by Brandon (46 Submissions)
Category: Sound/MP3
Compatability: VB 6.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Fri 15th June 2001
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
(1 Votes)
A miniature wave player using an API Call
API Declarations
(ByVal lpszSoundName As String, ByVal uFlags As Long) As Long
VBcoders
'the following code.
'make sure to use appropriate control names.
'Note: The files I have used in this program come from files located
'on my hard drive in my systems folder, you may not have some or any
'of these files, best thing to do is search your harddrive for wave
'sound files (.wav extension) and use the correct path where the files
'are located and store it in the variable "Path."
Private Sub cmdSound_Click()
Dim FileName, Path, Destination As String
Dim PlayWave As Integer
'all files located in Windows sytem folder
'get sound file information
FileName = cboPlayList.Text
Path = "c:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\"
Destination = Path & FileName
'make sure file exists
If cboPlayList.Text = vbNullString Or cboPlayList.Text = "Wave Play List" Then
MsgBox "You must select a file from this list", vbInformation, "Error"
cboPlayList.Text = "Wave Play List"
Else
'play sound file
PlayWave = sndPlaySound(ByVal CStr(Destination), 1)
End If
End Sub
Private Sub Form_Load()
'add files to play list
With cboPlayList
.AddItem "PC.wav"
.AddItem "Yhapp.wav"
.AddItem "binklow.wav"
.AddItem "ty.wav"
.AddItem "lpnsf.wav"
.AddItem "hctroub.wav"
.AddItem "ccrash.wav"
End With
End Sub
