MIDI player

[ThePentiumGuy]

should i attach a media player to my VB.NET apps to play a MIDI in the background,

or will that be too slow?

[iebidan]

Yes, if you use Windows Media will be a pain to wait until it loads, better try the following code, you can put it in a class and call it whenever you want

 

Public Class cSound
    Declare Auto Function PlaySound Lib "winmm.dll" (ByVal name As String, ByVal hmod As Integer, ByVal flags As Integer) As Integer

    Public Const SND_SYNC = &H0
    Public Const SND_ASYNC = &H1
    Public Const SND_FILENAME = &H20000
    Public Const SND_RESOURCE = &H40004

    Public Sub PlaySoundFile(ByVal filename As String)
         PlaySound(filename, Nothing, SND_FILENAME Or SND_ASYNC)
    End Sub
End Class

 

And you can call the class using the following example

 

Dim oSound as cSound = New cSound
oSound.PlaySoundFile("the path for your sound file")

 

Hope this helps you out

 

Regards

[mutant]

PlaySound will not play MIDI files.

Try this API:

http://www.mentalis.org/apilist/mciSendString.shtml

There is a sample on that page.