Shoutbox

Hello,

How can use playsound() with a link from a website ??

I know this :

MsgPlus.PlaySound("\c:\\sound.mp3") ;

but how :

MsgPlus.PlaySound("http://shoutbox.menthix.net/sound.mp3") ;

Thanks

You cannot. MsgPlus.PlaySound will only play files locally from your machine. You will need to download and save the file from the webserver and play it.

Is there another way to play audio from website, or idea ..?

Thank you very much matty..

You can download the file and then play it locally from the computer like I said earlier...

will , Thank you matty : )

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I'm sorry

I'm try but no result..

how to select place download file and play it ..?

This code is from the scripting documentation...

js code:

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function DownloadUpdateFile(sFile)
{
        var Started = MsgPlus.DownloadFile(sFile);
        if(Started)
                Debug.Trace("Downloading file, waiting for event");
        else     
                Debug.Trace("Couldn't start the download");
}

function OnEvent_DownloadFileComplete(Url, OutFile, Success)
{
        Debug.Trace("DownloadFileComplete event received for " + Url);
        Debug.Trace("   Success: " + Success);
        if(Success)
        {
                MsgPlus.PlaySound(OutFile);
        }
}

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code:

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function OnGetScriptMenu(Location)
{
    var ScriptMenu = "<ScriptMenu>";
    ScriptMenu    +=     "<MenuEntry Id=\"s1">sound1</MenuEntry>";

    ScriptMenu    += "</ScriptMenu>";
   
    return ScriptMenu;
}


function OnEvent_MenuClicked(sMenuId, nLocation, iOriginWnd) {
if (sMenuId=="s1"){
DownloadUpdateFile("http://ex.com/001.mp3");
}
}


function DownloadUpdateFile(sFile)
{
        var Started = MsgPlus.DownloadFile(sFile);
        if(Started)
                Debug.Trace("Downloading file, waiting for event");
        else     
                Debug.Trace("Couldn't start the download");
}


function OnEvent_DownloadFileComplete(Url, OutFile, Success)
{
        Debug.Trace("DownloadFileComplete event received for " + Url);
        Debug.Trace("   Success: " + Success);
        if(Success)
        {
                MsgPlus.PlaySound(OutFile);
        }
}

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^^ it this code true ?

Thank you very very much 

That'll probably work (look okay, haven't tested though). However, there are some things you should consider:

• With that code, you're going to download the .mp3 file every time you click the menu item. I don't know what the purpose of your script is, but wouldn't it be better to download it only the first time to a known location and just play the local file every time it's called afterwards?
  
• More importantly: your script is responsible for the clean-up of the downloaded files. That means, if you download a file to a temporary location, Plus! won't delete it when the script terminates. When you don't clean up your temporary files, you'll end up with a big mess of files in your Temp directory.
  Therefore, it would be better if you keep track of all downloaded files and schedule them for deletion on script termination:
  

  js code:

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  // Global array to store downloaded files in
  var arrDownloaded = [];
  
  // On exit, loop through the array and remove all downloaded files
  function OnEvent_Uninitialize() {
      var FSO = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
      var i = arrDownloaded.length;
      while(i--) {
          try { FSO.GetFile(arrDownloaded[i]).Delete(); } catch(e) { }
      }
      arrDownloaded = [];
  }
  
  // On download complete, add the file to the downloaded files array
  function OnEvent_DownloadFileComplete(Url, OutFile, Success) {
      Debug.Trace("DownloadFileComplete event received for " + Url);
      Debug.Trace("   Success: " + Success);
      if(Success) {
  >>>        arrDownloaded.push(OutFile);<<<
          MsgPlus.PlaySound(OutFile);
      }
  }

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You are missing the escape character in this line:

ScriptMenu    +=     "<MenuEntry Id=\"s1">sound1</MenuEntry>";

Sorry for the delay, I'll try the code, thank you for you (matti,matty)