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Windows => Plug-in Development => Topic started by: PedroPhill on November 07, 2002, 11:00:37 am

Title: How To Control MJ from external app?
Post by: PedroPhill on November 07, 2002, 11:00:37 am

Can someone help me with controling MJ from a normal exe file. I need to be able to read the song title, duration and other info if possible.
Is there any way how to do it (send message commands and so)?

Lets say in Delphi,VB, or at least C?

Could you mail me some examples? :)

Thanx you all,

Phill Phill@seznam.cz

Title: Re: How To Control MJ from external app?
Post by: RhinoBanga on November 08, 2002, 06:19:38 am

You can't normally but there's nothing stopping you from creating a plugin that receives requests from an external program and returning the info you want.

I had the same problem in that in mIRC I wanted to tell people what I was listening to so in AV I created global hotkeys that copied what was playing to the clipboard.

Title: Re: How To Control MJ from external app?
Post by: PedroPhill on November 08, 2002, 11:29:03 pm

Has someone got any plugin writen in delphi? I can't find any example on the net. :'( I'm not used to work in C.

Thanks,
  Phill

Title: Re: How To Control MJ from external app?
Post by: RhinoBanga on November 08, 2002, 11:40:35 pm

I presume you have VB as you mentioned it in your original message so look at the BusyBox sample in the SDK download:

http://www.musicex.com/mediajukebox/DevZone/int_sdk.zip


That will tell you everything you need to know.