playing sounds

[kpooi]

Im a new in making games.

So please help me out.

Here is the question:


How do i play a sound when triggered by an event ?
and
How the hell do i attach a sound file into my form so that it will be inside the exe file ?


Hmmm....do i sound like an idiot ?

Oh by the way, can i play mp3 files ?

[Jim Davis]

you can play a wav with this api call:

Private Declare Function PlaySound Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "PlaySoundA" (ByVal lpszName As String, ByVal hModule As Long, ByVal dwFlags As Long) As Long
Const SND_ASYNC = &H1
Const SND_NODEFAULT = &H2
Const SND_FILENAME = &H20000
 
Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim retval As Long
 
retval = PlaySound("C:\anna.wav", 0, SND_FILENAME Or SND_ASYNC Or SND_NODEFAULT)
 
End Sub

click here if you need more information about this call

>Oh by the way, can i play mp3 files ?
with this api call i think u cant, you will need a mp3 player dll or something...

R,
Jim.

[kpooi]

can u please explain what are these for ?
SND_ASYNC = &H1
SND_NODEFAULT = &H2
SND_FILENAME = &H20000


Thanks for the help.

[kpooi]

ooops
didnt see the link.


Anyone knows how to store the file in the exe file ?

[Jim Davis]

man i think u cant.. try to make a resource file...

[Bazza81]

If you use a resource file then extract the file into a byte array. Then make a temporary file to export the byte array into and there you go, a wave file for you to play. Just make sure you delete the wave file when the program terminates!