How to use windows media player control in vb6

Active Oldest Votes. You forgot the backslash between App. Path and "filename". Improve this answer. For me the Play command was unnecessary as assigning the file to the URL property caused the control to immediately begin playing. In your question,use this: wmp.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. Privacy policy. This section describes how to create an application that plays video and has custom play and stop buttons. Add the Windows Media Player control to a form. Resize the control, and then place it where you want the video window to appear. Select the Windows Media Player control, then change the uiMode property to "none".

This setting hides the UI controls. When the user plays a video, it will appear in the window. For audio-only content, a visualization will appear. Some properties or methods may not appear in the Auto List code-completion feature in the Visual Basic code editor.

You can still use those members by typing their names exactly as they appear in this documentation. Manage the visual appearance of the control using the uimode property.

You can do so in two ways. You can use the Select a mode drop-down list in the Windows Media Player Properties dialog box, or you can type the correct value in the Properties window. In particular, do not use the visible property to hide the control; instead, assign the value "invisible" to the uimode property. Player Control Guide. Skip to main content. ShowOpen Text1. FileName End Sub. Now run the program and click on the Open button. A dialog box will appear that allows you to choose your media files, as shown in Figure 4.

After selected the file and click on the Play button, it will play the selected media file as shown in Figure 5. Liew Voon Kiong.