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The information in this article applies to:
 - Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows
   version 3.1
 - Video for Windows Development Kit version 1.1
 - Visual Basic version 3.0
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The VBMCISTR sample shows how to use the function mciSendString in Visual Basic to play multimedia files.  The sample also uses the MMControl custom control from the MCI.VBX custom-control file to play multimedia files.  You may find it easier to use the MMControl to manipulate multimedia files than it is to use mciSendString commands.

This sample only demonstrates a few of the features of MMControl and a few of the commands strings that mciSendString can use.  The Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Features Book 1 contains a complete description of all of the features of the custom control, MMControl.  You can find more information on command strings you can send using mciSendString in the following resources:

Multimedia Programmer's Reference
This book ships with the Windows 3.1 Software Development Kit (SDK)

Multimedia Programmer's Guide
This book ships with the Windows 3.1 SDK

MCISTRWH.HLP
This Windows Help file ships with Microsoft Visual C++ Professional Edition version 1.X.

DK_DOC.MVB or DK_DOC.HLP
These Windows Help files ship with the Video for Windows Development Kit version 1.1.  These help files also contain information on the controls from the MCI.VBX and the MCIWNDX.VBX custom-control files.


See Also:
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The Video for Windows Development Kit version 1.1 comes with a robust sample of how to use the features of the custom-control file, MCIWNDX.VBX.  This sample is called VBMCITST. 

There is a topic in the DK_DOC.HLP and DK_DOC.MVB files titled "Comparing MCIWNDX.VBX to MCI.VBX."

More Information 
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The  source files of the VBMCISTR sample were compressed using PKZip version 2.04g.  The zipped file is called VBMCI.ZIP.  The following files are included in the zip file:
form1.frm
frmabout.frm
global.bas
mcivbx.frm
opendlg.frm
readme.txt
vbmcistr.mak

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