[fpc-pascal] mciSendString with long file names

[James Richters]

I'm trying to get mciSendString() to work with long file names with spaces
in them and I'm not having any success.
I know with winnows you need quotes around long file names, so I'm trying
things like this:
 
Var MySoundFile:String;
mciSendString(PChar('play '+Ansistring(#34+MySoundFile+#34)),Nil,0,0);
 
But still it works if my file name has no spaces, but does not work if there
are spaces.
I think maybe it's my conversion to a PChar, but it works as long as there
are no spaces, so I don't know.
 
The name of my file is in a string because it comes from a record with a
string variable in it.. part of another whole system that I don't want to
change just to get this to work.
 
Any one have any ideas how to get long file names with spaces to work?
 
James
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