Play a midi music file (BCX basic)

' uses the mci-library to play a midi file (.mid)
' the mci-libary winmm.lib is in PellesC\lib\win
' needs BCX basic, download the free package from:
' http://www.rjpcomputing.com/programming/bcx/devsuite.html

$LIBRARY <winmm.lib>

' this generates WinMain() and sets the Classname
GUI "MIDI3"

CONST ID_Button1 = 101

DIM Form1 AS HWND
DIM Butt1 AS CONTROL
DIM MciCommand$

' required to create the form and it's components
SUB FORMLOAD
  Form1 = BCX_FORM("Play a Midi ...",30,20,140,40 )
  Butt1 = BCX_BUTTON("Play",Form1,ID_Button1,10,10,30,12)
  DECLARE FUNCTION MCI_Execute LIB "winmm.dll" ALIAS "mciExecute" (A$)
  Show(Form1)
END SUB

' code between BEGIN EVENTS/END EVENTS takes care of the event messages
BEGIN EVENTS
SELECT CASE CBMSG
  CASE WM_CREATE
    EXIT FUNCTION
  CASE WM_COMMAND
    IF CBCTL = ID_Button1 THEN
      '
      ' this plays TheRose.mid or change to whatever you have ...
      '
      MciCommand$ = "play TheRose.mid"
      MCI_Execute (MciCommand$)
      EXIT FUNCTION
    END IF
  ' clean up and exit properly
  CASE WM_CLOSE
    mciSendString ("close all",0,0,0)
    DestroyWindow (Form1)
    EXIT FUNCTION
END SELECT
END EVENTS