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Using MCI

DialogScript allows you to control multimedia devices using the Windows Multimedia Control Interface (MCI). DialogScript provides the @MCI function, which can be used to send MCI command strings and obtain the response, which may consist of information or an error message.

MCI is a command language in its own right. For a complete description of it, refer to Microsoft's own multimedia documentation.

MCI command strings are English-like and readily understandable. You open a device, play it, and then close it when you are finished with it. For example, the command strings:

open cdaudio

play cdaudio from 1 to 2

close cdaudio

would play the first track of an audio CD. Audio data files must be given a name, called an alias, which is used in the MCI commands. For example:

open C:~1.WAV alias sound

play sound

close sound

If the above MCI command strings were sent using a DialogScript script then the result would be nothing, because the sound would be stopped by the close command before it had a chance to play. By appending the word wait to an MCI command string, as in the first example, control is not returned to the script and the close command is not executed until the play command has completed.