Sending messages to EG (Winamp + Albumlist) - help!

[stisev]

http://albumlist.sourceforge.net/page.php?p=developer

Go to that URL.

For complicated reasons, pressing F3 to bring up the search albums dialogue is NOT an option. Thus, the only other choice that I have is to manually "send a message" to albumlist (winamp) from EG.

However, I'm having a lot of problems. I've never done this before, so my inexperience confounds the difficulty.

I want to use: IPC_JUMPTOALBUM to Brings up the 'Jump to Album' dialog.


I tried this entry, but it didn't work:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<EventGhost Version="1487">
    <Action>
        Window.SendMessage()
    </Action>
</EventGhost>

I don't know if this SendMessage() is doing anything. i entered IPC_JUMPTOALBUM but it doesn't let me save it.

Please help!

[Pako]

Try this macro:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<EventGhost Version="1487">
    <Macro Name="Find Window: Winamp AL" Expanded="True">
        <Action>
            Window.FindWindow(u'winamp.exe', u'Winamp AL', u'Winamp AL', None, None, None, True, 0.0, 0)
        </Action>
        <Action>
            EventGhost.PythonScript(u'from win32gui import SendMessage\nWM_ALL_IPC = 0x0400\nIPC_JUMPTOALBUM = 122\nSendMessage(eg.lastFoundWindows[0], WM_ALL_IPC, IPC_JUMPTOALBUM, 0)')
        </Action>
    </Macro>
</EventGhost>

Pako

[stisev]

Hi Pako,
Thanks for the response. Hang on while I try it!


EDIT:
Pako, wow great! It worked!

Another Q: Let's say I wanted to add another function from:

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from win32gui import SendMessage
WM_ALL_IPC = 0x0400
****IPC_JUMPTOALBUM**** = 122
SendMessage(eg.lastFoundWindows[0], WM_ALL_IPC, ****IPC_JUMPTOALBUM****, 0)

If I changed IPC_JUMPTOALBUM (the **** regions of the code), would it work?


Let's say I wanted to use IPC_PLAYRANDOMALBUM instead of JUMPTOALBUM. Would this work?

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from win32gui import SendMessage
WM_ALL_IPC = 0x0400
****IPC_PLAYRANDOMALBUM**** = 122
SendMessage(eg.lastFoundWindows[0], WM_ALL_IPC, ****IPC_PLAYRANDOMALBUM****, 0)

I guess I could try it and see, but I would like to make sure there would be no adverse affects.

Thanks as always. You're an invaluable resource for this forum!
Sev

EDIT #2:

Apparently I answered my own question. It does (sort of) work, but with errors.
ERROR:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  Python script "16", line 4, in <module>
    SendMessage(eg.lastFoundWindows[0], WM_ALL_IPC, IPC_JUMPTOALBUM, 0)
IndexError: list index out of range

EDIT #3: stand by

[Pako]

http://albumlist.sourceforge.net/page.php?p=developer

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Pako

[stisev]

http://albumlist.sourceforge.net/page.php?p=developer

Winamp.png

Pako

LOL. Sorry for my stupidity! Where exactly do I put that file. I didn't see any instructions on that site and Googled with no luck

[topix]

He means, you should read the file. Then you will find that IPC_PLAYRANDOMALBUM = 102. The code would then look like this:

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from win32gui import SendMessage
WM_ALL_IPC = 0x0400
IPC_PLAYRANDOMALBUM = 102
SendMessage(eg.lastFoundWindows[0], WM_ALL_IPC, IPC_PLAYRANDOMALBUM, 0)