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deadweasel
12-25-2003, 11:41 PM
Is there a method to control this player using VB? It looks cool, and I would like to use it for the audio portion of a touch-based frontend I am working on. Winamp has this functionality through a plugin, but it is missing two critical features that are critical: next and previous track. Without those features available in the Winamp plugin, I'm forced to use yet another program to enable those controls. In the end, it's a pain to complete, and not all that reliable on the end machine I intend to use this on.

Is there such a plugin for QP, or is it already capable of commandline or VB level control?

Thanks for your help!

Hanzo
12-27-2003, 12:39 AM
Is there a method to control this player using VB? It looks cool, and I would like to use it for the audio portion of a touch-based frontend I am working on. Winamp has this functionality through a plugin, but it is missing two critical features that are critical: next and previous track. Without those features available in the Winamp plugin, I'm forced to use yet another program to enable those controls. In the end, it's a pain to complete, and not all that reliable on the end machine I intend to use this on.

Is there such a plugin for QP, or is it already capable of commandline or VB level control?

Thanks for your help!
There is something called the "Q Tips" (no you can't use this in your ears =). Just right click the player and >QCD Player>Credits and Q Tips>Q Tips

There will be a bunch of command line switches that may come in handy for you. I'm not familiar with those, but they might be what you are looking for.

Qaz
12-27-2003, 12:35 PM
I'm dumb. What's VB?

Heigar
12-27-2003, 12:40 PM
I'm dumb. What's VB?
Visual Basic,It's a coding language.

plover
12-29-2003, 01:44 AM
I'm pretty sure it should be possible to write QCD plugins in VB. What would be necessary is to import the C definitions from the PDK, and then to get VB to output the plugin as a DLL. In theory, any platform that can compile a proper Windows DLL can make QCD plugins.

Xymantix
12-29-2003, 06:00 PM
Is there a method to control this player using VB?

Yup, QCD supports most of the WinAmp 2 API nicely. You can get the scoop from http://www.winamp.com/nsdn/winamp2x/dev/sdk/api.php.