Sounds

[insaneman]

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

[NoteMe]

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...

[dogfish227]

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.

[NoteMe]

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

[insaneman]

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?

[CornedBee]

DirectShow should be able to play MP3 in the background.

[insaneman]

direct show?

[Pirate]

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

[CornedBee]

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.

[Sastraxi]

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.