midiOutShortMsg.md

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Function name : midiOutShortMsg

Group: Windows Multimedia - Library: winmm

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Sends a short MIDI message to the specified MIDI output device.

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Code examples:

How to play MIDI notes

Declaration:

MMRESULT midiOutShortMsg(
	HMIDIOUT hmo,
	DWORD dwMsg
);  

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FoxPro declaration:

DECLARE INTEGER midiOutShortMsg IN Winmm;
	INTEGER hmo,;
	LONG dwMsg  

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Parameters:

hmo Handle to the MIDI output device. This parameter can also be the handle of a MIDI stream cast to HMIDIOUT.

dwMsg MIDI message. The message is packed into a DWORD value.

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Return value:

Returns MMSYSERR_NOERROR (0) if successful or an error otherwise.

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Comments:

A MIDI output device must be open prior to calling this function.

Read about MIDI messages (second parameter in the call) on MIDI.org.

See also: midiOutOpen.

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