Samples Overview

Microsoft® DirectAnimation® comes with a wide variety of samples that show you how to use DirectAnimation from different languages. You can cut and paste portions or all of these samples for your own animations. The samples come with a pool of media files, including MIDI, 3-D model, image, video, and sound files. These media files are used by the Microsoft® DirectX® Media Software Development Kit (SDK) samples and are available for use in the DirectAnimation content only. You are not allowed to use these media files in any other fashion.

For each language, there are three categories of samples:

Exercises: Illustrate basic use of DirectAnimation at an introductory level.
Templates: Provide code that implements common DirectAnimation tasks, such as how to asynchronously download media, use the pixel construction mode, animate HTML and other controls, and sequence animation behaviors along a timeline.
Showcase samples: Demonstrate the breadth of features in the system. Some of these samples have real-life applications, such as advertising or education.

In addition, the DirectX Media SDK provides DirectAnimation tutorials. Some of the Java showcase samples and most of the Java templates have tutorials that show step-by-step details of their construction. Samples that have associated tutorials include a button labeled Info on the sample's main HTML page. This button launches a new instance of the browser, so that you can see the narration side-by-side with the running animation.

All the examples discussed are in one of the subdirectories in DXMedia\Samples\Multimedia\DAnim.