I ran into a problem just removing spaces for the alias name, I guess the
slashes and colon from the path are not valid for the alias,
so now I have a new function that removes everything that is not a letter,
and that seems to have solved the problem:
mciSendString(PChar(Ansistring('Close
That Alias method does seem to work.. thank you for the suggestion, although it
makes it more complicated for asynchronous operation, which is of course what I
wanted.
So here is what I came up with.. for synchronous operation, this works fine:
mciSendString(Pchar(Ansistring('Open ' +
May be by escaping the spaces with ^ ?
Something like: MyFileName:= StringReplace(MyFileName, ' ', '^ ',
[rfReplaceAll]);
^ is the escape char for cmd.exe but may be it is active in this context
too ?
Le 20/09/2022 à 18:31, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit :
I just tried it that
Hi,
I'm not so sure if that's an FPC-only issue. MCI commands like that have been
around for a while, so spaces might not have been "considered" in the first
place.
A workaround was presented years ago, I can only find the archived version:
I just figured out that short filenames won't work, my files are on a linux
server... not NTFS drives.. so I'm back to getting it to work with spaces
the normal file names
James
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I just tried it that way:
Var
pcmd: String;
MyFileName: String;
pcmd:='play "'+MyFileName+'"'+#0;
mciSendString(@pcmd[1],Nil,0,0);
I get the same results, files with no spaces in the name even long file
names play fine, if there's spaces, they won't play.
I had the idea to just get the
I've only ever done this like:
pcmd: string;
pcmd:='open "'+filename+'" ... '+#0;
mciSendString(@pcmd[1], ...);
mciSendString does return errors.. duno if that'll be helpful.
I originally used it in Virtual Pascal and had to make a partial header myself
so the FreePascal one might take
I'm trying to get mciSendString() to work with long file names with spaces
in them and I'm not having any success.
I know with winnows you need quotes around long file names, so I'm trying
things like this:
Var MySoundFile:String;
mciSendString(PChar('play
