sound files

[nicasa]

Hi There,

I am currently developing an application called audio quiz which requires the user to listen to questions rather than read them.
Currently, I am using a 'system(mplayer2.exe filename.wav)' function call to invoke the standard win media player and allow the user to listen to a .wav file. This does not seem very satisfactory and am wondering how I can play .wav files without explicitly making a system call.

I know that you can create a .rc file at design time which will compile all resources (.wav files here) into a .res file directly.

Are there other better ways to use sound files that the user can either specify or can be read from a text file.

What help resources are available on dealing with resources ?

All help much appreciated,


Steven Matthews

 

[BTecho]

Hello.

You can use the standard TMediplayer component that already comes with C++Builder to play wav files.C++Builder help as a lot more info and examples.

Also you can use PlaySound WinAPI ,

PlaySound("c:\\TestSound.wav",NULL,SND_FILENAME);

then you can use this line to stop the playing

PlaySound(NULL, NULL, NULL);

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/multimed/mmfunc_9uxw.asp