Re: winmm: Add support for "open new" commands.

[Eric Pouech]

2006/6/11, Eric Pouech :
> Peter Åstrand wrote:
> > On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Eric Pouech wrote:
> > > > ChangeLog:
> > > >     winmm: Add support for "open new" commands.
> > >
> > > looks globally good, except that you don't enforce that you got a
> > > correct device name ie I'm not sure that 'open new type waveaudio'
> > > works (without the alias)
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand what you mean, how is the alias related to
> > the verification of a correct device name?
>
> it's not. but I don't think a command like 'open new type waveaudio'
> shall work (as the name of the MCI device would be new in that case,
> which is a reserved keyword). In other words, I think that 'open new'
> should fail if no alias is given.

for the sake of completeness, I tested it on Windows:
mciSendString("open new type wavedaudio", ...) fails with the error
MCIERR_NEW_REQUIRES_ALIAS. This must be properly handled before submission
into Wine.

A+