Audio.Play relative path?

[darrenbooy]

Hi,

I need to play a sound file: Sounds\open_creaky_door.wav"

However the code only works if I specify the EXACT location:

My.Computer.Audio.Play("c:\sounds\open_creaky_door.wav")

Is there a way I can set the relative path to something like this?

My.Computer.Audio.Play("\sounds\open_creaky_door.wav")

cheers

 

[wizzardmr42]

The path relative to what?

You probably want to do a little preprocessing on the path using some functions in IO.Path

 

[darrenbooy]

I have my program saved into a directory and I want to load a sound file from a sub directory called 'sounds'.

Surely its something much more straight forward than that I remember there was something curdir???? Although that was a long time ago (possibly with VB6).

 

[wizzardmr42]

Try this...

Dim sounddir As String = IO.Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath,"sounds")
Dim soundpath as String = IO.Path.Combine(sounddir,"open_creaky_door.wav")


Then pass soundpath in.


If you want to do it all in one, you can do IO.Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath,"sounds\open_creaky_door.wav")
- I just thought it may be sensible to keep the directory path separately.