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Re: Producing sounds in IDL [message #70321]

Tue, 06 April 2010 07:07

natha
Messages: 482
Registered: October 2007

Senior Member

Hi All,

I tried the bell program and the IDLtunes on my Windows machine and
everything works fine.
The only issue I found is in the firsts lines of the bell.pro routine.
The routine tries to find the DLL file in a bad path and the way to
check the OS is not the best one.

Anyways, that's right that "You're doin' it all wrong!" is a very
funny error sound !
Thanks,

nata

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Re: Producing sounds in IDL [message #70324 is a reply to message #70321]

Mon, 05 April 2010 20:52

David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001

Senior Member

Andrew Cool writes:

> Search for Bell on www.dfanning.com
> It contains code to play WAV files using Peter Mason's WINCLIP.DLL
>
> Still works fine under XP.

That "You're doin' it all wrong!" clip is still my favorite
Catch error handler sound! :-)

http://www.dfanning.com/programs/bell.zip

Cheers,

David

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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Re: Producing sounds in IDL [message #70325 is a reply to message #70324]

Mon, 05 April 2010 20:05

Andrew Cool
Messages: 219
Registered: January 1996

Senior Member

On Apr 6, 3:07 am, nata <bernat.puigdomen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi gurus,
>
> Is it possible to produce sounds using IDL?
> I searched in the manual but it seems that there is nothing available.
> I was thinking that maybe using CALL_EXTERNAL, SPAWN or ActiveX
> controls could be possible.
>
> I'm using Windows so I'm looking for a solution under this platform.
> Thanks,
> nata

Search for Bell on www.dfanning.com
It contains code to play WAV files using Peter Mason's WINCLIP.DLL

Still works fine under XP.

Andrew

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Re: Producing sounds in IDL [message #70329 is a reply to message #70325]

Mon, 05 April 2010 12:01

Aram Panasenco
Messages: 41
Registered: April 2010

Member

On Apr 5, 11:53 am, nata <bernat.puigdomen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems that all is based on KRSaudiere.dlm and KRSaudiere.dll. That
> means that the program only works under Windows, right ?
> I'll try to use the program on a Windows machine tomorrow morning so
> I'll let you know my experiences using your program.
> Thanks,
> nata

I didn't write the program, I just found it a while ago on
kilvarock.com. I am pretty sure the program's author is Ronn Kling,
but I am not 100% certain. Anyway, let us know how it goes!

~Aram Panasenco

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Re: Producing sounds in IDL [message #70330 is a reply to message #70329]

Mon, 05 April 2010 11:53

natha
Messages: 482
Registered: October 2007

Senior Member

It seems that all is based on KRSaudiere.dlm and KRSaudiere.dll. That
means that the program only works under Windows, right ?
I'll try to use the program on a Windows machine tomorrow morning so
I'll let you know my experiences using your program.
Thanks,
nata

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Re: Producing sounds in IDL [message #70331 is a reply to message #70330]

Mon, 05 April 2010 11:20

Aram Panasenco
Messages: 41
Registered: April 2010

Member

On Apr 5, 11:07 am, nata <bernat.puigdomen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi gurus,
>
> Is it possible to produce sounds using IDL?
> I searched in the manual but it seems that there is nothing available.
> I was thinking that maybe using CALL_EXTERNAL, SPAWN or ActiveX
> controls could be possible.
>
> I'm using Windows so I'm looking for a solution under this platform.
> Thanks,
> nata

It's possible, there is even an MP3 player made in IDL called
IDLtunes.
You can download it here and look at the source IDLtunes.pro file in
the download. I hope you'll find what you want!
http://kilvarock.com/miscellaneous.htm
http://kilvarock.com/user/image/idltunes.zip

~Aram Panasenco

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Re: Producing sounds in IDL [message #70406 is a reply to message #70321]

Wed, 07 April 2010 16:07

Andrew Cool
Messages: 219
Registered: January 1996

Senior Member

On Apr 6, 11:07 pm, nata <bernat.puigdomen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I tried the bell program and the IDLtunes on my Windows machine and
> everything works fine.
> The only issue I found is in the firsts lines of the bell.pro routine.
> The routine tries to find the DLL file in a bad path and the way to
> check the OS is not the best one.
>
> Anyways, that's right that "You're doin' it all wrong!" is a very
> funny error sound !
> Thanks,
>
> nata

Hi Nata,

Fair shake of the sauce bottle, old son!

The DLL part of the Bell program dates back to 1996, and was perfectly
valid,
correct and proper back then. Perhaps you weren't using IDL 14 years
ago...?

Plus the code does contain specific instructions on where the DLL
should be stored:-

; The file winclip.dll has to go into the main IDL directory for
*each*
; of your IDL distributions. That is "C:\RSI\IDL5.5" or "C:\RSI
\IDL5.6"
; or wherever you have installed IDL.

and ..

; Also, the path\filename of the WINCLIP DLL is returned in SHLIB if
all's ok
; To make life simple, I insist on having winclip.dll stored in the
main IDL
; directory.
; It doesn't really have to be, of course, but if you put it somewhere
else then ;you will have to modify this routine accordingly.

Maybe you could pull the code into the 21st century and email a copy
to
David Fanning?

Andrew

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