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Hi all,

I am working on a project which needs to include sound recording capability.

So I need a sound recording software for distribution and having the command-line support.

Any ideas and advices will be appreciated.

Thanks for your assistance.

Have a look at
http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/Sound_ ... pture.html

Thanks for your reply Sandyn,

Actually the software you've sent has all the capabilities that I need. There is only one issue that I need to solve. The program has the capability of command-line option however I need a silent version which does not launch the Command Line screen in front of my publication.

Thanks again.

the only way I can see is to set the publication properties to display in a window, select always on top and force the size to the maximum size of your display. This hides the command window. This is not an ideal solution.


In the past, I've looked at programs which has the capability of hiding any window, unfortunately most virus checkers will assume it's a virus... up to no good and the alarm bells go off!!

I couldn't see a 'stop record' command?? Once you get the sound recorder running...how do you intend stopping it?? or will you just set it to record for a period of time??

A previous post mentioned an application which terminates other applications

viewtopic.php?t=2803&highlight=command+line

Have you thought of contacting the developer of this software?

I download and use a lot of freeware and have usually found the developers to be helpful when I've asked how to do something that isn't obvious. In some cases they have even added in the missing feature and released a new version.

That might be worth a try.

Thanks for your replies Sandyn and Sentosa.

sandyn,
I am giving a constant time period (5 seconds), so that I do not need any termination. Unfortunately "Always on top" solution is not ideal for me, because my application also should not be in windowed mode.

Sentosa,
I will do what you adviced, however my deadline for project submission is very soon. So that I am also interested in softwares which are not freeware, but I could not find any application that fulfills my requirements.

Thank you again for your time Sandyn and Sentosa.

I cannot help you by giving you the name of an application that will solve your sound recording problem. I know from experience that stopping a running application from within Opus can be difficult.

It is likely that a resolution exists, but finding it can take a lot of time, and therefore might conflict with your time constraints.

Try a Google search for either (or both) "kill application" or "stop application". The use of the quotes are important. I scored about 700,000 hits for those.

You will also receive hits if, for your search, you substitute app for application.

If you find something that seems to do what you want under Windows, there is no guarantee that the application will successfully operate when triggered from within Opus.

Sorry I can't be more positive than this for you, but that's the reality as I found it.

What you need is a sound recording DLL and Opus V6, BUT unfortunately There doesn't seem to be a DLL which will work with Opus.
see
viewtopic.php?t=2768&highlight=sound+recording+dll
I tried to get bass.dll to work, but couldn't, but there is an error in the code I used for running the DLL. I had been using' "false" 'and it should be' false' so I will try it again to see if I can get it to work.

Sandy

Well, some interesting progress on the sound recorder DLL, but not a great deal yet...haven't had much time to spend on it.
Seems that the "false"/false doesn't seem to make any difference...works with both, but since it should be a boolean I have used false without double quotes.

the code I am using is:-



When I ran the TestIt function, the Debug window returned a value 3.3751 E+007. This should return the revision of the DLL, which should be 2.3.03, so obviously not correct, however after looking at the DLL help file, the returned value is a HEX DWORD, the HiByte contains the major revision and the LoByte the minor revision, so I tried using an array and some other things, but I still didn't get the correct answer. Then I tried inserting the returned value into a text box and the actual value was 33751043, so the debug window was truncating and changing to scientific notation.
BUT 33751043 DEC=2030003 HEX and this IS the revision of the DLL, so it works!!!!!

the next step is to figure out the process of recording!! and how to save it to a file??

Sandy

Sandy

Thanks for yout assistance,
I decided to use HarddiskOgg software for my application. I have some performance issues, but the software is fulfilling my requirements.

Anyway thank you very much for your time.