Opening the Playback Window

The following example shows how to use the MCI_OPEN12F69Z1 command to set a parent window and create a child of that window.

MCI_DGV_OPEN_PARMS    mciOpen;

mciOpen.lpstrElementName = lpstrFile;  // Set the filename.

mciOpen.dwStyle = WS_CHILD;            // Set the style.

mciOpen.hWndParent = hWnd;             // Give a window handle.

if (mciSendCommand(0, MCI_OPEN,

   (DWORD)(MCI_OPEN_ELEMENT|MCI_DGV_OPEN_PARENT|MCI_DGV_OPEN),

   (DWORD)(LPSTR)&mciOpen) == 0)

{ 

    // Open operation is successful. Continue.

}