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I need to detect the installation of Windows Media Player 6.4 or greater. Surprisingly, I have not been able to find information on this topic. Does anyone know how to detect the presence of this player? Registry? *ocx? I am up against a deadline and need HELP!!!!

MFC, Win9x, VC6 I have an app the uses a simple hand coded offscreen buffer to animated real-time graphics via the Multimedia timer. I now want to add real-time sound to the app. I want the sound to mimic a Geiger counter. The tone has a fixed frequency, volume and play time of 180ms. On the low end, the tone plays every 1 second. At the other extreme, the high end, the tone plays every 180ms in succession. It is key that a want to change the sound in real-time to match the animation. I tried using the PlaySound() function with a variable pause but the low end pause interrupts my real-time animation. Any ideas? I am surprised at the small amount a code samples and explanation a have found. I am not using DirectX. All suggestions welcome and code samples greatly appreciated!

I tried that. However thank you for your response. The problem turned out to be the resource file. For some reason it increased in size to 25M! I restored my backup resource, recompiled, and the EXE file was now 1M. Recompiling my project resulted in a total exe size back to the original 4M.

VC60, Win98, MFC I have been building a release build of my project for a year and the size of my release exe has always been around 8Meg. Suddenly my exe Release build compiles an exe file to the whapping size of 41Meg. Is there something obvious that I am missing?

There are a couple a shareware programs designed just for this. I believe nullsoft, the makers of winamp, used one of them for their product. One product is called ActiveSkin and it looks like the one of choice. The second product, and the one I believe nullsoft used escapes me right now. I remember doing a search for skins and coming across a site that claimed to make the product of choice for nullsoft. I will look into it and get back to you. However once again, the ActiveSkin product was newer, more impressive, and less expensive. The product of choice. ================== The original message was: Hi, where I can find a GUI toolkit to build graphical GUI like Winamp (non-rectangular dialog, bitmap)

Thanks