Blitz used for control application?

I'd be mighty interested to be able to control the audio control panel on a computer via a program.

I don't want it eating loads of CPU cycles when it's just sat there doing nothing.

I don't know which of the 3 blitzs would be best to use, can any of them do this at all? If one or more can, then which is the best choice for such a task.

I'd like to control all the sliders in the regular audio control panel, including those for recording/input mode. I'd also like to be able to "tick" boxes this way too.

I don't want to see the audio panel while this happens. The program could live in the tray if that's do-able too, but it's not an absolute requirement. I'd prefer it if there was no window, as that would just get in the way.

Any suggestions as to the weapon of choice here anyone? (even if it's not a blitz variant)

Not to turn BlitzMax down on this, but honestly, I'd use a language more
tailored to automation, such as "Visual DialogScript", "AutoHotKey" or
"AutoIT". These language have commands and functions specific to controling
the system and or other applications.

You could probably do it all in BlitzMax, but I believe you'd be putting in a whole
lot of time with API calls.

I could be wrong, but from what I currently know of BlitzMax and the other
three languages I noted.

-Garrett

Gonna have to agree. Blitz languages do not seem like the right tool for the job here. Could you do it with them? Sure. Is it the best/most efficient way to do it? I tend to think not.

PowerBasic

PureBASIC perhaps.

Powerbasic is real beast..you'll be surprised to hear how much job in Sony is done for MCU programming by this thing..

Yeah, looks like it wont be a blitz of any sort.

I got my pet coder on it now, he's good with just about all sorts, I was simply trying to be a bit brand loyal, but hell it needs to be a bit customer loyal, and it seems it just isnt right now, at least not for this one.

Oh well, thanks for the suggestions, I looked over that powebasic. It has virtually no sound commands in it anyway. Obviously a very quiet "beast" then! ;O)

PowerBASIC doesn't have much in the way of graphical & sound commands, but it does give you full access to the windows API, and is pretty speedy with a small footprint... And it can create DLL's as well as normal EXE's.

Visual Basic