Sending a Command

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[The feature associated with this page, MCI, is a legacy feature. It has been superseded by MediaPlayer. MediaPlayer has been optimized for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Microsoft strongly recommends that new code use MediaPlayer instead of MCI, when possible. Microsoft suggests that existing code that uses the legacy APIs be rewritten to use the new APIs if possible.]

The following example function sends the play command with the "from" and "to" flags using the mciSendString function.

BOOL PlayFromTo(LPTSTR lpstrAlias, DWORD dwFrom, DWORD dwTo) 
{ 
    TCHAR achCommandBuff[128]; 
    int result;
    MCIERROR err;

    // Form the command string.
    result = _stprintf_s(
        achCommandBuff, 
        TEXT("play %s from %u to %u"), 
        lpstrAlias, dwFrom, dwTo); 

    if (result == -1)
    {
        return FALSE;
    }

    // Send the command string.
    err = mciSendString(achCommandBuff, NULL, 0, NULL); 
    if (err != 0)
    {
        return FALSE;
    }

    return TRUE;
}