Thread: How to play sound from a resource?

I know about the PlaySound(); function. I know how to play a wav sound from memory, but what about playing the sound from a resource. I have made my .res script and want to know how you go about playing the sound from resource.
PlaySound ((LPCSTR) IDW_RAIN, HMODULE hModule, SND_ASYNC |SND_RESOURCE);

I basically don't know how to work the second parameter. "HMODULE hModule"

--Digga

I want to make the program where you simply double click on the program and it automatically plays the sounds. I was able to get it to compile without any problems. But the program does not generate any sound. I want the sounds to basically to be built into the program. I know this is posiible, but it may take a little of trial and error to fiqure it out. Anyway here is my source code, resource script, and rc script.

Source Code:

Code:

// Include the following libraries.

#include <windows.h>
#include <mmsystem.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <fstream> 
#include <iostream>

#include "Resource.h"

#pragma resource "xx.res"

using namespace std;

// Program begins here ------------------------------------------------ 

LRESULT CALLBACK  WndProc (HWND hWindow, UINT msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam);

int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, PSTR szCmdLine, int iCmdShow)

{
    WNDCLASSEX  wndclass;

		wndclass.hIcon = LoadIcon (hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE (IDI_XWORDX));

		HMODULE hmod;
                hmod=GetModuleHandle("xx.rc");




		PlaySound ((LPCSTR) IDW_BAD, hmod, SND_ASYNC | SND_RESOURCE);
		PlaySound ((LPCSTR) IDW_BIGFART, hmod, SND_ASYNC | SND_RESOURCE);
		PlaySound ((LPCSTR) IDW_BADDUCK, hmod, SND_ASYNC | SND_RESOURCE);
		PlaySound ((LPCSTR) IDW_BUNNYFART, hmod, SND_ASYNC | SND_RESOURCE);

	PlaySound( MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDW_BAD), 
GetModuleHandle(0)/* MFC AfxGetInstanceHandle()*/,
SND_ASYNC |SND_RESOURCE);

return 0;

}

Resource.h

Code:

// 10 JUNE 2005

// This includes the resources.
// This has icon resources and sound resources

//---------------------------------------------------------------------

// Icons--

#define IDI_XWORDX	1000

// Sounds--

// Sounds are in WAV formart.

#define IDW_BAD	        2000
#define IDW_BIGFART	2001
#define IDW_BADDUCK	2002
#define IDW_BUNNYFART	2003

//---------------------------------------------------------------------

RC Script

Code:

// 10 JUNE 2005

// Include the resource files.

//---------------------------------------------------------------------

#include "Resource.h"

//---------------------------------------------------------------------

// *Icon Files*

IDI_XWORDX	ICON	"XWordX.ico"



// *Sound Files*

IDW_BAD		 WAVE		"Bad.wav"	
IDW_BIGFART      WAVE		"BigFart.wav"
IDW_BADDUCK      WAVE		"BadDuck.wav"
IDW_BUNNYFART	 WAVE		"BunnyFart.wav"        


//---------------------------------------------------------------------

Originally Posted by Digga

Code:

                hmod=GetModuleHandle("xx.rc");

Please read the appropriate MSDN page before using GetModuleHandle, so that you know how to use it. It expects the name of a loaded executable module to get the handle for, or you can pass it NULL and it will give you the handle of the calling process (i.e. of your program). You want the second option, as novacain described.

Also, if you use the SND_ASYNC flag, make sure your program does not exit before the sound is played!

I got it to work very well.

Thanx

--Digga