## QMedia v1.5 | ## Using QMedia

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## Step 1: Setting up the plug-in area

Open your form in 4D's Design environment Form Editor and draw a _QMovie plug-in area where you want your movies to appear.

Area setup in QMedia v1.5 is codeless. All values that control the initial behavior of your area can be set by means of the Advanced Properties Dialog. Double-click on the area to invoke the object properties palette, then click on Advanced... to display the APD. This is what you will get (all 3 pages shown):

The properties available through this dialog allow you to control:

- The placement of the movie in the movie area
- The visibility of the movie controller or of its constituent parts (show, hide, let movie decide)
- The way the movie will play (looping, selection only, play every frame)
- The behavior of the movie (use badge, respond to keys, enable drag to Macintosh desktop)
- The events that will be intercepted by the area and processed by your own event handler method

All these properties can be altered later from your code, by means of plug-in commands.