On Friday, Sept 17 1999, Androw Griffin wrote:
> Okay, I've been able to play music on the Macintiosh using play
> videoclip, but MetaCard keeps crashing when I try it on the PC. The
> Midi I have is in Quicktime format and on the Mac it works, but not the
> PC. Now I have been reading the mailing list about the mcisendstring( )
> thing, but I still can't get that to work. I know nothing about the mci
> sendstring. I tried messing with it but just got an error.
The current shipping release of MetaCard (2.2.5) doesn't support QT on
Windows. You have to use the original (non QT format) MIDI file with
MCISendString.
> So, I guess
> my question is: How can I get midi music to play on the PC? If it's
> with mci sendstring please tell me exactly how I would use it, since I
> am unaware of how to use the art of the mci sendstring command.
There is an example stack at ftp://ftp.metacard.com/MetaCard/mci.mc.gz
Regards,
Kevin
> Thanks!
>
> --Andrew
Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.xworlds.com/>
Cross Worlds Computing, MetaCard Distributors, Custom Development.
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