play status of windows media player 12

[targeter]

I am trying to capture the current playing of windows media player 12. If you use winexists, the return is immediate if the program is running. By using ControlFocus with WMP Skin Host/WMPlayerApp and "ervhandler1" it goes into an infinite 0.

When I click on a audio or video file, there is a possibility based on the computer hardware that it may take time for the media file to load. I want autoit to check if the file is currently playing before the script proceeds. Is there a way to do this?

I suppose I could use the WMP udf and check for the existance of duration, but I want to see if I can do this without having to use the _create command it requires http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=27352

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=52961 - This looks promising, but I have trouble figuring out exactly how it might be implemented.

Edited August 18, 2010 by targeter

[Tvern]

I think you can use the WMP UDF, but use ObjGet() instead of _Create().

Edit: Actually I can't get it to work with either parameter. :<

Edited August 18, 2010 by Tvern

[targeter]

was it from using his wmp.au3? I guess I will experiment too, just curious what you did.

[Tvern]

Nah I can't get the object of the running WMP. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, or if the WMP object isn't retrievable with ObjGet.

I'm affraid I'm a little out of my league.