Play a music file

[timbudtwo]

Well I put in a midisequence in my tool box from custiom controls, and I put a song in it in the fourm. It shows
|the midi icon|
| my song |
I have made a menu with a music option, the options in it are
on
off
And I wanted to make it so when you click on on the midi will turn on and when you click off it'll turn off. How can I do that. The name of the midi sequence in the form is midi1.

[kedaman]

In the toolbar buttonclick event put a boolean switch to go true when false and vice verse

static switch as boolean
switch=not switch
if switch then
'turn on the midi
else
'turn off the midi
end if

You can also use the mciSendString API to play MIDI's, which might be better in your case because you just want ON and OFF features.

Code For module.

Declare Function mciSendString Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "mciSendStringA" (ByVal lpstrCommand As String, ByVal lpstrReturnString As String, ByVal uReturnLength As Long, ByVal hwndCallback As Long) As Long

To Play the MIDI.

mciSendString "open C:\MyMidi.mid", 0, 0, 0
mciSendString "play background", 0, 0, 0

To Stop the MIDI

mciSendString "close background", 0, 0, 0