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Zephni

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18th November, 2010 at 14:56:17 -

So i use files for everything in my games, like the tileset, animations music, is all retrieved from an external source.. So how come when i try to to play a midi file from a file its not working now, when i have blatently done this before.

um the expression is somthing like:

appdir$+"\Music\"+"songname.mid"

any ideas why it isnt playing, i have triple check all the names of the folders and files are correct.
Oh, but it works if i use the MMF function "play midi", but i want to get it from a file, so why isnt it working???
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18th November, 2010 at 14:59:29 -

have you tried appending appdrive$ to the beginning?

appdrive$+appdir$+"\Music\"+"songname.mid"



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18th November, 2010 at 15:02:45 -

Thanks for reply, i tried it, but no luck. Im really confused, ive never had this sort of problem before, doesnt seem to make sence. Im sure theres some explanation though...

 
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18th November, 2010 at 15:13:15 -

Infact,it cant be the route of the file thats the problem coz i put the whole path in from c:\ and it still didnt work

 
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18th November, 2010 at 15:29:08 -

try eliminating the music folder - temporarily. Just use appdrive$+appdir$+songname.mid, build an exe, move the midi file into the same folder as the exe, then see if that helps.

That will at least eliminate one possibile problem.





 
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18th November, 2010 at 16:10:30 -

Are you making it as a .swf? I don't know how MMF reacts to midis during development, but I know they don't work for flash.

 
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18th November, 2010 at 16:31:04 -

nope, its standard build :s

 
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18th November, 2010 at 18:02:14 -

Hmm, well I'm stumped.

 
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20th November, 2010 at 06:34:52 -

appdrive$+appdir$+"\Music\"+"songname.mid"

you got a \ to much, appdir$ and appdrive$ adds its own \
so basicly ur line reads like this:
c:\game\\Music\songname.mid

what you want is

appdrive$+appdir$+"Music\"+"songname.mid"

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20th November, 2010 at 07:53:57 -

If you run into further trouble, try to output it as a string, then you'll be able to figure out exactly what's up.

 
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20th November, 2010 at 18:25:49 -

Probably removing that extra slash did the trick, but if it didn't, I've got some old TGF code for the MCI object which plays midi files.

You could send the following command: "open %drive%%dir%midifile.mid alias tune"
then send: "play tune" or "stop tune"
and don't forget to close the tune by sending: "close tune"

A cool feature from the MCI object is that it can keep playing the same midi file between multiple frames, without starting over again


 
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21st November, 2010 at 18:55:55 -

Oh kwl thanks Jenswa il try that! never actualy used the MCI object.

 
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23rd November, 2010 at 12:29:48 -

Hey guys, is their anywhere i can learn more about the MCI object, like the commands it receives and different functions it has?

 
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23rd November, 2010 at 12:33:52 -

atm its saying please supply an alias or drive or somthing... i have pretty much copy pasted your expression.

 
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24th November, 2010 at 10:57:33 -

"why isn't my midi file not playing"

you be trollin!!! lol.

 
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