sounds

[bonjour]

When I add a sound to my program, the user can't click on any buttons until the sound is finished playing. How can I have a background sound and still be able to click on buttons and stuff at the same time?

[WP]

What code do you use for playing that sound?

WP

After the code you use to play the sound, put a DoEvents in there, and that should enable you to do anything else while the sound is playing. Although, you shouldn't have this problem.

Use the PlaySound api function.

Private Declare Function PlaySound Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "PlaySoundA" (ByVal lpszName As String, ByVal hModule As Long, ByVal dwFlags As Long) As Long

Private Sub Command1_Click()

    PlaySound "C:\MyFile.wav", 0&, &H1
    DoEvents

End Sub

Well, Escaflowne here, and you can try:

Public Declare Function PlaySd Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "PlaySoundA" (ByVal lpszName As String, ByVal hModule As Long, ByVal dwFlags As Long) As Long

Public Sub SoundPlay (Filename as String)

    PlaySd (Filename, vbNull, &H1 Or &H20000)

End Sub

Public Sub StopSound ()

    PlaySd ("",vbNull, &H1 Or &H20000)

End Sub

Usage:

'Start Sound:
SoundPlay [Filename]
'Stop Sound:
StopSound

Well, Matt of Microsoft, you don't need the "DoEvents" because when &H1 is the last parameter, it already will allow execution.

Escaflowne is correct, Matthew. In your example, you played the sound asynchronously which means the function will return directly after the function was called.

I think, however, that you were referring to playing it synchronously, in which case (logically speaking) it would not work because it does not return until the sound has finished.

No, Megatron, that's not what I mean .

When the last valus is &H1, it is already ASYNC, so the doevents will only slow the program down, so the doevents is not needed.

Oh, and for full compatibility, add " Or &H20000" for "FileName Processing", which means that the first parameter is a filename.

Not really. If you play it asynchronously, it will be slowed down anyway hence DoEvents is simply not needed.