mciSendString?

DaveE9th

I'm trying to work with the mciSendString, but it's new to me. I've not seen it mentioned in any of the books I have. What's it used for? Tanks!!!!! Dave :-D

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Maxwell Chen

Platform SDK: Windows Multimedia MCI The Media Control Interface (MCI) provides standard commands for playing multimedia devices and recording multimedia resource files. These commands are a generic interface to nearly every kind of multimedia device. The mciSendString function sends a command string to an MCI device. The device that the command is sent to is specified in the command string. Example in Platform SDK Doc:

DWORD PlayFromTo(LPSTR lpstrAlias, DWORD dwFrom, DWORD dwTo)
{
char achCommandBuff[128];

// Form the command string.
wsprintf(achCommandBuff, "play %s from %u to %u", 
    lpstrAlias, dwFrom, dwTo); 

// Send the command string.
return mciSendString(achCommandBuff, NULL, 0, NULL);

}

BuggyMax

DaveE9th

Thanks Max :-D

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