Play Wav resource

Well, this doesn’t really deal with MFC, but its useful knowledge if you don’t know how..

Parts of this code I ripped from VC++ 4.1 help, but it was outdated and didn’t come close to working.

First of all you need to add the wave files to the .rc file manually like so:

<NameOfSound> WAVE <Location of WAVE.>

Cool WAVE C:projectssoundscool.wav

Then you need to add this function declarion to the class you plan on using..

BOOL PlayResource(LPSTR lpName)

{

    BOOL bRtn;

    LPSTR lpRes;

    HANDLE hRes;

    HRSRC hResInfo;

    HINSTANCE Nl=AfxGetInstanceHandle();

    /* Find the WAVE resource. */

    hResInfo= FindResource(Nl,lpName,”WAVE”);

    if(hResInfo == NULL)

       return FALSE;

    /* Load the WAVE resource. */
    hRes = LoadResource(Nl,hResInfo);

    if (hRes == NULL)

      return FALSE;
    /* Lock the WAVE resource and play it. */

    lpRes=(LPSTR)LockResource(hRes);

    if(lpRes==NULL)

      return FALSE;
    bRtn = sndPlaySound(lpRes, SND_MEMORY | SND_SYNC);

    if(bRtn == NULL)

      return FALSE;
    /* Free the WAVE resource and return success or failure. */

    FreeResource(hRes);

    return TRUE;

}

Then to play the sound you simply use:

PlayResource(“<soundname>”);

PlayResource(“Cool”);