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Beginners Column
Making Music
Working with REALbasic's Noteplayer control class
Issue: 2.4 (March/April 2004)
Author: Thomas J. Cunningham
Author Bio: Thomas is a hobbyist programmer who enjoys sharing the RB loving with others ... His online RB Beginner tutorial has had over 20,000 hits!
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Starting Page Number: 30
RBD Number: 2413
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2413.sit Updated: Monday, March 15, 2004 at 1:00 AM
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For this month's beginner column I would like to discuss the NotePlayer Control Class. As usual, the first thing you should do to familiarize yourself with a class or feature in REALbasic is to use the Language Reference (LR) Guide, accessed by the Command-1 key combination. The NotePlayer description indicates that it plays musical notes via QuickTime. Since we can trust that all Macintosh computers come with QuickTime, we should be good to go. Sorry, Microsoft users, I don't do Windows.
A Little Background
Sounds, like icons, enliven and enrich your computer programs. Your user will feel more at home hearing sounds and it can be used as a wonderful complement to your Graphical User Interface (GUI).
In REALbasic, you can use existing sounds easily by dragging and dropping them into your Project Window, but there are rules about compatibility and licensing and such when you use this approach. See the Sidebar for more information. The NotePlayer, on the other hand, is a built-in class that you can easily use and expect to work correctly on any QuickTime-equipped machine. So this fits in nicely for the beginner and you can create an astounding array of unique sounds using this Class.
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