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Another Strange VB Issue (look)

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TheTuna

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I'd like to discuss with you, the multi media control.

The project I'm working on (automated kiosks) uses the MM control to announce information and provide voice cues to the users.

An annoying little issue keeps popping up, and I'll be flipped if I can't figure out why it happens. Here's the deal:

User touches the screen to initiate a process.
MMControl play's a wave file telling user to type some information...
User types information...
MMControl plays another wave file with more guidance.
User follows instructions...

Sometimes, for reasons unknown, a wave file just will not play. No error message of any kind. And once a wave file fails to play, it will NEVER play until the software is re-started. This happens both during a stand alone run of the software, and in the IDE Runtime as well.

This is an annoyance, but worse yet, the users rely on the voice cues, so it can lead to a failure in the process, even though there are also visual cues (labels and other indicators).

Has anyone else seen this kind of non-sense?

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There was a post some time ago about this sort of thing (was it yours?) and my question to you now is why do you not use the SndPlaySound or PlaySound API if all you are doing is playing a wav file?

Mahi Mahi (Blackend of course)

 
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Well, that is a good question... and I keep asking myself the same thing.

Here's my lame @ss excuse #1:

I was in a hurry, and the MMC was a nice quick solution.

Here's lame excuse #2:

Now that I've got it in there, I am still in a hurry!

Did I ask this question before? I just might have... I'll have to look and see. ;-) [fish] No Dolphins were harmed in the posting of this message... Dolphin Friendly Tuna!
 
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I didn't ask this question before (sigh of releif over avoiding firing off the egg_on_face event)

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... where's the mayo?


MichaelRed
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Why not try a VB Resource file
 
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