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vbOgg & DirectSound

2004-08-04T03:37:27Z

A couple of questions ...

1) What version of DirectSound does VBogg use to playback sounds?

2) Can I use VBogg to play background music for a game, and then use my own DirectSound object to play my WAV-based SFX? (I know, I know -- "just try it and see" ... and I will, but figured I'd see if you'd tried it that way before. )

-Bryk

vbOgg in VB .net

2003-11-27T02:44:21Z

Heya people,
Anyone had problems with (or even tried!) converting the vbOgg project files into a VB .net solution? I get a conversion error
"The referenced component CommonDialog is missing a design time license."

Since I don't have a copy of VB6 and I don't want to download an illegal copy, can anyone help me out here? Possibly if you give me all the code that's in the vbOgg project files that'll help me

Thanks!

VBOgg: OggIsPlaying Function

2003-07-16T04:03:57Z

I would assume that you should be able to call this function to let you know if the last song played is still playing ... however, it appears to always return a 1, even after a song is done playing (and even after calling the StopOgg function).

When using the demo app/project that was zipped with the DLL, you can pick an OGG sound file to play ... and it plays it, but the "Go" button never becomes enabled again, unless the "Stop" button is pressed -- and that cmdStop routine explicitly resets the .Enable for the Go button.

Is it that I'm using too short of a sound file? (I didn't have any WAV-format songs handy to be converted, so I used a 3-second-or-so long sound effect instead.)

-Bryk

VBOgg: Enhancements

2003-07-15T02:31:10Z

This is where you can post enhancements you'd like to see done for VBOgg (as time and resources allow).

Handy Ogg Links

2003-07-09T15:39:57Z

Hello Brother Erryn, et al ... Do you have any handy Ogg-related links to pass along. I'll be doing some Googling, personally, but if you have any links that give handy to-Ogg conversion tools, and such, it would be cool to see them.

I thought that using FMOD just to add a little background music to my games would be a bit of overkill (everything else just uses the WinAPI -- no DirectX, etc.) ... so this VBogg thing might be a better (read "cheaper" and lighter) approach.

Cheers,
-Bryk

Atomic GUI: Whaddya think?

2003-03-11T13:25:38Z

We'd be interested to hear what the (obviously MANY) users of this GUI think of it, along with recommendations for improvement. This was made for internal use, but surely there's some ideas out there that would help us as well.

Post your notions here.