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Win32Lib: PlaySound parameters

• Posted by Dan Moyer <DanMoyer at PRODIGY.NET> Nov 02, 1999
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David,

Can you give me some more information about PlaySound & its parameters?

  I'm using it to give voice to some math flash cards & my problem is that
in SYNCHRONOUS mode (1,0) some related list boxes which are variously
supposed to be made invisible & visible BEFORE the sounds begin to play,
instead disappear & don't reappear until it is FINISHED playing (which
looks bad), while in ASYNCHRONOUS mode (0,1) it only plays the LAST wave
file requested (although it treats the list boxes ok).

I like how ASYNC lets various user actions interrupt PlaySound, but I can't
use it if I can't get it to play a sequence of waves one after another
rather than just the last requested as it's doing.

  There appears to be a flag which can be set in the PlaySound function
called "SND_NOSTOP" which if set returns false if PlaySound is busy already
playing something, which would seem to let me put each successive wave to
be played into a test loop to see if the previous one is finished or not;
but I don't know how to set that flag in PlaySound.

(I'm not sure that approach would still preserve the "interruptibility" I
like about ASYNC mode, but I can't try it if I can't set the flag; I tried
something similar with ASYNC by putting time delays between successive
sounds, but while that worked to make a succession of wave files play, it
made the list box controls disappear just like SYNC mode. If there were
some way to send PlaySound async a "play list", that would seem to be
optimal, but I suspect that's not an option.)

Dan Moyer