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128 Voices in Windows WINMM.DLL - GordonSweet - 02-25-2005
Until some clever one can come up with a way of accessing the 128 Voices in Windows WINMM.DLL using FB here is a simple program produced with BBC BASIC for Windows.
http://sionet.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/voice.zip
Just unzip and click in VOICE.EXE which will display instructions and a list of the voices. The voices can be invoked from a BAT file etc such as
VOICE note(20-110),voice(1-128),duration(10-1000)
Try creating a .bat file using Notepad to play a Tinker Bell as
VOICE 90,113,1000
Or compile a QB program with just
shell "VOICE 90,113,1000"
The only problem is the screen going blank such as when compiling with FB.
Gordon :rotfl:
128 Voices in Windows WINMM.DLL - ShadowWolf - 02-25-2005
being bored i want and looked up some winmm stuff
here some code to play .wav files
note you need lib libwinmm.a to use. you can get this from your friendly MingW package.
Code:
#define SND_ASYNC &H1
#define SND_LOOP &H8
#define SND_NODEFAULT &H2
#define SND_SYNC &H0
#define SND_NOSTOP &H10
#define SND_MEMORY &H4
Declare Function sndPlaySound Lib "winmm" Alias "sndPlaySoundA" (ByVal lpszSoundName As String, ByVal uFlags As integer) As integer
sndPlaySound "chimes.wav", SND_ASYNC or SND_LOOP
sleep 3000128 Voices in Windows WINMM.DLL - aetherfox - 02-25-2005
This is in the article I put in QBExpress latest issue
128 Voices in Windows WINMM.DLL - ShadowWolf - 02-25-2005
oh cool
found a good site outside the msdn for function prototype's for winmm
http://www.webtropy.com/articles/art9-2.asp?lib=winmm.dll
128 Voices in Windows WINMM.DLL - GordonSweet - 02-25-2005
Thanks for your help,
I am pretty ignorant when it comes to API calls etc, and a bit late to learn at the age of 71. I assume we could play MP3, WMA, MPEG3 etc using the WINMM.DLL as is done in other languages.
Gordon
128 Voices in Windows WINMM.DLL - ShadowWolf - 02-26-2005
na never to late to learn anything just think of API as Function/Sub's that exist outside your program.