MCI Notification for Media Files

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I am looking for a Visual Foxpro 6.0 Code Snippet that uses the MCI interface to play a media file using Notification, and, the associated Notification Stub Routine which is called when the media is finished playing.

thanks.
Mike Sullivan

 

[jonscott8]

Hi Mike,

Rick Strahl created a VFP class that provides an interface to the Windows API MCI functions. Take a look at:

http://www.west-wind.com/wwvfppd.htm

The FFC also have an example, but its not quite as refined as Ricks. If you're still interested, the class library is named _multimedia.vcx. Search your hard drive.

AFA notification goes, VFP6 doesnt support callback functions, which is what is required in order to receive notification of when the multimedia file has completed playing.(I've heard that VFP7 will, but it's yet to be seen.)

On a side note, if you use the MCI ActiveX interface, you can take advantage of the DONE event when the NOTIFY property is set to true. There are several samples in the VB docs. Jon Hawkins

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