Some time ago, SL Baur wrote... |+ | What should be done about sounds? It's been rumored that MS Windows | doesn't grok .au -- XEmacs/Linux (and I presume BSD) sound support | handles both .wav and .au so I don't particularly care either way. The rumor is almost right. There is an API call PlaySound, which is able to play wav files only. Windows does support .au files, but only with DirectX libraries. This is an ActiveX (ex OLE) technology, as most modern techs from Microsoft are, and XEmacs currently is completely OLE unaware. It is impossible to support say .au in the short terms, for this release. If it will prove a real problem, I could try to play an .au programatically. I'm not too anxious to do this; I would make this as a last resort thing, ok? Kirill

Some time ago, Darryl Okahata wrote... |+ | Well, I'd like sound, too. If no one else will do it, I could try | to add .wav sound support by Wednesday's deadline, and translate the .au | files to .wav. However, it might be best if someone else did it, as I'm | still a Windows programming novice. Wavs are already done by Andy. Kirill

Andy Piper <andyp(a)parallax.co.uk&gt; wrote: Ah, brain fart. Never mind. -- Darryl Okahata Internet: darrylo(a)sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day.

Some time ago, Andy Piper wrote... |+ | At 12:13 AM 5/24/98 -0700, SL Baur wrote: | >If we need both, it will definitely have to be a package and we'll | >have to upgrade the sound playing code to have lists of valid | >extensions so that `play-sound-file' can Do The Right Thing and either | >play "im_so_happy.au" or "im_so_happy.wav" as the situation warrants. | | What's the outcome of this? As far as I understand this. On Windows, PlaySound API does not play .au files, wavs only. On other platforms, there are APIs as simple to use as PlaySound, which do not care about wavs, au only. Am I correct? Kirill