mci & midi questions

[Ken Ray]

Leston,

Check out http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cal/publications/mcia2m.html.

Have fun!

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leston Drake" <ldrake at lpsoftware.com>
To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 3:45 PM
Subject: mci & midi questions


> I need some help.
>
> I'm trying to add some 'background' music to an application and I would
> like to use MIDI (small files are good).
> In MetaCard (on Windows) you use the mciSendString() function to send
> commands to the Windows system, and this is fine, except that I need a
> comprehensive list of commands.
>
> Specifically, I need to periodically query the device to know when it has
> reached the end, so I can restart it.
> There is a STATUS command for MCI, but it doesn't seem to work with the
> MIDI SEQUENCER device. If it does, I have no idea what the valid
parameters
> are. The example for STATUS in the MCI.MC file available from MetaCard's
> website doesn't work either, it is lacking a (vital) parameter.
>
> Does anyone know of a comprehensive list of MCI Commands?
>
> Related question that I will need to address - is there any way to
> *natively* play MIDI on Mac?
>
> TIA,
> Leston
>
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