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PLAYMIDI

PLAYMIDI filename, length

Description:

This plays a *.MIDI sound from a file on disk as specified in filename. The length variable will hold the length of the MIDI file (not in seconds). You can only play one file at a time. Periodically, you will need to use the MIDIPOS( ) function to see if you've reached the end of the music:

Finally, use the STOPMIDI command to close the music file before you can play a different one.

Usage:

'the playmidi command returns the length of the midi in

' the variable howLong

playmidi "c:\somedir\mymusic.midi", howLong

timer 1000, [checkPlay]

wait

[checkPlay]

if howLong = midipos( ) then [musicEnded]

wait

[musicEnded]

stopmidi

timer 0

wait