Sounds

How can I get my program to play a sound when I press a key, or click somewhere? Like:

If keycode = 17 then
'play sound
end if
end sub

Enter this in a code module:

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


and call it fram the form like this:

sndPlaySound soundName, SND_ASYNC

where soundName is a string holding the directory and filename of your wav file...

it depends on what type of sound you want to play if you just want to make a windows beep type in Beep other wise youll have to use the code in the above post unless their are other ways i dont know of.

There is many ways to do a thing, but wav files....my way...beeps...dogfish227s way...would probably be the best for your game...

Yea, i already have sounds added that way, but what i want is some back ground music, and since MP3 is the only kind i have, is there a way to add that, and so the game doesnt actualy stop while its playing?

DirectShow should be able to play MP3 in the background.

direct show?

lol ,
he means Direct Sound
which contains huge api functions giving you full control of the sound card , even its memory .

When I say DirectShow then I mean DirectShow.

DirectSound is not capable of playing MP3s without you writing the decoder. But DirectShow is capable of reading and playing MP3s.

I might also suggest FMod, get your feet wet with professional sound features without going into DirectX :)

www.fmod.org

It can play wave, ogg vorbis, mp3, pcm, etc. and it's free if your app is.