[cotekyle]

OK so I am trying to implement sound in my application, it works when I run it in Eclipse, but when I export it as a runnable jar file the sound is lost and the jar file will not run when double-clicked. When I remove the sound from my application and export it as a runnable jar it works perfectly. Can somebody please tell me what I am doing wrong?

To implement sound I have been using a SoundEffect class which plays .wav files, I thought I diagnosed my problem as using that file type, and tried using .snd instead, but it didn't work. An example I found on the Sun website used

play(getClass().getResource("audio/xyz.au"));

but that only seems to work if the class extends Applet and I am extending Canvas.

Here is some of the code I'm currently using in the SoundEffect class.

SoundEffect(String soundFileName) {
      try {
         // Use URL (instead of File) to read from disk and JAR.
         URL url = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResource(soundFileName);
         // Set up an audio input stream piped from the sound file.
         AudioInputStream audioInputStream = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(url);
         // Get a clip resource.
         clip = AudioSystem.getClip();
         // Open audio clip and load samples from the audio input stream.
         clip.open(audioInputStream);
      } catch (UnsupportedAudioFileException e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
      } catch (IOException e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
      } catch (LineUnavailableException e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
      }
   }
 
   // Play or Re-play the sound effect from the beginning, by rewinding.
   public void play() {
      if (volume != Volume.MUTE) {
        volume = Volume.HIGH;
         if (clip.isRunning())
            clip.stop();   // Stop the player if it is still running
         clip.setFramePosition(0); // rewind to the beginning
         clip.loop(0);    // Start playing
          clip.start();
      }
   }

Any/all help would be appreciated.

[erik.price]

Are you sure the sound files are in the correct locations in the JAR?

Also, you should check out this tutorial for an easier way of going about it
http://www.dreaminco...wtopic14083.htm

[cotekyle]

Thank you, can you extend to more than one thing? Because I'm already extending Canvas.

i.e. public class XYZ extends Canvas & JApplet

[erik.price]

No, you can only extend one class. You can implement as many interfaces as needed though.

[Dogstopper]

cotekyle, on 05 May 2010 - 09:49 AM, said:

Thank you, can you extend to more than one thing? Because I'm already extending Canvas.

i.e. public class XYZ extends Canvas & JApplet

As erik.price said, you cannot. However, I think that you should make your custom painting be in its own Java file, extending Canvas (or JPanel), then a separate file with the class that extends JApplet.

[cotekyle]

Dogstopper, on 05 May 2010 - 02:34 PM, said:

cotekyle, on 05 May 2010 - 09:49 AM, said:

Thank you, can you extend to more than one thing? Because I'm already extending Canvas.

i.e. public class XYZ extends Canvas & JApplet

As erik.price said, you cannot. However, I think that you should make your custom painting be in its own Java file, extending Canvas (or JPanel), then a separate file with the class that extends JApplet.

I tried keeping the Sound class that extends JApplet (from the tutorial mentioned before) separate from my class extending Canvas. I am trying to call from the main class extending Canvas by

TESTSOUND.init();

after instantiating it earlier as

private SoundPlayer TESTSOUND;

. I figured then it would just call the init() method which locates the audio file and plays it but that gives me a NullPointerException for the line where I called init(). I feel like I'm just thinking in circles and not getting anywhere.

[Dogstopper]

We can't help without having code to reference.