80.6.2 Querying MIDI Input Devices

Before recording MIDI audio, you should call the midiInGetDevCaps function to determine the capabilities of the MIDI input hardware present in the system. This function takes a pointer to a MIDIINCAPS structure, which it fills with information about the capabilities of a given device. This information includes the manufacturer and product IDs, a product name for the device, and the version number of the device driver. MMSYSTEM.H defines the MIDIINCAPS structure as follows:

typedef struct midiincaps_tag {

UINT wMid; /* manufacturer ID */

UINT wPid; /* product ID */

VERSION vDriverVersion; /* driver version */

char szPname[MAXPNAMELEN]; /* product name */

} MIDIINCAPS;