DialogWindow Not Making sounds......

[incognito]

Shoudln't this window make sounds when I press the VK_UP button?

BOOL CALLBACK AboutDlgProc (HWND hDlg, UINT message, 
                            WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
     switch (message)
     {
     case WM_INITDIALOG :

		return TRUE ;


	  case WM_KEYDOWN:
		  
		  {
	
			  switch (wParam)

			{	

				case VK_UP:

				 PlaySound (TEXT ("puma.wav"), NULL, SND_FILENAME | SND_ASYNC) ;



				 break;


			 }


			
	}
          
     case WM_COMMAND :
          switch (LOWORD (wParam))
          {
          case IDOK :
          case IDCANCEL :
               EndDialog (hDlg, 0) ;
               return TRUE ;
          }
          break ;
     }
     return FALSE ;
}

[codec]

Have you tested to see if execution actually flows to the VK_UP case?

Here's a couple of ideas:

1) Try using the sndPlaySound API call instead of PlaySound

2) Instead of "break;" after your PlaySound function, use "return 0;"

Give those a try.

I'm sure someone else can come up with something better, but I hope that helps.

-Dan

[novacain]

make sure the path is correct, use a break point and GetLastError()

use a char array for the filename not a constant.

ie
if(! PlaySound(......) )
iError=GetLastError();

".\\puma.wav" to load a sound from the current directory

"c:\\thisFolder\\puma.wav"

or look at GetCurrentDirectory() and sprintf() to format your own string no matter where the app is running.

use

PlaySound(NULL,NULL,SND_FILENAME | SND_ASYNC) ;//stop current sound if one playing

[codec]

The following code will create a full path to a sound file in your exe file's directory.

sound_filename is the filename you wish to add the path to
sound_fullpath is the full path to the file

i.e if sound_filename = "hello.wav" after running this code sound_fullpath will = "C:\directory\of\exe\hello.wav"

char sound_fullpath[MAX_PATH];
char p[MAX_PATH],*q;

GetModuleFileName(NULL,p,sizeof(p));
q=p+strlen(p);
while (q >= p && *q != '\\') q--;
*(++q)=0;
wsprintf(sound_fullpath,"%s%s",p,sound_filename);

[novacain]

GetCurrentDirectory(255,szWorkingDirectory);
sprintf(szFilePath ,"%s\\%s ,szWorkingDirectory ,szFileName );

or use

SetCurrentDirectory()