JAPP

I was playing with the excellent new "midiAPI" today and I found I had to add a line for the sake of one of the functions. I could not get _midiAPI_InGetNumDevs to tell me how many devices I had until I added: Global Const $__g_hWinMMDll = DllOpen("winmm.dll") I found "$__g_hWinMMDll" listed as a global variable at the top of midiAPI.au3 but not in midiAPIConstants. Just thought you'd like know. I was taking my project forward this morning when I found the _MidiInStart() & _MidiInStop() functions. My apologies for my mistake and solemnly swear to not do it again. I should have gone a little farther yesterday, I've never used MidiInStart/Stop in this or any other way. They say "You can learn something new every day" but what they don't tell you is you have to have your head outside of your own butt to thoroughly benefit from the experience.

MattyD I just found your posting and I am most grateful, I've been hoping for something like this for a very long time. I enjoy working with AutoIt but have never able to use it much with midi. Since I'm not a programmer I often use something else for the midi parts and AutoIt for most everything else. (Not the greatest way of doing things - it gets surprisingly messy.) I've been running your examples all morning and and have not had even the smallest of issues. Your work on this is top shelf and your commitment to it's thorough development is blatantly obvious. As to your mention of a second layer, I very much look forward to seeing it. I'm sure that whatever you come up with will make a great addition to the AutoIt language. Please keep up your great work.

Hello binbinhfr, Take a look at my MasterRouter script, it may be of some help. Good luck! - MasterRouter.au3JAPP

This is just a small script I wrote several years ago that I use to quickly set up the output of my master Yamaha keyboard. I have several different types and pieces of hardware that I occasionally send MIDI output to - depending on what I'm playing with at the time. It is a simple program (I'm not a programmer) that needs more comments. Just thought I'd post it on the forum on the off chance someone was interested in taking a look. My many thanks to all those who have taken the time to post their work/code/ideas and observations for both MIDI and programming in general . Without it I would never have gotten this far. MasterRouter.au3

Hello la_saucisse, Welcome to the forum and your English is fine. In the interest of solidarity - I have had the same experience as you. I could find and select my devices and could get the notes working, but couldn't get any farther. I eventually gave up - I hope you have better luck. If you can make some headway with this maybe I'll be able to dust off my old stuff and get working on it again! Best of luck.

Sorry for the delay, got held up. The attached script is still showing up on the task manager details tab even though it's been 24 hrs since I tried to run it. MasterRouter.au3

I have been working with the MIDI UDF by Eynstyne, Ascend4nt and others (Thanks for that) on a 64 bit Windows 10 machine and I've run into a brick wall. For several months now the programs & scripts I've written won't run. As an example - I was working on a simple program of mine last night and everything was fine. It would start as a compiled exe (both 32 and 64 bit versions) and as a script in the editor scite editor (Lite version but I've had exactly the same issues with the heavy version - makes no difference) and everything was fine. Got up this morning and tried to run the same program and nothing would run. I started the script from the editor and it shows up in the console as starting "C:\ProgramFiles(x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\..\autoit3.exe" /ErrorStdOut "C:\Users\JAPP\Scripts\Midi\StyleSetter.au3" And then nothing. Everything just stops. I have to Ctrl + Break to stop it. I have the same issues when trying to start the compiled script from an icon on the desktop. I get nothing. I go into the task manager and it shows up there as started but I can't stop it, End task has no effect in either processes or details tab. Shut the computer down and go into the office for a few hours and when I come home and restart the machine the program is still there. When I try end task in details it tells me that the operation could not be performed and access is denied. I've run out of ideas. I even did a fresh reinstall of Windows 10 last weekend and accomplished absolutely nothing. I'm not a programmer just someone playing around so if anyone thinks they could shed some light on this I would greatly appreciate it.

czardas, I just stumbled across this short exchange between yourself and mLipok - I look forward to more on mus++.

InunoTaishou, Thanks for the explanation. I've been working/playing with AutoIt for several years now, but I've never touched GDI+. This will help me a lot.

This is some cool stuff you two are doing here - I'm doing some things with stereo speaker crossover designs right now and I like this. I've tried some of the free schematics software on the net but I've found most of it overkill to the point where it is useless to me. I really love the straight-forward simplicity of this - I'll keep watching!

Hello jfish, Congratulations on a job done extremely well. I first came across AutoIt about 3 days after I bought this computer - the only previous experience I had with programming was with a mighty monster called a "VIC-20". I would have loved to have something like this when I started with AutoIt. I agree completely with your position that something more is needed for those who are just starting out. I can also add the simple fact that it doesn't hurt to have a straight forward reference around for people like myself who don't always remember the finer points. I'm just starting a new project with AutoIt and I'm looking forward to having your work handy. Once again jfish - Well Done! JAPP