Lesson 19: Cretaing a DVD Player

In this lesson, you will learn how to create a DVD player that can play a music CD or DVD. It allows the user select a track to play, to fast forward, to rewind and also to eject the CD. It can also display the track being played.

To be able to play multimedia files or multimedia devices, you need to insert Microsoft Multimedia Control into your VB application that you are going to create. However, Microsoft Multimedia Control is not included in the startup toolbox by default, you need to add the  MM control by pressing Ctrl+T and select it from the components dialog.

Figure 19.1 The DVD 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