Playsound and .RC options to play two or more .Wav files

[Mike Trader]

This is a subject i have been getting to for a long time.
I have read Poffs over and over on the subject. I have written about 10 examples and tried every combination and permutation you can think of. I have tried Names, Numbers etc etc to make sure i have not missed anything.

This works:
#COMPILE EXE "PlayRc.exe"
#INCLUDE "WIN32API.INC"
#RESOURCE "Sound.PBR"

'sound.rc
'DING SOUND DING.WAV

FUNCTION PBMAIN
PlaySound "DING", BYVAL GetModuleHandle(BYVAL %NULL), %SND_RESOURCE OR %SND_SYNC
MSGBOX "done"
END FUNCTION

This does work: (plays 2 .wav files)
#COMPILE EXE "PlayRc.exe"
#INCLUDE "WIN32API.INC"
#RESOURCE "Sound.PBR"

'sound.rc
'DING SOUND DING.WAV
'BITE SOUND BITE.WAV

FUNCTION PBMAIN() AS LONG

LOCAL lpWav AS BYTE PTR
hInst&=GetModuleHandle("")
hRes& = FindResource(hInst&,"DING",BYVAL %RT_RCDATA)
lpWav = LockResource(LoadResource(hInst&, hRes&))
CALL PlaySound(BYVAL lpWav,hInst&,%SND_MEMORY OR %SND_ASYNC)
FreeResource hRes&
MSGBOX "done"

hInst&=GetModuleHandle("")
hRes& = FindResource(hInst&,"BITE",BYVAL %RT_RCDATA)
lpWav = LockResource(LoadResource(hInst&, hRes&))
CALL PlaySound(BYVAL lpWav,hInst&,%SND_MEMORY OR %SND_ASYNC)
FreeResource hRes&
MSGBOX "done"

END FUNCTION

This Does Not Work: (it will not play the second .wav but NOT the first)
#COMPILE EXE "PlayRc.exe"
#INCLUDE "WIN32API.INC"
#RESOURCE "Sound.PBR"

'sound.rc
'DING SOUND DING.WAV
'BITE SOUND BITE.WAV

FUNCTION PBMAIN
PlaySound "DING", BYVAL GetModuleHandle(BYVAL %NULL), %SND_RESOURCE OR %SND_SYNC
PlaySound "BITE", BYVAL GetModuleHandle(BYVAL %NULL), %SND_RESOURCE OR %SND_SYNC
MSGBOX "done"
END FUNCTION


Why doesnt this work?

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Kind Regards
Mike

[Mike Trader]

Oops the .RC file for the second example (the one that does play two sound files, should be:
'sound.rc
'DING RCDATA DING.WAV
'BITE RCDATA BITE.WAV

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Kind Regards
Mike

[Jules Marchildon]

Sorry Mike,

I tried your tests examples and also read all the posts. About
a month ago I was trying to use your method two, but to no avail
could not find a reason why it would not work.

I used similar code to your first example and also used code to play
waves from file for now.

This is still a mystery...

Regards,
Jules

Oh! And this interesting note, PlaySound() is a wrapper for the
sndPlaySound() function, that is it does the "find, load, lock, unlock,
and free the resource". So just maybe, the parameters passed by the
PB version of the api PlaySound() function could be wrong since your
first example works.



[This message has been edited by Jules Marchildon (edited June 15, 2001).]

[Mike Trader]

Jules,

Are you saying this does not work for you...

This does work: (plays 2 .wav files)
#COMPILE EXE "PlayRc.exe"
#INCLUDE "WIN32API.INC"
#RESOURCE "Sound.PBR"

'sound.rc
'DING RCDATA DING.WAV
'BITE RCDATA BITE.WAV

FUNCTION PBMAIN() AS LONG

LOCAL lpWav AS BYTE PTR
hInst&=GetModuleHandle("")
hRes& = FindResource(hInst&,"DING",BYVAL %RT_RCDATA)
lpWav = LockResource(LoadResource(hInst&, hRes&))
CALL PlaySound(BYVAL lpWav,hInst&,%SND_MEMORY OR %SND_ASYNC)
FreeResource hRes&
MSGBOX "done"

hInst&=GetModuleHandle("")
hRes& = FindResource(hInst&,"BITE",BYVAL %RT_RCDATA)
lpWav = LockResource(LoadResource(hInst&, hRes&))
CALL PlaySound(BYVAL lpWav,hInst&,%SND_MEMORY OR %SND_ASYNC)
FreeResource hRes&
MSGBOX "done"

END FUNCTION

Are you compiling the resource ok?
This works for me but it cumbersome. The other method is alot slicker and should work!



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Kind Regards
Mike

[Jules Marchildon]

Mike--

Yes, that is correct, using the Find,lock,Play,unlock method works
like yours. The PlaySound() api call does not. BTW, if you use the
find-lock-play-unlock method you should use sndPlaySound() api not the
Playsound(), since Playsound() does that for you otherwise you are
really doing a "find-lock-play-unlock" twice. I am still convinced that
a parameter being passed by the PB PlaySound() api conversion is wrong,
I just have not figured which one yet...

---Jules

[Mike Trader]

OK I got you. Ill use sndPLaySound() instead.

I think we have found a PB bug! - Lance ...

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Kind Regards
Mike

[Lance Edmonds]

Really? Your code is almost completely API code, so it looks much more likely that you are actually having API problems.

Please note that there was an update to PBRES some months ago which was designed to cure a problem where some resource types could not be loaded from the resource file, especially when the PBR included multiple WAV files.

You may want to make sure you are using the latest version of PBRES, which can be obtained from the DOWNLOADS section.


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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A>

[Mike Trader]

Thx lance.

For those following this thread the new version of PBRES is at: http://www.powerbasic.com/files/pub/pbwin/
The bug is fixed. Multiple Wavs play fine

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Kind Regards
Mike