Close Media Player

[Massimo Visintin]

Hello everyone, I'am building a simple application that open in automatic every ten minutes an mpeg file with Windows Media Player but I don't know how to close the application automatically at the end of the video file reproduction.

To open the file I used the "Fileman open file.vi" so the application is automatically associated to the type of file.

Thanks for the time

Massimo Visintin

[tst]

How about using the Quit Application VI?

You will have to get the window name in order to close the application, but you will need to that anyway. You can use the other VIs to do this (Get Task List and so on).

Other options would be to use ActiveX, either embedded in the front panel (AX container) or called externally.

[Massimo Visintin]

Yes, my idea is to use the Quit Application.vi but the problem for me is to calculate when the file I select time by time finish its reproduction. In other words I need to know when the AVI or MPEG finish playing

Thanks, Massimo Visintin

[tst]

Well, the only ways I can think of are either to connect to the WMP window somehow and extract the information or read the file yourself to see how long it is. I'm sure they're both possible, but I don't know how to do them.

How about my other suggestion of using ActiveX?

[Massimo Visintin]

Thanks for your suggestion. I think I will put the time of file manually, for the moment.

About using ActiveX, I don'like to use it, I prefer to open windows Media Palyer on the second monitor.

Thanks.