Another cry for help.

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Here I go again! Starting a new machine and could use a bit of help with a couple of things, otherwise it'll take me years to figure it all out by myself

First up, can somebody explain/provide an example of how the MidiOut function works? I've been experimenting but I'm having no joy at all so far.

Second, windows. Aaaaargh! If anyone could provide a simplified example of getting values into and out of list-boxes, text-boxes and drop-downs I'd be grateful. I'm in VCExpress so no visual editor and a bit of example code would be a big help.

Also, how does the ScheduleEvent function work?

Thanks in advance. I'll try not to ask too many noob questions this time.

[mute]

i dont know if you've used vb or delphi for anything.. but its very different in vc++ than in those languages. basically what you have to do in vc is what you would be doing in vb if you were doing add-on program for another application.. that being more or less a msg hook on the listbox or whatever dialog/input you are using and looking for a change or command (ive been getting back into this stuff lately myself and have been using vce so i know how you're feeling).

it's actually pretty simple stuff.. full versions of vc++ fill in some of this stuff for you with its reseditor similar to rad.. i found a pretty good example via google that'll probably help you out:

http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/controls.html

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Thanks for the link, mute. Looks like exactly the sort of thing I need to push me in the right direction.

[sgorpi]

if you like i can post microsoft win32 programmers reference .hlp file with most of the win32 api stuff (so NO mfc) it maybe a bit old file, but i found it very usefull

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[usr]

win32 api help file is absolutely essential. i even prefer older versions that are in the original windows .HLP format over newer ones in that compressed html thingy, because the search function works better.
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[btd]

A starting point for MidiOut (this is from PeerCtrl, which uses the MIDI out stuff for feedback to Pocket Dial-type endless encoders)

[sgorpi]

there ya go
http://totalegekte.com/tmp/win32help.zip

i found this more usefull then msdn these days, indeed because of the quicker search and overview of relevant things good overview of GUI stuff but it doesn't contain anything about multimedia stuff sadly... so if anyone has a help file on that, do mention it

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Thanks btd. Looks mostly like what I've been doing but I didn't know how to find the device numbers, so I guessed they were numbered sequentially starting at 0. Since I've been totally unable to get my synth to respond, I suspect that I was wrong . The two helper functions you mentioned should be a big help.

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