Re: Error message strings

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:50

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Remy Lebeau (TeamB) wrote:

>"nicolasr"  wrote in message
>
>> does anyone know whether it's possible to ask
>> the system for a text message given an error code
>> from the MMSYSERR_ and MMIOERR_
>> categories?
>
>Those errors are not included in the system's message table with other error
>messages.
>
>> Can I use LoadLibrary/FormatMessage with some
>> DLL that contains resource strings for these errors?
>
>Only if the DLL has a message table in its resources that contains all of
>the text messages.  Otherwise no.  In this case, the multimedia system is
>implemented in winmm.dll, which does not have such a message table.

It looks like appropriate messages are in MMSYSTEM.DLL (which oddly
enough matches MMSYSTEM.H which contains the mentioned #defines).

I also see several functions on MSDN, depending on what you are doing
in the realm of MM....

mciGetErrorString()
midiInGetErrorText()
midiOutGetErrorText()
waveInGetErrorText()
waveOutGetErrorText()

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