Re: Sound with IDL... HELP!

[david(at)dfanning.com (David Fanning)]

Alex Schuster writes:

> Okay, okay. I'm calm. Everything's just fine. I'm sure, someone will
> tell me that I don't have a BIG, BIG problem.
> 
> Because, hey, it's 2001, and of course it should be no problem to play
> .wav files from IDL, right? Right.
> 
> When I do a
> 	spawn, 'wav.exe mywav.wav' , 
> a big DOS window opens. If I use 
> 	spawn, 'start /min wav.exe mywav.wav' , 
> it closes immedeately, but it is still opened first for a short time.
> I also see a small dialog telling me that IDL is spawning a command.
> 
> 
> And this is just unacceptable!  I want to show images to our patients
> which are being tested, and I just cannot confuse them with appearing
> and disappearing dialogs. No way.
> 
> Any ideas? If not, I really don't know what to do now. And I have to
> explain the doctors why the program I wrote this week is of no use.

Uh, how about the NOSHELL keyword to the SPAWN command.
Works in IDL 5.4. :-)

Cheers,

David

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