Re: Sound with IDL... HELP!

[wonko(at)planet-interkom.de (Alex Schuster)]

David Fanning (david@dfanning.com) writes:

> If you haven't gotten around to installing IDL 5.4,
> here is another alternative if you are running a
> Windows machine. I got this little gem in a round-about
> way (twice), but it comes originally from that Doyen
> of Dirty IDL Code, Peter Mason, in Australia.

> It's a hack, it's not well documented, and you didn't
> get it from me. But it's fun, and it *does* work just
> the way he said it would! :-)

Sounds good :)

> It uses a DLL (winclip.dll) to read and execute WAV files,
> calling the Windows sound routines directly, rather than
> spawning a WAV player.

>    ftp://ftp.dfanning.com/pub/dfanning/outgoing/misc/wavdemo.zip

Thanks! I will have a look. I'd like to implement opther features than  
sound in the future, but for now that's fine.

The other hint I got was to use Randall Frank's routines at  
www.rlkling.com/freeware/randallfrank.html.

        Alex