Memory leak with playing Wave files

[tedsmith]

I get a slight memory leak using the MMControl or using the Wave API calls. Just setting up a simple form to play a 2k beep looses available physical memory bit by bit.
With the MMControl, I used the standard as per the example, stoping and closing the MMControl. I even set the MMControl to a variable and set it to nothing each time it ends using the Sub Done and it still looses memory. About 4k each time I play the beep. Eventually the computer freezes up as though the stack or something has run out even though there is plenty or ram and resources left. I tried it on 3 different computers and get the same result.
With the API calls I cant seem to find one that does the same as closing the MMControl.
The VB Beep control doesnt do it even when I set the default wave file to the same beep.wav in the control panel!
Is there a better third party audio activeX control?
Any suggestions?

 

[bburnell]

Hi,
Try using DirectX.

'*** GLOBAL VARIABLES ***
Public Declare Function sndPlaySound Lib "winmm" Alias "sndPlaySoundA" (ByVal lpszSoundName As String, ByVal uFlags As Long) As Long

'*** SOUND VARIABLES ***
Public Const SND_SYNC = &H0
Public Const SND_ASYNC = &H1
Public Const SND_LOOP = &H8

'*** FORM VARIABLES ***
DICE_SND = GETDIR & "\" & "DICE.WAV"
Call sndPlaySound(ByVal DICE_SND, SND_ASYNC)

I hope this helps!
Brett
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