12 replies to this topic

[MrCreatoR]

Hi,

I reported about SoundPlay() function problem here, and i thought that this is a bug, i understand now (after Valik has explained to me - thanks ) that it isn't - but now it would be great to have function like SoundPlayClose() (a proposal from Valik), and the function SoundPlay() should return a handle to the sound file if we use 0 as second parameter (no wait), so later in the script we could close this handle using new func SoundPlayClose(), this will help as to delete the sound file (if needed, if it is a FileInstall'ed temporary file) before we exit the script.

Thanks.

[RazerM]

Sound.au3 has _SoundOpen and _SoundClose, look at the helpfile. AutoIt's built in soundplay basically does the same stuff as sound.au3, except does not close the mci alias used. In your case you would use:

#include <sound.au3>
$hSound = _SoundOpen("file.mp3")
_SoundPlay($hSound)
;rest of script
_SoundClose($hSound)

@dev's
Could you possibly tell me the alias AutoIt uses when using SoundPlay? That way I could put it in _SoundClose remarks rather than a new built in function. (Up to you of course).

[Jos]

Sound.au3 has _SoundOpen and _SoundClose, look at the helpfile. AutoIt's built in soundplay basically does the same stuff as sound.au3, except does not close the mci alias used. In your case you would use:

#include <sound.au3>
$hSound = _SoundOpen("file.mp3")
_SoundPlay($hSound)
;rest of script
_SoundClose($hSound)

@dev's
Could you possibly tell me the alias AutoIt uses when using SoundPlay? That way I could put it in _SoundClose remarks rather than a new built in function. (Up to you of course).

"PlayMe"

[MrCreatoR]

Sound.au3 has _SoundOpen and _SoundClose, look at the helpfile

I know, thanks, but i thought that the built-in functions (Sound..()) should be able to release the sound handle, so we could use simple SoundPlay() (without including whole library of _Sound...()) and delete the file later.. i think if it Open the handle, it should have some tool to close it.

[MrCreatoR]

*Bump*

[Jos]

What about doing it this way ?

FileCopy(@WindowsDir & "\media\tada.wav", @ScriptDir & "\tada.wav")
SoundPlay(@ScriptDir & "\tada.wav", 0)
Sleep(5000)
SoundPlay("")
FileDelete(@ScriptDir & "\tada.wav")

[Valik]

That's a good idea. We should just document that as the functionality to close a SoundPlay() handle.

[Jos]

That's a good idea. We should just document that as the functionality to close a SoundPlay() handle.

It is also the way to stop the soundfile from playing when submitted in the background so maybe add that too when updating the Helpfile page remarks section?

[DerBen]

A full sound function would be nice,

-Play
-Stop
-Pause/resume
-Length (or time when it will stop by itself)

If there was something like this we could open up way more possibilities.

Work with wavs and mp3's (which I think it does now for soundplay)

[JustinReno]

A full sound function would be nice,

-Play
-Stop
-Pause/resume
-Length (or time when it will stop by itself)

If there was something like this we could open up way more possibilities.

Work with wavs and mp3's (which I think it does now for soundplay)

We already have those.

These play Wav, MP3, and I think WMA.

_SoundPlay()
_SoundStop()
_SoundPause()
_SoundResume()
_SoundPos() (I Think)

Edited by JustinReno, 05 January 2008 - 02:50 AM.

[DirtDBaK]

These play Wav, MP3, and I think WMA

Also MIDI
there are:

_SoundOpen
_SoundClose
_SoundPlay
_SoundPause
_SoundSeek
_SoundStop
_SoundLength
_SoundResume
_SoundStatus
_SoundPause

EDIT: along with MIDI there is ogg

Edited by DBak, 05 January 2008 - 04:38 AM.

[AdmiralAlkex]

EDIT: along with MIDI there is ogg

How did you get it to play ogg??

[Valik]

I've added some remarks in the documentation about SoundPlay(""). Moving this to Complete.