Serge...Meg....this is a tough one

Ok we play wav files for certain events, indicating successful conclusion or a complete shanmbles. With the successful conclusion we also play a gif file. Now this all appears to work honky dory....

....but.....

loaded the app to a new clients site last night, they are using 486s sad but true......Everything works...except it is noticable that the wav plays before the gif begins...

Does any know how to get them to operate in tandem. Kind of rather than

Play Sound
Play Gif

more like Play Sound & Gif

Not a huge problem, but does tenbd to stick in the mind as something that should be possible.

Thanks in Advance.

[kedaman]

What do you mean Gif's a graphical format while wav is audio. If you mean to show a gif while playing a wav just load the gif into a picturebox and use sndplaysound api to play the wav

Ok no problems playing ani gifs and wav files in tandem.

Problem is playing animations through bltbit and wav files through sndplaysound in tandem. Would appear vb does not multi task. How do ya get the API calls to work at the same time, do we have to throw in C++ routines????????

[Chris]

Will it be possible for you to combine the Gif and Sound into Avi format? I think it should be able to solve your problem.

[Aaron Young]

Have you tried playing the WAV Asynchronously, meaning the code doesn't wait for the WAV to finish playing before executing the next line(s) of code?

Private Declare Function sndPlaySound Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "sndPlaySoundA" (ByVal lpszSoundName As String, ByVal uFlags As Long) As Long
Private Const SND_ASYNC = &H1

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    'Play the WAV Asynchronously
    sndPlaySound "C:\Windows\Media\The Microsoft Sound.wav", SND_ASYNC
    'Play GIF here
End Sub

Isn't it always the simple answers ya don't think of. As l stated wasn't a huge problem, but was still a distraction. Will try out tonight on Client's site