Play an embedded wav resource 1

[MasterRacker]

Playing a wav file has turned out to be fairly simple. The following code plays a file just fine if I feed it something like "C:\Test.wav"

  public class Winmm
  {
    public enum SoundFlags : int 
    {
      SND_SYNC = 0x0000,          // play synchronously (default) 
      SND_ASYNC = 0x0001,         // play asynchronously 
      SND_NODEFAULT = 0x0002,     // silence (!default) if sound not found 
      SND_MEMORY = 0x0004,        // Sound points to a memory file
      SND_LOOP = 0x0008,          // loop the sound until next PlaySound 
      SND_NOSTOP = 0x0010,        // don't stop any currently playing sound 
      SND_NOWAIT = 0x00002000,    // don't wait if the driver is busy 
      SND_ALIAS = 0x00010000,     // name is a registry alias 
      SND_ALIAS_ID = 0x00110000,  // alias is a predefined ID
      SND_FILENAME = 0x00020000,  // name is file name 
      SND_RESOURCE = 0x00040004   // name is resource name or atom 
    }

    [DllImport("Winmm.dll")]
    public static extern bool PlaySound(string Sound, IntPtr hMod, SoundFlags sFlags);

    public Winmm()
    {			
    }

    public static void PlayWavResource(string wav)
    {
      if (!PlaySound(wav, IntPtr.Zero,  SoundFlags.SND_ASYNC | SoundFlags.SND_FILENAME))
      {
        // handle error: unable to play sound 
      }
    }
  }

My problem is that I don't want to haul sound files around with my app. I would prefer to add them to the project as embedded resources like I've done with some bitmaps.

According to the documentation, if I change the flag to SND_RESOURCE, I also need to set the hMod parameter to PlaySound to point to the resource. Unfortunately, I have been unable to find an example of how to do this. Has anyone out there done it this way?

<sub>Jeff
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[chiph]

Take a look at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...rievingimagethatisembeddedresourcevisualc.asp

While the example is that of retrieving an image from an embedded resource, it can also be done with a wave file. You then just need to use some code similar to this, which accepts a stream:

http://www.codeproject.com/cs/media/cswavplay.asp?df=100&forumid=13779&exp=0&select=1175739

Chip H.


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[MasterRacker]

Between your links and another variation I looked at a while ago (and finally used):

http://eggheadcafe.com/articles/20030302.asp,

my error finally clicked.

The caveat that's not mentioned specifically (but is there if you're paying attention to details like I wasn't): The sound file needs to be embedded in the same project as the playback method since that's what the reflection returns. I have the playback method in a library project and had added the sound to the UI project. I tried hardcoding the other assembly name unsuccessfully and eventually gave up. For my purposes, putting all the sounds in the library module with the playback method will be just fine.

<sub>Jeff
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