30.1. Adding sound to your program
How do we get our program to make noise? The easiest way is to use the multimedia features of Windows to play so-called wave or *.wav files. A wave file is to sound as a bitmap is to graphics: it’s a binary representation. Although Java code can also play files in the *.au format, the Visual C++ libraries don’t supply this capability.
And what about music? What about playing *.mp3, or generating sounds with algorithms? Certainly a full-featured game ought to have some music and some more sophisticated sound-blending modes. Also you’d like to be able to use MIDI to avoid having to store a sound file in such a large format. But, in this chapter, we’re only going to give you the bare minimum.
If you use the Windows ...
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