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								| midiOutShortMsg The midiOutShortMsg function sends a short MIDI message to the specified MIDI output device. | VB4-32,5,6 Declare Function midiOutShortMsg Lib "winmm.dll" (ByVal hMidiOut As Long, ByVal dwMsg As Long) As Long
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 | Requires Windows NT 3.1 or later; Requires Windows 95 or later | 
 
 | · hmo Handle of the MIDI output device. This parameter can also be the handle of a MIDI stream cast to HMIDIOUT.
 
 · dwMsg
 MIDI message. The message is packed into a doubleword value with the first byte of the message in the low-order byte. The message is packed into this parameter as follows:
 High word    High-order byte   Not used.
 Low-order byte    Contains a second byte of MIDI data (when needed).
 Low word     High-order byte   Contains the first byte of MIDI data (when needed).
 Low-order byte    Contains the MIDI status.
 
 The two MIDI data bytes are optional, depending on the MIDI status byte. When a series of messages have the same status byte, the status byte can be omitted from messages after the first one in the series, creating a running status. Pack a message for running status as follows:
 High word    High-order byte   Not used.
 Low-order byte    Not used.
 Low word     High-order byte   Contains a second byte of MIDI data (when needed).
 Low-order byte    Contains the first byte of MIDI data.
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 | Returns MMSYSERR_NOERROR if successful or an error otherwise. Possible error values include the following: MIDIERR_BADOPENMODE
 The application sent a message without a status byte to a stream handle.
 
 MIDIERR_NOTREADY
 The hardware is busy with other data.
 
 MMSYSERR_INVALHANDLE
 The specified device handle is invalid.
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