Re: Fw: [Tinycc-devel] windows resources, playsound, xp theme (just resending to the group)

[Jakob Eriksson]

bj wrote:
> ok, so if i do this:
> 1. open a .wav file using notepad
> 2. copy the contents of the .wav file from notepad
> 3. create a
>     char *soundstring="";
> in my c file;
> 4. paste the contents of the .wav file between the quotes in
>     char *soundstring="";
> like so
>     char *soundstring="IOBD820Ṳ鷏..";//or something like that
> 5. escape the characters in *soundstring
> 6. and use fopen ("file.wav", "wb") to write the characters of 
> *soundstring to file.wav
> this will work?


This is getting off topic, but you cant do it exactly like that, because 
some numbers
in a .wav file have no printable characters who you can paste from notepad.

Instead you need to convert the wav file to a numbers description 
suitable for a C compiler.


Something like this:

#include <stdio.h>

int main ()
{
  FILE *fp;
  int c, first;

  fp = fopen ("nicesound.wav", "rb");

  printf ("unsigned char nicesound_buf[] = {\n");

  first = 1;
  do
  {
     c = fgetc (fp);
     if (!first && EOF != c)
     {
        printf (", ");
     }
     first = 0;

     if (EOF != c)
     {
        printf ("%u\n", c);
     }
  } (EOF != c);

  fclose (fp);

  printf ("}\n");

  return 0;
}







compile this program and run it with ./programname >  sound.c

then include sound.c into your program and in your program dump the 
buffer like this:

int dumpsound (void)
{
  FILE *fp;

  fp = fopen ("dump.wav", "wb");
  if (!fp)
  {
     fprintf (stderr, "Can not open file.\n");

     return 1;
  }

  fwrite (nicesound_buf, sizeof (nicesound_buf), 1, fp);

  fclose (fp);

  return 0;
}


After that you can play your sound in dump.wav


Of course, this is untested code, but hopefully the concept comes 
through. You also need to think
about where you put your file and so on. Also there will be as many 
lines in sound.c  as there are
bytes in the wav, so for testing I suggest you start with as small a wav 
file as possible.

regards,
Jakob