QSound example

[AndreiDutu]

I am trying to do an app and I want to use QSound.
Unfortunately I can’t get it to work. I read the "documentation":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qsound.html but they don’t explain what’s the most important part: where do you store the audio file and how to declare it.
Does anybody have a simple example that uses QSoud?

A button that makes a sound when you press it or something like that.

Thanks.

[vinb]

I would use a resource file and store my sounds in there and just use

@
void MainWindow::on_pushButton_clicked()
{
QSound sound(":/sounds/notification");
sound.play();
/*
OR
QSound::play(":/sounds/notification");
*/

}
@
Where ":/" = the notification that u use a resource file.
"/sounds/" = the prefix you made in your resource file.
"notification" = the alias u gave the .wav file u use.
Instead of using an alias u also can give the filename like "sound.wav", but i think its "better" to use an alias. That way u only have to change your resource file when u want to use an other sound for the notification.
When u dont want to use a resourcefile just pass the whole "path to sound file" to the play function

[kkrzewniak]

From the doc:
Note that QSound does not support resources. This might be fixed in a future Qt version.

[AndreiDutu]

That’s why I asked for a working example. I tried with the resource file, didn’t worked.
I tried with the path to the file but here I get stuck. What is the relative path to file?

How can I define the path so it works when I will compile for mobile ?

[kkrzewniak]

for Symbain just:
@soundFiles.sources = sounds*.wav
DEPLOYMENT += soundFiles@
to Your project file
and i code
@QSound *sound = new QSound("some.wav",this);@

[danilocesar]

Is it Symbian or Windows?

If it's linux it's not going to work.

[AndreiDutu]

In the end i will compile the app for Symbian. Right now i am just tring in the Qt SDK (on windows) but with no succes.

[kkrzewniak]

If your running it with QtSimulator, have You tried copping the sound files to the apps simulator folder? And I don't remember if simulator has sound output. QFile::exists might be helpful for debugging if the sound file gets found.

[AndreiDutu]

I got it to work, thanks guys.

And i confirm, the sound doesn't work in the simulator, only on the symbian device. Good thing i had my C7 to test on. :)