How to setup MCIwindow for VMF and dib pictures?

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From: Timo Laitakari
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 13:21

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We have with Philip Donner been playing with the Multimedia Command 
Interface for some time and constructed a program to execute MCI 
command sequences. It is a similar program as the one coming with the 
MDK, but goes some steps further by providing loop and branch 
structures, exec, beep, messagebox and abort commands. The conditioning 
is produced by testing responses from the MCI functions and the 
messageboxes.   

As most of you must know by this time, Microsoft made the generous move 
of including some of the MCI drivers with Windows 3.1. The funny thing 
is that what was already there in our machines - bitmaps, metafiles - 
cannot any more be shown without external drivers and programs.    

Is there anyone around who could give us some advice as to how to setup 
the old multimedia extensions' MCI animation driver so that we could 
show WMF and DIP files in conjunction with MCI steered music and sound. 



Timo Laitakari and Philip Donner

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From: tlaitaka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Timo Laitakari)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: How to setup MCIwindow for VMF and dib pictures?
Summary: Help needed in setting up a mci steered multimedia environment.
Keywords: MCI, animation, metafile, bitmap
Message-ID: <1992Sep7.132112.19701@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Date: 7 Sep 92 13:21:12 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki
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