recognizing audio cards

[DMacKay]

To anyone out there who may be able to help me,here is my
problem...I want to include audio in my application of Authorware
version 3 but what i am looking for is some way of having authorware be
able to recognize whether or not a computer has a sound card or not.
The intro has an intro score but throughout the application I
want to be able to include audio without having the annoying audio box
pop up promting the user as to whether or not they want to ignore this
or simply continue.
While using version2 i couldn't get the answer but I am hoping
with version 3 it can be done.
I would like to have it so that when the user opens the
application , authorware recognizes whether or not they have a sound
card ,and if not go on without the music as well as without the annoying
little Dialog warning box's popping up.

Many thanks in advance

[Kyle Reed]

>Many thanks in advance

We recently had the same dilemma. We found a third party DLL that
determines whether or not a sound card exists on the target system. We
downloaded the DLL from the CompuServe Macromedia forum. If you don't
have CS, the guy who wrote the DLL is:

Tim Miller
P.O. Box 62454
Colorado Springs, CO 80962
America On-Line: Timbobweh
Compuserve: 73637,1216
Internet: Timb...@aol.com

In addition to determining if a sound card exists on the target
system, in order to make use of this info, we:

1) set up a variable (i.e., Sound) in which we stored a value for the
existence of a sound card - 1 for true, 0 for false

2) then, in each sound icon in the application, where specifying how
many times to repeat the sound, we inserted an equation using the
value of the Sound variable (something like: 1 x Sound); that way, if
there is no sound card, the sound plays 1 x 0, or zero times; if there
is a sound card, it plays 1 x 1, or once.

Hope this helps,

Kyle Reed
kr...@canon.com

BTW: We are using AW 3.0; not sure if this works with version 2.0

[Kyle Reed]

>I want to include audio in my application of Authorware
>version 3 but what i am looking for is some way of having authorware
>be able to recognize whether or not a computer has a sound card or
>not.
>The intro has an intro score but throughout the application I >want
to be able to include audio without having the annoying audio
>box pop up promting the user as to whether or not they want to ignore
>this or simply continue.
>While using version2 i couldn't get the answer but I am hoping >with
version 3 it can be done.
>I would like to have it so that when the user opens the
>application , authorware recognizes whether or not they have a sound
>card ,and if not go on without the music as well as without the
>annoying little Dialog warning box's popping up.

>Many thanks in advance

(I responded once to this, but not sure if it got out as this is my
2nd posting to the group.)