I'm writing a remote admin program in perl. I can do everything I want to do except load a file into the playlist. Here is an example written in C from the winamp api page.

COPYDATASTRUCT cds;
cds.dwData = id;
cds.lpData = (void*)data;
cds.cbData = data_length;
SendMessage(hwndWinamp,WM_COPYDATA,(WPARAM)NULL,(LPARAM)&cds);

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Does anyone know how to do this in perl. I want to learn C eventually, but I really don't want to take the time to learn it right now. I'm still learning perl :-)

I'm thinking this looks a lot like a hash, and I have SendMessage via Win32::GUI. Although, I DON'T think it has WM_COPYDATA.

I know I could make a xs sub, but from the little I've read about it so far, it seems as though I would have to learn a fair amount of C to do that too.

Is it possible to do this using only perl? Any feedback will be appreciated.

In reply to loading a file in winamp using perl by joker0927

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