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 Hi ,

I am exploring the multimedia functions in the Windows 3.1 API. But there's
something I don't understand and I can't find the answer in the Borland books,
the help files or the samples, so I thought that maybe one of you could help me.

I am writing a sample editor for windows, so I need to output sound using a
wave-audio device. As far as I understand it, there are the following methods of doing WAVE-I/O :

- using sndPlaySound : very easy to use, plays waves from disk or from memory,
	but sound cannot be paused and cannot be played from and to specific
 	points in the sample.
- using the low level functions : rather difficult to use, this method seems
	not necessary for my application.
- using MCI commands or strings : still easy to use, everything I want to do is
	possible (play, stop, pause, resume, record, play from/to), so this
	seems to be the perfect method when writing a sample editor. But there
	is one thing I don't get : Is it possible to play a wave-file
	directly from memory, as with sndPlaySound ? When you open a device,
	you use a filename to indicate what you want to play. 

So how do I do this ? I want to be able to play waves from memory, to pause
the output and to play from and to a position in the sample. Do I really
have to use the low level functions to do this. This seems too much trouble
for my app, because the MCI-commands seem to provide everything I need.

For the time being I use sndPlaySound, so I have output, but not the way I want it. Could somebody provide me with the information I need ? 

Thanx for your time,

Alwin Hoogerdijk
Faculty of Technical Mathematics and Informatics
Delft University of Technology
Holland

Email : alwin@dutisa.twi.tudelft.nl
 
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