Creating Multimedia Applications

You can create various multimedia applications in VB that could play audio CD, audiofiles, VCD , video files and more.
To be able to play multimedia files or multimedia devices, you have to insert Microsoft Multimedia Control into your VB applications that you are going to create. However, Microsoft Multimedia Control is not normally included in the startup toolbox, therefore you need to add the MM control by pressing Ctrl+T and select it from the components dialog box that is displayed.
1. Creating a CD player


The Code
Private Sub Form_Load()
'To position the page at the center
Left = (Screen.Width - Width) \ 2
Top = (Screen.Height - Height) \ 2
'Initialize the CD
myCD.Command = "Open"

End Sub


Private Sub myCD_StatusUpdate()


'Update the track number
trackNum.Caption = myCD.Track
End Sub



Private Sub Next_Click()
myCD.Command = "Next"
End Sub



Private Sub Play_Click()
myCD.Command = "Play"

End Sub



Private Sub Previous_Click()
myCD.Command = "Prev"
End Sub

Private Sub Stop_Click()
myCD.Command = "Stop"
End Sub