NAME

       WildMidi_Open - Open a midi file for processing

LIBRARY

       libWildMidi

SYNOPSIS

       #include <wildmidi_lib.h>

       midi *WildMidi_Open (const char *midifile)

DESCRIPTION

       Open  a  MIDI  type  file pointed to by midifile for processing. This file must be in HMP,
       HMI, MIDI, or XMIDI format.

RETURN VALUE

       Returns NULL on error and sends a message to stderr, otherwise returns a  handle  for  the
       midi  file  opened. This handle is used by most functions in libWildMidi to identify which
       midi file we are referring to.

SEE ALSO

       WildMidi_GetVersion(3),            WildMidi_Init(3),             WildMidi_MasterVolume(3),
       WildMidi_OpenBuffer(3),            WildMidi_SetOption(3),           WildMidi_GetOutput(3),
       WildMidi_GetMidiOutput(3), WildMidi_GetInfo(3),  WildMidi_FastSeek(3),  WildMidi_Close(3),
       WildMidi_Shutdown(3), wildmidi.cfg(5)

AUTHOR

       Chris Ison <chrisisonwildcode@gmail.com> Bret Curtis <psi29a@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) WildMidi Developers 2001-2016

       This file is part of WildMIDI.

       WildMIDI  is  free software: you can redistribute and/or modify the player under the terms
       of the GNU General Public License and you can redistribute and/or modify the library under
       the  terms  of  the  GNU  Lesser  General Public License as published by the Free Software
       Foundation, either version 3 of the licenses, or(at your option) any later version.

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                                          10 March 2016                          WildMidi_Open(3)