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Producing a Dialog Box for Selecting a Specific Type of Format

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[The feature associated with this page, Audio Compression Manager, is a legacy feature. Microsoft strongly recommends that new code does not use this feature.]

You might want an application to allow the user to select a format from a restricted list of formats in a dialog box. Restrictions might limit the number of channels, the sampling rate, the waveform-audio format tag, or the number of bits per sample. In all of these cases, you can generate the list by using the acmFormatChoose function, setting the fdwEnum and pwfxEnum members of the ACMFORMATCHOOSE structure. The following example illustrates this process.

MMRESULT            mmr; 
ACMFORMATCHOOSE     afc; 
WAVEFORMATEX        wfxSelection; 
WAVEFORMATEX        wfxEnum; 
 
// Initialize the ACMFORMATCHOOSE members. 
memset(&afc, 0, sizeof(afc)); 
 
afc.cbStruct    = sizeof(afc); 
afc.fdwStyle    = 0L;               // no special style flags 
afc.hwndOwner   = hwnd;             // hwnd of parent window 
afc.pwfx        = &wfxSelection;    // wfx to receive selection 
afc.cbwfx       = sizeof(wfxSelection); 
afc.pszTitle    = TEXT("16 Bit PCM Selection"); 
 
//  Request that all 16-bit PCM formats be displayed for the user 
//  to select from. 
memset(&wfxEnum, 0, sizeof(wfxEnum)); 
wfxEnum.wFormatTag = WAVE_FORMAT_PCM; 
wfxEnum.wBitsPerSample = 16; 
afc.fdwEnum = ACM_FORMATENUMF_WFORMATTAG | 
    ACM_FORMATENUMF_WBITSPERSAMPLE; 
afc.pwfxEnum = &wfxEnum; 
mmr = acmFormatChoose(&afc); 
if ((MMSYSERR_NOERROR != mmr) && (ACMERR_CANCELED != mmr)) 
{ 
    // There was a fatal error in bringing up the list 
    // dialog box (probably invalid input parameters). 
}