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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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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).
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