I'm working on an audio-intensive Director app that needs to coexist peacefully with other audio-heavy apps on the end user's system. Specifically, I need to know if another external app (ex: RealPlayer) has control of the waveaudio device, and, if so, disable the waveaudio-dependent functionality within my app (or prompt the user to close the other app). I've researched Xtras, but haven't found one that can return the waveaudio device status. Is there an Xtra (or an ActiveX control) that I may have overlooked? For now, I've turned to Lingo's mci command. I've been able to open the waveaudio device and play a .wav file via Lingo, but am coming up short on capturing the status of the device. (Any mci experts out there? mci "status waveaudio mode" returns an error. ) Platform specs: --Win 98 and Win 2000 --Dir 7.0.2 (v8 is not an option) --soundDevice = DirectSound --includeds speech-related ActiveX controls (DirectSR and DirectSS) Thanks in advance for the help. --Liz [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
