In a message on 10 March 96 19:06 to Edwin Groothuis, Jorgen De Gier wrote:

 >  EG> does somebody known what the first parameter of mciPlayFile(), HWND
 >  EG> hwndOwner, does? I'm actually looking for a way to tell if an
asynchrono
 > us
 >  EG> played audiofile is stopped. I've tried to intercept WM_CONTROL
 > and
 >  EG> MM_MCINOTIFY at the hwndOwner, but without luck...
 > mciPlayFile needs a message queue, the HWND supplies it. ( I guess )

The trick was that the message was send to the applications queue, but the
dispatch didn't send it to the window-procedure. Since I know this I've
just added this to the mainloop and now everything works fine ;-)

 > ( I think I've seen the Multimedia online manuals at http://www.austin.ibm.co
 > m/os2games )

Where did you think I got the mciPlayFile-info from ;-)

Edwin

@EOT:
--- FMail/2 1.02