yea we have to rite a cd player in visual basic 6.0 and i was just wondering if anybody could help me figure it out...as of now i am clueless of how to do it thx

Hi, May be you can autodetect if ou have an CD inside the drive or not.

Use the Microsoft Mulitmedia Control (MCI). All the functions to control a CD player are there. All you have to do is design the interface. Put the MCI control on a form, highlight it and press F1. This will give you a description of the all the methods, properties and events of the MCI Stuart

this is for a class remember stuart...thx for the help though....like i need to show my teacher code =/

RazorXP, Even if the project is for a class, there's is still a lot of work to be done to make a workable programme. The MCI control is an intrinsic part of VB and I sure your tutor would expect you to use it, just the same way you would use the Common Dialogue Control to load and save files within VB. If he has told you not to use the MCI control he has left you with one hell of a taks. Loading and playing a multimedia file of CD is no trivial task. Any one not using the MCI control to control a CD player is just re-inventing the wheel. The only other way to do it is to use a lot of API calls - and that could take ages to learn. There are no intrinsic functions in VB to access multimedia files on a CD. Stuart

Stuart ok ill look for the mci, thx for the help