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Added a few things to the TODO list. Unit testing is becoming more and more important the more features are added and the more combinations of factors there are to test.
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:23:11 +0000
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>SDL_LoadWAV</H1
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>SDL_LoadWAV&nbsp;--&nbsp;Load a WAVE file</DIV
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>#include "SDL.h"</PRE
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><CODE
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>SDL_AudioSpec *<B
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>SDL_LoadWAV</B
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>(const char *file, SDL_AudioSpec *spec, Uint8 **audio_buf, Uint32 *audio_len);</CODE
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This function loads a WAVE <TT
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>file</I
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> into memory.</P
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>If this function succeeds, it returns the given 
<A
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filled with the audio data format of the wave data, and sets 
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>audio_len</I
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to the length of that audio buffer, in bytes.  You need to free the audio 
buffer with <A
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>SDL_FreeWAV</TT
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> when you are
done with it.</P
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>This function returns <TT
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>NULL</TT
> and sets the SDL 
error message if the wave file cannot be opened, uses an unknown data format, 
or is corrupt.  Currently raw, MS-ADPCM and IMA-ADPCM WAVE files are supported.</P
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>SDL_AudioSpec wav_spec;
Uint32 wav_length;
Uint8 *wav_buffer;

/* Load the WAV */
if( SDL_LoadWAV("test.wav", &#38;wav_spec, &#38;wav_buffer, &#38;wav_length) == NULL ){
  fprintf(stderr, "Could not open test.wav: %s\n", SDL_GetError());
  exit(-1);
}
.
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/* Do stuff with the WAV */
.
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/* Free It */
SDL_FreeWAV(wav_buffer);</PRE
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