Arguments: device &key quantity-p name-p open-only-p install-name-p
Returns a string or number containing descriptive information about the MCI device as requested by the keyword arguments. Exactly one of quantity-p, name-p, or install-name-p should be passed as true.
If quantity-p is true, then the number of devices
of the same type as device is returned as an integer. If open-only-p
is nil
then this is the number of such
devices that are listed in the registry; if open-only-p is
true then this is the number of such devices that
are currently open.
If name-p is true, then a device name or names
are returned as a string. If open-only-p is true,
then the names for all of the currently open devices are returned. If
open-only-p is nil
, then the device name for
the type of device of device is returned.
If install-name-p is true, then the name of the type of device of mci-device (listed in the registry or the system.ini file) that was used to install the device is returned.
See About MCI support in cgide.htm.
Common Graphics and IDE documentation is described in About Common Graphics and IDE documentation in cgide.htm.
The documentation is described in introduction.htm and the index is in index.htm.
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Created 2000.10.5.