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

On Jan 28, 10:02=A0pm, "Dominic Vella" <dominic.ve... [at] optusnet.com.au>
wrote:
> Does anyone know why I would be getting a "File not found: mmsystem"?
>
> I've tried this:
> =A0Declare 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
CDMAPoster [at] FortuneJames.com

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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 =3D apiPlaySound(Trim(FileName), How)
end Function

'Example: ReturnCode =3DcsvPlayWave("c:\windows\media\tada.wav", 1)

Arno R

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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"Dominic Vella" <dominic.vella [at] optusnet.com.au> schreef in bericht
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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

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

Sorry, I overlooked that one

Arno R

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:02:00 +1100, "Dominic Vella"
<dominic.vella [at] optusnet.com.au> wrote:

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
>

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

"Tom van Stiphout" <no.spam.tom7744 [at] cox.net> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:02:00 +1100, "Dominic Vella"
> <dominic.vella [at] optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> 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
>>