sndPlaySound QUICKIE!

Ok, so I try using the sndPlaySound to play a WAV file, and no matter what I do it doesn't work. Here's what I did.

First, and most obvious, I declared the function. 'Tis in a module. Hehe, i said "tis". Anyway, there's nothing worng with it, but just to rehash,

VB Code:

Public Declare Function sndPlaySound _
  Lib "winmm.dll" (ByVal lpszSoundName As String, _
  ByVal uFlags As Long) As Long
 
Public Const SND_SYNC = &H0
Public Const SND_ASYNC = &H1

K. So there's what I have down in the module. Here is the code I have to play the sound file:

VB Code:

sndPlaySound "shot1.wav", SND_ASYNC

It's in an If statement, nothing's wrong with the If statement. No matter what I do, whether it be getting rid of that flag or using a different flag, this is what I get:

Can't find DLL entry point sndPlaySound in winmm.dll

So, it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong? Other peoples' projects with sound work, but mine doesn't, and I don't see what's so special about it. HELP!!

I've never added sound to my projects, however I noticed this on the vbapi.com website (http://216.26.161.91/vbapi/ref/s/sndplaysound.html)

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NOTE: The function sndPlaySound is obsolete. It is superseded by the PlaySound function.

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Er, perhaps looking at PlaySound would be best?

well i guess i should use the latest function or whatever, but i cant get that one working either! it either says 'argument not optional', or 'type mismatch'. Bah. Can someone tell me the easiest way to just play a sound??

from www.allapi.net...
You need

VB Code:

Public Const SND_FILENAME = &H20000     ' name is a file name

And then

VB Code:

PlaySound "C:\WINDOWS\MEDIA\TADA.WAV", ByVal 0&, SND_FILENAME Or SND_ASYNC

Didn't work. First of all, the function that
I got was called PlaySound_Res, but was also referred to just as PlaySound. There was an alias of PlaySoundA. Does this sound right so far? K, now here's what I did:

VB Code:

PlaySound_Res "shot1.wav", ByVal 0&, SND_FILENAME Or SND_ASYNC

See, if i just used PlaySound instead of PlaySound_Res, it wouldnt do anything, it said 'sub or function not defined'. So using that bit of code above, I get an error of 'Type Mismatch'. WHY AM I HAVING SO MUCH TROUBLE WITH SOUND?? Anybody got any ideas why this isnt working either?

OK, I got the right function now, its not PlaySound_Res, I got the PlaySound one. And I got it to work, using

VB Code:

PlaySound app.path & "\sounds\shot1.wav", ByVal 0&, SND_FILENAME Or SND_ASYNC

Now, though, could you (or someone) explain what the "ByVal 0&, SND_FILENAME Or SND_ASYNC" part of that means? I'd appreciate it.

ByVal 0& is just the handle to the executable file that contains the resource to be loaded. You can set it to 0 or vbNullString if you don't want to load the sound file from a resource. If you do want to, you'll have to provide the flag "SND_RESOURCE" in the next parameter.

SND_FILENAME Or SND_ASYNC are just flags that you provide the the function. SND_FILENAME tells the function that you want to play the sound by providing it a filename. SND_ASYNC play the sounds asynchronously. The function is returned immediately after the function is called.

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ByVal 0& is just the handle to the executable file that contains the resource to be loaded. You can set it to 0 or vbNullString if you don't want to load the sound file from a resource. If you do want to, you'll have to provide the flag "SND_RESOURCE" in the next parameter.

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K. what do you mean by resource? and the executable file you're talking about, is that the one that is made of that project?

And "If I want to, I'll have to provide SND_RESOURCE in the next paramater." what's that mean?

I switched ByVal 0& to just plain 0, and I see no difference whatsoever. I didn't include any SND_RESOURCE either. BTW when I declare the SND_RESOURCE const, uhh, what's the value?

You only have to worry about snd_resource if you have the file you want to play in a resource-file... If you don't know what a resource file is you don't have to worry =) Or you could use google.com to find out...

okies thnx!

How can I fix the previous code to play 2 sounds at once?

For that, you'll have to use the old W3.1 "Wavemix.dll" or go for DirectSound, I believe. Though I've only used sndPlaySound, not just PlaySound. Maybe it can do that already.

Anyone have a step by step on this? I did a search but everything came up as C++ code and tutorials. Also I could not make the "make" files work so I could even attempt a translation. The API's needed were not in my api viewer but yet the samples of precompiled exe's worked. PLEASE,PLEASE HELP!