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