Playing a sound file with a JavaScript function 
February 6th, 2008, 02:49 PM
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This code was written by acoder serveral (139) days ago. So I decided to post it. -
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function play() {
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embed = document.createElement("embed");
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embed.setAttribute("src", "soundfile.wav");
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embed.setAttribute("hidden", true);
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embed.setAttribute("autostart", true);
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document.body.appendChild(embed);
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}
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^_^ Thanks, Death
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February 7th, 2008, 10:05 AM
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| | | re: Playing a sound file with a JavaScript function
to make it a little bit more useful we should slightly adapt it to accept the file to play as a parameter, and strictly seen we should declare the variable embed :) -
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function play(file) {
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var embed = document.createElement("embed");
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embed.setAttribute('src', file);
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embed.setAttribute('hidden', true);
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embed.setAttribute('autostart', true);
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document.body.appendChild(embed);
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}
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so now we could simply call: - onclick="play('file.wav');"
on any element we want ...
kind regards
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February 7th, 2008, 10:10 AM
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I probably posted that from somewhere - no need to attribute it to me.
Besides the points made above, embed is actually non-standard, but sometimes required for backwards compatibility. The element to use now is object.
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February 7th, 2008, 11:21 PM
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Originally Posted by acoder I probably posted that from somewhere - no need to attribute it to me.
Besides the points made above, embed is actually non-standard, but sometimes required for backwards compatibility. The element to use now is object. | so we could adapt it further :) -
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function play(file, obj) {
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if (typeof obj == 'undefined') {
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obj = 'object';
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}
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var node = document.createElement(obj);
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node.setAttribute('src', file);
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node.setAttribute('hidden', true);
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node.setAttribute('autostart', true);
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document.body.appendChild(node);
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}
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now we could call: - onclick="play('file.wav');"
that creates the 'object' as default or: - onclick="play('file.wav', 'object');"
or even with 'embed' instead of 'object' in case we need to do that ;)
kind regards
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