Corporation, 1996
-
- ========
- CONTENTS
- ========
-
- Samples Overview
- Additional Components
- Installation and Build Instructions
- Warnings and Known Bugs
- Other Information
-
- ================
- SAMPLES OVERVIEW
- ================
-
- This directory contains code samples for the Microsoft ActiveX
- Conferencing API. The following samples are provided, more detailed
- information can be found in the individual sample directories:
-
- SAMPLES\MSCONF\CNFTEST
- ----------------------
- This is a small application which demonstrates the Conferencing APIs.
-
- SAMPLES\MSCONF\EXCEL
- --------------------
- This is an example of an Excel Add-In which creates a Conferencing
- toolbar.
-
- SAMPLES\MSCONF\EZCONF
- ---------------------
- This example creates a small DLL which is used by the Excel and Word
- samples.
-
- SAMPLES\MSCONF\WORD
- -------------------
- This is an example of a Word macro which creates a Conferencing toolbar.
-
- SAMPLES\ULS
- ------------
- User Location Server DLL, documentation and installation instructions.
-
-
- =====================
- Additional Components
- =====================
- In addition to these examples, the following components are provided
- in the indicated subdirectories of the ActiveX SDK:
-
- HELP\MSCON*.HTM
- ---------------
- HTML files containing the Windows ActiveX Conferencing API Overview and
- Windows Conferencing API Programming Reference.
-
- Lib\i386\MSCONF.LIB
- -------------------
- Link library for developing conferencing enabled applications.
-
-
- ===================================
- Installation and Build Instructions
- ===================================
- Microsoft ActiveX Conferencing SDK is installed by the ActiveX SDK
- setup procedure, no further installation is necessary. Microsoft
- NetMeeting is available at http://www.microsoft.com/ie/conf.
-
- The sample code written in C was built using Microsoft Visual
- C++ 4.1. To build the C examples, open the makefile (*.mak) as a
- Microsoft Visual C++ project and build as usual. You may wish to
- incorporate the contents of the Include and Lib directories into
- your Visual C++ development environment.
-
- The sample for Excel is written using Excel Basic. See the readme.txt
- file in the Excel sample directory for more details on installing and
- using the Excel sample code.
-
- The sample for Word is written using Word macros and Word Basic.
- See the readme.txt file in the Word sample directory for more details
- on installing and using the Word sample macros.
-
- ========================================
- Instructions for Specifying Audio Codecs
- ========================================
- A mechanism for integrating and testing other ACM codecs has been
- provided in the registry. One registry entry in "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\
- Software\Microsoft\Internet\Audio\CustomACMEncodings" represents one
- specific 3rd party format and the preferential order of attempts to use
- that format. The format of the registry key is "DriverName_x_y_z" where
- x is the ACM format tag, y is the sample rate, and z is the bits per
- sample. The key value is a positive number which represents the preference
- (i.e. "first choice", "second choice", and so on.) of that format. Example:
- to specify the preferred codec as the Microsoft G 711 A-law codec at an 8k
- sample rate, 8 bits per sample, the registry key will be
- "Microsoft CCITT G 711_6_8000_8", and the value of the key will be "1".
-
- Third party codecs will be selected first, in the order specified. If there
- are no complimentary 3rd party codecs specified at both ends, then the
- default codec selection mechanism will be used.
-
- =======================
- Warnings and Known Bugs
- =======================
-
- - The associated release of Microsoft NetMeeting does not work with
- Winstone 96.
-
- - The Beta 2 versions of the Microsoft ActiveX Conferencing SDK and
- Microsoft NetMeeting do not work on Windows NT.
-
- - These beta versions only run with the US English version of Windows 95.
-
- =================
- Other Information
- =================
-
- Refer to the readme.txt file contained in the MSCONF directory of this
- ActiveX SDK CD-ROM for detailed information on the current status,
- warnings, and known bugs.
-
- Check the Microsoft ActiveX Conferencing homepage at
- http://www.microsoft.com/intdev/msconf for new sample code, new versions
- and to report problems.
-