Thread: Calling Audio/Graphic Files

I was just wondering if there is any way at all that I could call a sound (.wav, .mp3, etc.) and/or a graphic (.jpg, .gif, .bmp, etc.) via my C++ program. I looked in the OpenGL tutorials, but it's not what I wanted per-say (I might delve into that later).

Here's an example of what I would use it for:

Code:

cout<<"It's a goblin, hurry attack."<<endl;
			while (gob > 0){	//Battle Loop
				attack = rand() % (HIGH - LOW + 1) + LOW;
				cout<<"***Slash***"<<endl;
				Sleep(1000);
				cout<<"The Goblin has "<<gob - attack<<" life left!"<<endl;
				gob = gob - attack;
				Sleep(1500);
				gobattack = rand() % (gobhi - goblo +1) + goblo;
				if(gob > 0){
				cout<<"***Whack***"<<endl;
				Sleep(1000);
				cout<<"You have "<<player - gobattack<<" life left!"<<endl;
				player = player - gobattack;
				Sleep(1500);
				}
			}

And during this bit of the code I would like it to call an audio file (battle music, I guess). Is there any way I could do this?

By the way, I am using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003.

Thanks for the help, I'll try it out and see if it's what I'm looking for (probably is, but you never know).

Alright, I've figured out the audio part, now I need someone to help me with calling up a picture.

Just browse the tutorials at that site - they give you example source code of all the common tasks like that. Just keep in mind that SDL is more suite to C programmers. It works in C++, but the example source code will just tend to use a different "style" than most C++ programmers.

Well, I don't think I'm going to worry about graphics for a while, once I get the majority of C++ down, I think I'll move onto OpenGL and who knows where from there.