4.297 TimeFormat Property

Description:	Defines the time units used in the MCI control. This affects the MediaPosition and MediaLength properties.
Used in control(s):	MCI
Values (with constants):	0 - Millisecond(POW-MCIFORMATMILLISECONDS) 2 - Minute/second/frame(POW-MCIFORMATMSF) 3 - Frame(POW-MCIFORMATFRAMES) 10 - Track/minute/second/frame(POW-MCIFORMATTMSF) The value is undefined until the MCI driver is open. Specifiable values vary between MCI drivers. When TimeFormat is 0 or 3, the times are held as four byte quantities defining the number of milliseconds or frames. When TimeFormat is 2, the data is stored in the lower three bytes: Lowest order byte:Minutes 2nd lowest order byte:Seconds 3rd lowest order byte:Frames When TimeFormat is 10, the data is stored in the four bytes: Lowest order byte:Tracks 2nd lower order byte:Minutes 3rd lower order byte:Seconds 4th lower order byte:Frames See the MediaLength Sample Code for an example of how to extract the track, minute, second and frame information. Note: For Intel 80x86 CPU platforms (the usual platform for Windows) low-high ordering of bytes is reversed compared to normal COBOL byte ordering. Using COMP-5 normally takes care of this for you, but you need to be aware of the reverse byte order when unpicking multiple bytes as in the above sample.
Default value:	None.
COBOL picture:	S9(4) COMP-5
OLE data type:	VT_I2
Design time access:	Not accessible.
Execution time access:	Set and reference.
Backward compatibility attribute:	POW-MCITIMEFORMATPIC S9(4) COMP-5