Howto Remote control WMP

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.pocketpc.multimedia (More info?)

Dunno about the programming aspects of it - you might want to see how
others have done it before reinventing the wheel though : "Vinyl"

http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=768

Cheers - Neil

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:50:55 +0530, Mayank <mayank@impulsesoft.com>
wrote:

>Hi all,
> I would like to control some of the basic commands of WMP remotely,
>such as Play/Pause/Stop etc.. I am using a pocket PC device which runs
>WMP-10. I ran remote spy to see what window messages were posted when
>Play/pause or stop is selected from the menu of WMP.
> I saw that for play/pause (cmd: WM_COMMAND, wParam: 0x2712 lParam : 0)
> and for stop (cmd: WM_COMMAND, wParam: 0x2714 lParam : 0). When i
>added a postMessage with the above parameters in my application, i am
>getting the proper result. The only problem is that i have to select the
>Menu option from WMP once before which the above commands from my
>application take affect.
> Does anyone know why this may be happening ? If this is not the right
>way, can someone suggest me what is the correct way ?. I tried posting
>VK_MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE key. But this does not work.
>
>-Mayank

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.pocketpc.multimedia (More info?)

Ah sorry somehow I read you wanted to control Desktop PC's media
player from Pocket PC not the other way round !

Cheers - Neil

On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:58:39 +0530, Mayank <mayank@impulsesoft.com>
wrote:

>Most of the implementation available, controls the Windows Media Player
>on PC. They use either ActiveX controls or send commands to WMP window
>using PostMessage.
>But for PocketPC, neither the ActiveX controls work, nor sending of
>commands to WMP window using PostMessage works. Anyone have any idea of
>an alternate implementation or a correct implementation of the above to
>remotely control WMP in pocet PC.
>
>-Mayank
>
>Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] wrote:
>> Dunno about the programming aspects of it - you might want to see how
>> others have done it before reinventing the wheel though : "Vinyl"
>>
>> http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=768
>>
>> Cheers - Neil
>>
>> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:50:55 +0530, Mayank <mayank@impulsesoft.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>> I would like to control some of the basic commands of WMP remotely,
>>>such as Play/Pause/Stop etc.. I am using a pocket PC device which runs
>>>WMP-10. I ran remote spy to see what window messages were posted when
>>>Play/pause or stop is selected from the menu of WMP.
>>> I saw that for play/pause (cmd: WM_COMMAND, wParam: 0x2712 lParam : 0)
>>> and for stop (cmd: WM_COMMAND, wParam: 0x2714 lParam : 0). When i
>>>added a postMessage with the above parameters in my application, i am
>>>getting the proper result. The only problem is that i have to select the
>>>Menu option from WMP once before which the above commands from my
>>>application take affect.
>>> Does anyone know why this may be happening ? If this is not the right
>>>way, can someone suggest me what is the correct way ?. I tried posting
>>>VK_MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE key. But this does not work.
>>>
>>>-Mayank
>>
>>