Play background wave sound and alert wave sound togather

[Chrit Nathan]

I 'm writing the game. I want to play background with wave sound. when I click
some button in the form I can't play wave sound to alert when I click simultaneously.
Help me please.

[Ray Mercer]

The standard Wave Audio APIs in Windows are not able to play more than one
file at a time. You don't give any clue as to how you are playing sounds,
but your choices would probably be something like this:

Easy-
Use Midi for the BG sound and waves for alerts/effects
or
Buy/find a 3rd party wavemix dll or api of somekind

Harder-
Use DirectSound in your app. (drawback is dist size and finding good
examples for VB)

Hard-
Write your own wavemix support using "low level" APIs (not playsound).

Hope this helps,
Ray Mercer
www.shrinkwrapvb.com


"Chrit Nathan" <kritkul@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> I 'm writing the game. I want to play background with wave sound. when I
click
> some button in the form I can't play wave sound to alert when I click
simultaneously.
> Help me please.

[Mike D Sutton]

> Harder-
> Use DirectSound in your app. (drawback is dist size and finding good
> examples for VB)

The SDK has examples of this as far as I know, you can download a copy at
http://www.Microsoft.com/DirextX/
Hope this helps,

Mike

[Ray Mercer]

Mike,

I said *good* examples ;-)

Ray

> The SDK has examples of this as far as I know, you can download a copy at
> http://www.Microsoft.com/DirextX/

[Mike D Sutton]

> I said *good* examples ;-)

Haha - Point taken

Mike