interface/sound.h

   1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   2 // Name:        sound.h
   3 // Purpose:     interface of wxSound
   4 // Author:      wxWidgets team
   5 // RCS-ID:      $Id$
   6 // Licence:     wxWindows license
   7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   8
   9 /**
  10     @class wxSound
  11     @wxheader{sound.h}
  12
  13     This class represents a short sound (loaded from Windows WAV file), that
  14     can be stored in memory and played. Currently this class is implemented
  15     on Windows and Unix (and uses either
  16     Open Sound System or
  17     Simple DirectMedia Layer).
  18
  19     @library{wxadv}
  20     @category{FIXME}
  21 */
  22 class wxSound : public wxObject
  23 {
  24 public:
  25     //@{
  26     /**
  27         Constructs a wave object from a file or, under Windows, from a Windows
  28         resource. Call IsOk() to determine whether this
  29         succeeded.
  30
  31         @param fileName
  32             The filename or Windows resource.
  33         @param isResource
  34             @true if fileName is a resource, @false if it is a filename.
  35     */
  36     wxSound();
  37     wxSound(const wxString& fileName, bool isResource = false);
  38     //@}
  39
  40     /**
  41         Destroys the wxSound object.
  42     */
  43     ~wxSound();
  44
  45     /**
  46         Constructs a wave object from a file or resource.
  47
  48         @param fileName
  49             The filename or Windows resource.
  50         @param isResource
  51             @true if fileName is a resource, @false if it is a filename.
  52
  53         @returns @true if the call was successful, @false otherwise.
  54     */
  55     bool Create(const wxString& fileName, bool isResource = false);
  56
  57     /**
  58         Returns @true if the object contains a successfully loaded file or resource,
  59         @false otherwise.
  60     */
  61     bool IsOk() const;
  62
  63     /**
  64         Returns @true if a sound is played at the moment.
  65         This method is currently not implemented under Windows.
  66     */
  67     static bool IsPlaying() const;
  68
  69     //@{
  70     /**
  71         Plays the sound file. If another sound is playing, it will be interrupted.
  72         Returns @true on success, @false otherwise. Note that in general it is
  73         possible
  74         to delete the object which is being asynchronously played any time after
  75         calling this function and the sound would continue playing, however this
  76         currently doesn't work under Windows for sound objects loaded from memory data.
  77         The possible values for @a flags are:
  78
  79         wxSOUND_SYNC
  80
  81         @c Play will block and wait until the sound is
  82         replayed.
  83
  84         wxSOUND_ASYNC
  85
  86         Sound is played asynchronously,
  87         @c Play returns immediately
  88
  89         wxSOUND_ASYNC | wxSOUND_LOOP
  90
  91         Sound is played asynchronously
  92         and loops until another sound is played,
  93         Stop() is called or the program terminates.
  94
  95         The static form is shorthand for this code:
  96     */
  97     bool Play(unsigned flags = wxSOUND_ASYNC);
  98     const static bool Play(const wxString& filename,
  99                            unsigned flags = wxSOUND_ASYNC);
 100     //@}
 101
 102     /**
 103         If a sound is played, this function stops it.
 104     */
 105     static void Stop();
 106 };
 107