Not sure how to use bintodb

[Magnum]

I am confused as to how to use the bintodb utility.
I want to embed a wav file and play it.

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.DATA

; C:\Backup\klaxon.wav is 7279 bytes long

klaxon db 82,73,70,70,103,28,0,0,87,65,86,69,102,109,116,32
db 16,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,64,31,0,0,64,31,0,0
db 1,0,8,0,100,97,116,97,67,28,0,0,131,129,122,122
db 130,134,135,124,119,125,140,139,129,111,119,135,140,139,120,112
db 124,135,140,127,116,116,125,139,146,130,111,116,138,147,133,115
db 114,129,135,134,126,119,125,132,140,134,113,113,126,143,146,129
db 110,110,137,153,130,108,118,137,144,127,119,119,126,134,134,140
db 118,107,123,149,150,121,108,122,143,143,123,108,120,130,144,140
db 123,120,123,130,133,128,112,107,132,153,146,128,120,126,133,135
db 121,120,122,128,135,130,122,126,132,134,121,119,120,125,138,139
db 129,130,134,131,130,122,122,126,128,124,127,127,135,134,122,127
db 123,115,122,140,151,128,121,124,130,133,120,127,120,127,134,134

.CODE

%Date       db " &@Date" ; Compile date

start:

invoke PlaySound, ADDR klaxon, NULL, SND_FILENAME or SND_ASYNC



[ecube]

you include that into your programs .data section, then you can write it back to a file when you want with WriteFile, it's a way of embedding a file in masm. Ml.exe will compile REAL slow though on big ones, is a bug. In the above example its just playing the embedded file directly instead of writing it out again.

[hutch--]

Magnum,

That technique works OK but there is a better way with a single file and you have no speed problems at all. Try out either FDA or the GUI version of FDA to make the file into an object module, link it into your app and use the include file that it creates to know the call address and the length of the data.

I use it for the masm32 installation among many other things, just convert the file and link it into your app.

[sinsi]

You could also include the wave file as a resource, PlaySound will play from a resource ID.