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onhiatus
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Posted: June 18 2006 at 21:28 | IP Logged Quote onhiatus
I started to play around with sending the WM_APPCOMMAND to control Windows Media Player (see Thoughts on WMP control) and had very good results. The following PH formulas seem to work very reliably and much quicker than the sendkeys I was previously using (tested on XPHome w/ WMP 10 - ymmv, but should work on any XP or later os).

The following formulas assume that windows media player is already running. In my "play" macro, I check to see that WMP is running, and if not launch it, wait 1 second, then send the message.

     Play: ph_sendmsg(ph_findwindow("WMPlayerApp",0),793,0,3014656)
     Pause: ph_sendmsg(ph_findwindow("WMPlayerApp",0),793,0,3080192)
     Stop: ph_sendmsg(ph_findwindow("WMPlayerApp",0),793,0,851968)
     Back: ph_sendmsg(ph_findwindow("WMPlayerApp",0),793,0,786432)
     Next: ph_sendmsg(ph_findwindow("WMPlayerApp",0),793,0,720896)

Note that Play and Pause are discrete - not toggled. There's a toggle value to, but I was excited to find discrete keys.

Have fun!
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Posted: June 19 2006 at 08:14 | IP Logged Quote krommetje
Hey that is interesting:

I was trying to use winamp for my Streaming Radio, but for some reason winamp exits with an error when I call the link to the radiostation. Is it possible to open an address with the formula ph_sendmsg?

Peter
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Posted: June 19 2006 at 18:06 | IP Logged Quote onhiatus
I don't think you would use sendmsg to do this. If you relaunch wmp (e.g. double clicking a mp3 file) it brings up the current instance and plays the new file, so, if you use ph_launchapp to "launch" your address it should open it with the correct player (assuming you have wmp configured to handle the file type).

This was basically how my old roll-your-own Pronto based system worked - including internet radio...
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Posted: June 21 2006 at 05:22 | IP Logged Quote krommetje
I am going to play around a bit as soon as I've got this CM11 business sorted out....

Peter
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