MCISendString

[Dennis]

I am trying to use the Notify Flag to send a message when a song is finished
playing. I got it to work by setting up a dummy window and overriding it's
WndProc procedure then raising an event in my application. This work great
until I open a new window then the Notify message doesn't seem to trigger the
WinProc procedure in my dummy window. I guess it's because another window
has the focus...is there any other way I can intercept this message when the
window or it's parent doesn't have the focus?

Dennis in Houston

[Dennis]

RE: MCISendString

I got it to work. The sample code I was using had poorly constructed dispose
methods and it was hanging up. Just one question though, if I have a routine
like MciSendString that notifies a window when it's done by sending a message
that window's handle and that window does not have the focus, will it still
receive the message or will the message be qued until the window gets the
focus?
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Dennis in Houston


"Dennis" wrote:
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> I am trying to use the Notify Flag to send a message when a song is finished
> playing. I got it to work by setting up a dummy window and overriding it's
> WndProc procedure then raising an event in my application. This work great
> until I open a new window then the Notify message doesn't seem to trigger the
> WinProc procedure in my dummy window. I guess it's because another window
> has the focus...is there any other way I can intercept this message when the
> window or it's parent doesn't have the focus?
>
> Dennis in Houston[/color]

[Mattias Sjögren]

Re: MCISendString

>notifies a window when it's done by sending a message[color=blue]
>that window's handle and that window does not have the focus, will it still
>receive the message[/color]

Yes.

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>or will the message be qued until the window gets the focus?[/color]

The message is still queued, but when it will be retrieved from the
queue doesn't have anything to do with whether or not the window has
focus.



Mattias

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[Dennis]

Re: MCISendString

Thanks. It seems to work that way but I wanted a "second" opinion from
someone before I based my application design on this. Thanks again.
--
Dennis in Houston


"Mattias Sjögren" wrote:
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> >notifies a window when it's done by sending a message
> >that window's handle and that window does not have the focus, will it still
> >receive the message[/color]
>
> Yes.
>
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> >or will the message be qued until the window gets the focus?[/color]
>
> The message is still queued, but when it will be retrieved from the
> queue doesn't have anything to do with whether or not the window has
> focus.
>
>
>
> Mattias
>
> --
> Mattias Sjögren [MVP] mattias @ mvps.org
> http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/ | http://www.dotnetinterop.com
> Please reply only to the newsgroup.
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