From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2002-11-10T03:26:09+09:00
Subject: Re: sound under windows

Hi,

From: "MENON Jean-Francois" <jean-francois.menon@meteo.fr>
> hello,
> what is the good way for output simple sounds with Ruby under windows ?
> I looked in the RAA but it seems to be only libs for linux

One way is to use Win32API:

SND_MEMORY   = 0x00000004   # from "mmsystem.h"
SND_FILENAME = 0x00020000

PlaySound = Win32API.new("winmm", "PlaySound", ['P', 'L', 'L'], 'I')

# play from file:
PlaySound.call("C:/your/sound.wav", 0, SND_FILENAME)

# play from memory:
wav = File.open("C:/your/sound.wav", File::RDONLY) {|f| f.binmode; f.read }
PlaySound.call(wav, 0, SND_MEMORY)


HTH,

Bill