Playing WAVs RES files

How do you play a wav sound that is embeded in a resource file? (And how do you stop it playing!!)

I'd rather not have to save it to disk first, if at all possible.

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Matthew Ralston
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Doesn't matter, I've figured it out myself...

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Matthew Ralston
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let us in on the secret then! :)

Mark Sreeves Analyst Programer Softlab A BMW Group Company not know this?

Is your job title as cool as it sounds? Or is it just a great name for a boring overated job?

Nuf chat...

Resource file compiled with vb app, wave sound to play has a resource id string of 101...

Code:

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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 Const SND_NODEFAULT = &H2
Private Const FLAGS = SND_ASYNC And SND_NODEFAULT


Public Sub PlayWavResource(pintResourceID As Integer)
    Dim bytArr() As Byte
    Dim intFFN As Integer
    Dim strPath As String
    bytArr = LoadResData(pintResourceID, "CUSTOM")
    strPath = App.Path & IIf(Right(App.Path, 1) = "\", "~tempwav.wav", "\~tempwav.wav")
    intFFN = FreeFile
    Open strPath For Binary As intFFN
    Put #intFFN, , bytArr
    Close #intFFN
    Call sndPlaySound(strPath, FLAGS)
    Kill strPath
End Sub

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Unfortuantely it does copy the wave to a temp file first, we'll just have to put up with it... :(

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Matthew Ralston
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[This message has been edited by matthewralston (edited 01-07-2000).]

Not exactly:

Code:

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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 Const SND_NODEFAULT = &H2
Private Const FLAGS = SND_ASYNC And SND_NODEFAULT


Public Sub PlayWavResource(pintResourceID As Integer)
    Dim bytArr() As Byte
    Dim intFFN As Integer
    Dim strPath As String
    bytArr = LoadResData(pintResourceID, "CUSTOM")
    Call sndPlaySound(StrConv(bytArr, vbUnicode), FLAGS)
End Sub

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Serge

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Cool!

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Matthew Ralston
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