Opening Windows Media Player from my program

[MaryKJolly]

How can Start, Play,Stop and pause Windows Media Player from my VB program

[kadghar]

you should be able by using its ActiveX, the syntax depends on your VB versión, but using CreateObject would be of help:

Dim Obj1 as Object
Set Obj1=CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX")
Obj1.visible=true

You should ask Google about other commands, to open a playlist or stuff like that.

[smartchap]

It gives error 'Object doesn't support this property or method' for statement 'obj1.visible = True'

[kadghar]

hmm, thats perhaps my mistake.

Once the object has been created as an instance of Windows Media Player. You could only use properties or methods its ActiveX supports.

If 'visible' is not one of them, the mistake will be shown. Sorry about that. You should ask google about the properties and methods of this application.

[debasisdas]

why not use media player component. you can use all the inbuilt properties and methods.

[smartchap]

Thanks for the reply. As a component it will do all the required things, i.e. its properties and methods could be used. Actually I wanted to know how to use as object.

[kadghar]

@smartchap
The same as a component. For example if you define the object as an InternetExplorer, it has the VISIBLE property and the NAVIGATE method, so you can do this:

dim obj1 as object
set obj1 = createobject("internetexplorer.application")
obj1.visible=true
obj1.navigate "www.google.com"

HTH