Help programming MIDI with perl on windows. I found on CPAN and
installed Win32api::MIDI on my ActiveState perl release. My problem is
thatI can't find any examples for using this package. Doing a google
search on Win32api::MIDI shows darn few hits of any sort much less any
examples. There are many examples of Linux based perl MIDI programs but
I couldn't find any for Windows and I am pretty sure that the lower levels
are incompatable. Any help that gets me a working example will answer
this question, eithor a web pointer or a simple program you write for
me. The program should at least output midi events, probably
to the built in MIDI device that goes to the sound card.

Hi there,

A search of the cpan.org website found a page that describes the
Win32API-MIDI package. The page contains example code with various
samples that should run and can be found at
http://search.cpan.org/~hayashi/Win32API-MIDI-0.05/MIDI.pm

The example pasted below is for outputting short midi events but if
you visit the site and click on example you will find the entire code
sample.

  use Win32API::MIDI qw( /^(MIM_)/ );
  $midi = new Win32API::MIDI;

  # MIDI::Out::ShortMsg
  $mo = new Win32API::MIDI::Out         or die $midi->OutGetErrorText();
  $mo->ShortMsg(0x00403C90)             or die $mo->GetErrorText();
  sleep(1);
  $mo->ShortMsg(0x00003C90)             or die $mo->GetErrorText();
  $mo->Close                            or die $mo->GetErrorText();

In addition to the example on the description page above, there are a
few examples in another directory at
http://search.cpan.org/src/HAYASHI/Win32API-MIDI-0.05/t/ . The
midiout.t example is especially relevant to what you're trying to do
and is at http://search.cpan.org/src/HAYASHI/Win32API-MIDI-0.05/t/midiout.t

As well, make sure you have a recent perl distribution as some of the
test (.t) examples require perl 5.8.0 or above.

I hope this solves your problem. If not, please feel free to ask for
clarification before rating this answer and I'll be happy to help you
out.

Thanks,
Deadlychiapet

Search strategy:
win32api::midi
://www.google.ca/search?q=win32api%3A%3Amidi

Properly answers the question. I was hoping for more than the package
authors examples but I didn't specify this so this is my problem not
yours. Nobody seems to be using this package except the author. I had
the first reference already because it came with the package but I
missed the next two which were good finds.