mmsystem

[Dominic Vella]

Does anyone know why I would be getting a "File not found: mmsystem"?

I've tried this:
Declare Function sndPlaySound Lib "mmsystem" (ByVal lpszSoundName As
String, ByVal wFlags As Integer) As Integer

I can see 'mmsystem.dll' in my "c:\windows\system" directory

I really want to use the 'mmsystem' library because of it's high level
Timing and I'd rather not go the WINMM direction as it doesn't have other
great functions I want to use.

Thanks in advance.
Dominic

[CDMAPoster]

On Jan 28, 10:02*pm, "Dominic Vella" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

Does anyone know why I would be getting a "File not found: mmsystem"?

I've tried this:
*Declare Function sndPlaySound Lib "mmsystem" (ByVal lpszSoundName As
String, ByVal wFlags As Integer) As Integer

I can see 'mmsystem.dll' in my "c:\windows\system" directory

I really want to use the 'mmsystem' library because of it's high level
Timing and I'd rather not go the WINMM direction as it doesn't have other
great functions I want to use.

Thanks in advance.

Dominic

This is a shot in the dark.

Steven Roman, in his book "Win32 API Programming With Visual
Basic" (ISBN: 1-56592-631-5, maybe also 9781565926318) states:

For Win32 API calls, this is usually (but not always) one of the "big
three":

KERNEL32.DLL
USER32.DLL
GDI32.DLL

For these three DLLs, you can omit the extension .DLL in <libname>, as
we did ...

James A. Fortune
CD********@FortuneJames.com

[Arno R]

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Does anyone know why I would be getting a "File not found: mmsystem"?

I've tried this:
Declare Function sndPlaySound Lib "mmsystem" (ByVal lpszSoundName As
String, ByVal wFlags As Integer) As Integer

I can see 'mmsystem.dll' in my "c:\windows\system" directory

I really want to use the 'mmsystem' library because of it's high level
Timing and I'd rather not go the WINMM direction as it doesn't have other
great functions I want to use.

Thanks in advance.
Dominic

This works for me to play files:

Private Declare Function apiPlaySound Lib "Winmm.dll" Alias "sndPlaySoundA" _
(ByVal lpszSoundName As String, ByVal uFlags As Long) As Long

Function csvPlayWave(ByVal FileName As String, ByVal How As Integer) As Integer
csvPlayWave = apiPlaySound(Trim(FileName), How)
end Function

'Example: ReturnCode =csvPlayWave("c:\windows\media\tada.wav", 1)

Arno R

[Dominic Vella]

As I mentioned, I was trying to avoid the WinMM. Basically, I'm trying to
synchronise playback (particularly MIDI) with other activity. MMSystem is
a lower level platform, of which WinMM also uses (supposedly).

I need MMSystem for such functions as MidiInOpen, MidiInStart,
MidiInAddBuffer, PutMidiOut etc.

Dom
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Does anyone know why I would be getting a "File not found: mmsystem"?

I've tried this:
Declare Function sndPlaySound Lib "mmsystem" (ByVal lpszSoundName As
String, ByVal wFlags As Integer) As Integer

I can see 'mmsystem.dll' in my "c:\windows\system" directory

I really want to use the 'mmsystem' library because of it's high level
Timing and I'd rather not go the WINMM direction as it doesn't have other
great functions I want to use.

Thanks in advance.
Dominic

This works for me to play files:

Private Declare Function apiPlaySound Lib "Winmm.dll" Alias "sndPlaySoundA"
_
(ByVal lpszSoundName As String, ByVal uFlags As Long) As Long

Function csvPlayWave(ByVal FileName As String, ByVal How As Integer) As
Integer
csvPlayWave = apiPlaySound(Trim(FileName), How)
end Function

'Example: ReturnCode =csvPlayWave("c:\windows\media\tada.wav", 1)

Arno R

[Arno R]

"Dominic Vella" <do***********@optusnet.com.auschreef in bericht news:47***********************@news.optusnet.com.a u...

As I mentioned, I was trying to avoid the WinMM.

Sorry, I overlooked that one

Arno R

[Tom van Stiphout]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:02:00 +1100, "Dominic Vella"
<do***********@optusnet.com.auwrote:

I have the file on my system as well, both in system and system32, but
both say "No PE signature found. This file is not a valid Win32
module" when I try to inspect them. I suspect they are 16-bit legacy
components. You'd need to find more modern replacements.

-Tom.

>Does anyone know why I would be getting a "File not found: mmsystem"?

I've tried this:
Declare Function sndPlaySound Lib "mmsystem" (ByVal lpszSoundName As
String, ByVal wFlags As Integer) As Integer

I can see 'mmsystem.dll' in my "c:\windows\system" directory

I really want to use the 'mmsystem' library because of it's high level
Timing and I'd rather not go the WINMM direction as it doesn't have other
great functions I want to use.

Thanks in advance.
Dominic

[Dominic Vella]

Yes, MMSystem is 16-bit. To my understanding it was still useable as when
developing Win95 they rushed and allowed some 16-bit dll's. The WinMM dll
typically Thunked (a techo name for mutating) the 16-bit MMSystem dll.

Now it seems, I'm way behind the times, WinMM has been fixed and fortunately
uses the same library calls. No more thunking!! Yippee.
Dominic

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On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:02:00 +1100, "Dominic Vella"
<do***********@optusnet.com.auwrote:

I have the file on my system as well, both in system and system32, but
both say "No PE signature found. This file is not a valid Win32
module" when I try to inspect them. I suspect they are 16-bit legacy
components. You'd need to find more modern replacements.

-Tom.

>>Does anyone know why I would be getting a "File not found: mmsystem"?

I've tried this:
Declare Function sndPlaySound Lib "mmsystem" (ByVal lpszSoundName As
String, ByVal wFlags As Integer) As Integer

I can see 'mmsystem.dll' in my "c:\windows\system" directory

I really want to use the 'mmsystem' library because of it's high level
Timing and I'd rather not go the WINMM direction as it doesn't have other
great functions I want to use.

Thanks in advance.
Dominic