splashscreen sound

[Please help James]

I have a melody (midi) that I would like to play when the splashscreen opens,
does anyone know how to do this? Thanks!

 

[Douglas J Steele]

The Access splash screen, or one of your own?

I'm not sure you can do anything with the Access screen, but
http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0011.htm at "The Access Web" shows how to
play MIDI files, and you should certainly be able to incorporate that in a
custom splash screen.

 

[Please help James]

Douglas, I am trying to add the midi file to a custom splash screen and I
reviewed that website.....isn't there an easier way of adding the midi file
to play when you opne the custom splashscreen?

 

[Douglas J Steele]

Simply copy everything between Code Start and Code End into a module and
save the module. (Make sure you don't name the module the same as any of the
routines in it)

In your custom splashscreen, you need 1 line of code:

Call fPlayStuff(strMIDIFile)

(where strMIDIFile contains the complete path to your MIDI file)

To stop it from playing, you also need 1 line of code:

Call fStopStuff(strMIDIFile)

I don't think it gets any simpler than that....

 

[Please help James]

Douglas, I keep getting a debugging error...you do type the 1 line of code in
the event procedure open forms right? I guess it doesn't recognize 'call
fplaystuff', any advice?

 

[Please help James]

Douglas, after playing around with the code lines....what you said finally
sunk in, the step that finally made it work was changing the last line of the
module to match the first line in the splashscreen code. Thanks for your
help!