Looping a midi

Hellow ,hongjun

Check below:
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/  // Includes....
 #include "windows.h"
 #include "midi.h"
 #include "stdio.h"  

// Externals.... extern HWNDg_hWnd;  
//------------------------------------------------------------------
//  
// Function: PlayMidi()
//
// Purpose: Plays a midi file
//
//------------------------------------------------------------------  
BOOL PlayMidi(char *sFileName)
{      
char buf[256];      
sprintf(buf, "open %s type sequencer alias MUSIC", sFileName);

if (mciSendString("close all", NULL, 0, NULL) != 0)      
{
return(FALSE);      
}
       
if (mciSendString(buf, NULL, 0, NULL) != 0)
{
return(FALSE);
}

if (mciSendString("play MUSIC from 0", NULL, 0, g_hWnd) != 0)
{
return(FALSE);      
}

// Yahoo!
return TRUE;
}  

//------------------------------------------------------------------
//  
// Function: PauseMidi()
//
// Purpose: Pauses midi file
//
//------------------------------------------------------------------  
BOOL PauseMidi()
{      
// Pause if we're not already paused...      
if (mciSendString("stop MUSIC", NULL, 0, NULL) != 0)      
{
return(FALSE);      
}

// Yahoo!      
return TRUE;
}  

//------------------------------------------------------------------
//  
// Function: ResumeMidi()
//
// Purpose: Resumes playing of a midi file
//
//------------------------------------------------------------------
BOOL ResumeMidi()
{      
// Resume midi      
if (mciSendString("play MUSIC notify", NULL, 0, g_hWnd) != 0)
{
return(FALSE);
}

// Yahoo!

return TRUE;
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------
//  
// Function: StopMidi
//
// Purpose: Stops a midi file playing
//
//------------------------------------------------------------------  
BOOL StopMidi()
{      
if (mciSendString("close all", NULL, 0, NULL) != 0)
{
return(FALSE);
}

// Yahoo!
return TRUE;
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------
//  
// Function: ReplayMidi()
//
// Purpose: Replays a midi file
//
//------------------------------------------------------------------  
BOOL ReplayMidi()
{      
// Replay midi
if (mciSendString("play MUSIC from 0 notify", NULL, 0, g_hWnd) != 0)
{
return(FALSE);
}

return TRUE;
}  

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And check:

Playing a MIDI File
http://msdn.microsoft.com/isapi/msdnlib.idc?theURL=/library/psdk/multimed/mci_3wpx.htm

Does above solve all your troubles?
Regards

If you just want to repeat a MIDI segment, just put the mciSendString() call in a loop (for, while, etc.) and use the starting and ending position parameters in the mciSendString() call if you want to just play a part of the midi file.

Yep,check the ReplayMidi function again and you will also get this hint.

Adjusted points from 50 to 55

By the way what I need is a code that is like PlaySound(...,SND_LOOP); that need me to include this statement once and then need not to worry about it anymore. If there's a similar way of looping a midi as looping a wave file, can I have the full proper code with void main() included.

Thanks Wyn for your help but I just cannot gather the pieces and form them into a proper program. I am only a beginer in C++.

Thanks
hongjun

No , you'd use a for loop to repeat it.
Like ReplayMid() function above , if you'd replay it repeatedly,you'd put it into a loop ...no matter while ,for ,do-while or so...

I have given you a link for documents.

But I want the midi to run and act as a background sound. Example in a plane game, the midi is the background and the user is still able to fire bullet and move to kill enemy planes. Using a loop wouldn't it affects the flow of the game?

hongjun

Oh ,my fault .
I misundertand it.

I will comment later because now I'v got to backed school.

I have the code to run background game midi repeatedly,I will try to find them and post here later:)

Let me know if it works(It should work,right? :)
Btw:above have a typo ,I miss a if statement before (time_enalbe).I think you have detected it out.

Let me know if it works(It should work,right? :)
Btw:above have a typo ,I miss a if statement before (time_enable).I think you have detected it out.

Regards
WANG.

In case your misundertanding ,in my first comment after you reject me,I said you'd use loops.But notice the way to use loop.Now in above suggestion ,you'd put it into your game rendering loop function.
~{O#M{SP0oVz~}

 

Thanks Wyn for your valuable comments. I can loop the midi using time function.

hongjun

The below code will loop midi 5 times.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <mmsystem.h>

void main()
{
      time_t time_now, time_begin;
      int time_diff;
      char* ReturnString = (char*)malloc(30 *sizeof(char));
      int i=1;

      LPTSTR lpszReturnString = ReturnString;
      time_now = time(NULL);
      time_begin = time(NULL);
      time_diff = 0;

      while ( i <= 5 )
      {
            if ( time_diff == 0 )
            {
                  mciSendString("open a.mid type sequencer alias finch",
                                       lpszReturnString, lstrlen(lpszReturnString), NULL);
                  mciSendString("set finch time format samples", lpszReturnString,
                                       lstrlen(lpszReturnString), NULL);
                  mciSendString("play finch", lpszReturnString,
                                       lstrlen(lpszReturnString), NULL);
            }
            time_now = time(NULL);
            time_diff = time_now - time_begin;
            if ( time_diff > 5 )
            {
                  i++;
                  time_diff = 0;
                  time_begin = time(NULL);
                  mciSendString("close finch", lpszReturnString,
                                      lstrlen(lpszReturnString), NULL);
            }
      }
                  mciSendString("close finch", lpszReturnString,
                                      lstrlen(lpszReturnString), NULL);
}

hongjun

hongjun ,happy to answer your question.I will go there next year with live with my relatives:)