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Opening the Playback Window

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[The feature associated with this page, MCI, is a legacy feature. It has been superseded by MediaPlayer. MediaPlayer has been optimized for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Microsoft strongly recommends that new code use MediaPlayer instead of MCI, when possible. Microsoft suggests that existing code that uses the legacy APIs be rewritten to use the new APIs if possible.]

The following example shows how to use the MCI_OPEN command to set a parent window and create a child of that window.

MCI_DGV_OPEN_PARMS    mciOpen; 
 
mciOpen.lpstrElementName = lpstrFile;  // Set the filename.
mciOpen.dwStyle = WS_CHILD;            // Set the style. 
mciOpen.hWndParent = hWnd;             // Give a window handle. 
 
if (mciSendCommand(0, MCI_OPEN, 
   (DWORD)(MCI_OPEN_ELEMENT|MCI_DGV_OPEN_PARENT|MCI_DGV_OPEN), 
   (DWORD)(LPSTR)&mciOpen) == 0)
{ 
    // Open operation is successful. Continue. 
}