Hey guys,
i need a little app made up.
doesnt have to be vb but i thought it would be the most used.
i need a little app that does the following..

on a keypress of a certin the, a 20 second timer will start and when that 20 seconds is up a .wav file will be played.
it need to work every time i press it so it just doesnt work once then need to be restarted.
also needs to work in the backgroud.

Thanks heaps.

can it be an mp3?

i would but i havn't got visual studio any more :(

programmers has two m's

Does he mean pro-gamers? cause i can help in that department (roofle)

watch out trog's on the war path

I don't have VB at home but if I get some time I'll see what I can do for ya.

can it be an mp3?

yes of course

i would but i havn't got visual studio any more :(

dammit

programmers has two m's

Sorry, ill get onto that for ya trog

I don't have VB at home but if I get some time I'll see what I can do for ya.

cheers dude, but if somone beats ya then ill have to take it :)

Throw the Timer object onto your form. Set it to fire off its interrupt every 20 secs (check it's properties).

Add your code to play a wav file in the TTimer Event (double click on the Timer object). Google around to find some easy ocx components that will allow you to play whatever media you like (unless you know how to use media in VB or activeX).

gl - it's not hard :)

i dont have vb :(

This isnt exactly VB, i made it using multimedia fusion. It does what its supposed to though.

http://users.bigpond.net.au/cheesecovers/countinstall.exe

Install everything in the archive to the same folder. Yes, there is a dll in there, no, it isnt a trojan, its a runtime dll for the exe I made.

Anyway, i didnt label everything, so ill give you instructions here:
http://users.bigpond.net.au/cheesecovers/count.jpg

I originally had a much nicer skin, but I deleted it =/

You can change it if you want, but the first pixel is always the transparent one.

Oh, press enter to play it with keypress.

If you want any changes, I can do them for you, just post here, or msn me at sw113@hotmail.com

tahts a f***ing excellent start man,
thanks heaps for doing.

I dont need a button... i need it so on a keypress... say urmm.. f it will start.
instead of clicking start.
so it also works in a game.
cheers.

once it gets pressed, it shouldnt start timing again until i press the button.

so...

press f, 20 down to 0, sound plays, stops.

unless time of waiting

press f, 20 down to 0, sound plays, stops.

doing that is much much much harder, dont think you can do it in mmf (and youd need to know a vb pretty well to do it in vb as well) simply because by default, windows only registers keystrokes from the program thats alive, not from stuff in the background.

awwwwwwwww, f***ing... do u think u could give it ago ? :)

/me flusshers his eyelashses

what the hell is it for any way?

timing red ammor in q3

eheh, cheaty =P

Nah, I dont think I can, I got pretty much every plugin for MMF on the planet, and there isnt one that allows you to do that. =/

Sorry man. But hey! Your free to use the program for other stuff! =D

hehe thanks anyways man. i have an idea, and i will get back to you in a min

nah my idea didnt work.

but if anyone else can help me that would be great!

surely there would be some scripting function in q3a to do that

either way - your best bet is c++
if you can get me the source to q3a 1.31 i'll do it for you..

or alternatively.. you could just add a hook and go from there

or even crappier still.. i could modify the actual interrupt table .. but i don't think thats a good idea unless you've found some magical way to run q3a under dos 6.22 :)

ok, im lost

get the source of OGC, remove the cheaty bits, add the beepy bits.

hah!

scuzzy has the idea :P