mciSendString

[Wak]

if I pass a file which is on my desktop, or in one of the subdirectories of my desktop to mciSendString... it will return an error... I am running Windows XP, is there anyway to get around this??

C:\Documents and Settings\Matts\Desktop\MP3\
is my desktop path..

Thank you

[jim mcnamara]

Two things -

the \ character is interpreted as so-called escape (not ascii 27)
it's used in front of characters (including itself ) that have specail meaning eg. :

put a quote inside a string, you need to 'escape' the quote

 char *quote = "\"";

use \\

Spaces in folder names cause problems:

char * mypathname;
strcpy(mypathname,"C:\\Documents and Settings\Matts\\Desktop\\MP3\\");
PathQuoteSpaces(mypathname);

strcat(mypathname,filename) ;

[Wak]

I don't know if it makes any difference, but I've put an extra set of " 's around the whole thing, I was told that this takes care of spaces in filenames, but as for folder name's, I'm not sure.

I'll give it a go... Thanx Jim