Playing wav files in a program. 2

[nicktherod]

I want to play a wav file in my program. For example when a user reply yes to a message box i would like to play the windows Tada.wav.

Many thanks in advance.

Nick

 

[KeithBrautigam]

Please give the PlaySound function a shot. You can read about it at

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/multimed/mmfunc_9uxw.htm

Note that you'll probably need to include <MMSystem.h> and link to WinMM.lib.

 

[nicktherod]

I've just tried the PlaySound function and i just get a compiling error. The compiler doesn't recognise it. Maybe i am missing a piece of the puzzle.

 

[KeithBrautigam]

Another thing that might work (I didn't try it) is to use the ShellExecute function. That should allow you to &quot;launch&quot; a wave file, just as if it had been double clicked in Windows Explorer.

 

[Mongooses]

What kind of error did you get with PlaySound? You need a handle to HMODULE and i think (but can't remember and am not on a machine with MSDN) need to include mmsystem.h This is how I usually play sounds.

HMODULE hmodThis = GetModuleHandle(NULL);
PlaySound(m_sPath, hmodThis, SND_FILENAME | SND_ASYNC);


HTH,
JC

 

[nicktherod]

Mongoose. I tried your code, but i get a linking error.

 

[nicktherod]

Keith

I tried the ShellExecute, but it opens open RealJukebox to play it, which is not really what i want.

thanx for the suggestion though.

 

[TonyPDean]

Nick,

PlaySound should work. You don't say what the linking error is, but have you included winmm.lib in your project. This contains PlaySound and other multimedia API's.

tony.dean@aeat.co.uk