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playback, or you can even provide them with an MP3 player to select and skip through multiple
tracks of audio, as shown in Figure 1.7.
Blend supports all the audio file types that Windows Media Player 10 supports, such as AIF, AIFC,
AIFF, ASF, AU, MID, MIDI, MP2, MP3, MPA, MPE, RMI, SND, WAV, WMA, and WMD.
FIGURE 1.7
You can add your own custom-designed MP3 player to your application’s user interface.
For more information about using audio in Blend, see Chapter 14.
For more information about controls and layouts in Blend, see Part V.
Adding images
Bitmap images can be added into a Blend document and resized and positioned precisely. Bitmap
images can be added into controls, such as buttons. You can give images glows using opacity
masks or bitmap effects. For example, the collage in Figure 1.8 has opacity masks assigned to each
bitmap. You can change them to 3D to animate them like photos flying in space. You can add them
to flow documents and wrap text around them. Images can resize along with the container that
holds them, or you can specify that they do not resize. Unlike vector graphics, images may become
jagged when magnified, but you can specify a maximum size that they can be enlarged to, as well
as the minimum size that they can shrink to. You can also specify precisely what part of the image
is focused in on if the image gets clipped in a smaller window. (The Viewbox control allows you to
do this.)
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