Playing tones through the conmputer speaker

[tedsmith]

I have a set of APIs for the original VisualBasic (before they even had a version number) that played tones of different pitch and duration through the speaker. They worked with MSAccess version 2 but dont work with VB6 (error message says it cant find the reference in the DLL)
Anybody any ideas on how to do it with VCB6?

 

[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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[tedsmith]

Thanks Brett but sndPlaySound merely plays a wave file that is on the disk through the output of the sound card. I want to make a sound through the speaker attached to the mother board (one you can hear even if you don't have a sound card)
You can play tones of various frequencies and durations when you click on various command boxes or graphics.
has anyone any info on this?
Quickbasic and Visualbasic version 1 had the commands built in. And if I try to use the API, it says that the DLL called has not got the sound routine in it.

 

[bburnell]

Try this link. These are all the APIs I know of for sound apps.
Brett

http://www.vbapi.com/ref/funcc.html#audio

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