Re: Play audio clip in an Application

From:
"chump" <rohayre@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
16 Jan 2007 11:20:25 -0800
Message-ID:
<1168975225.248050.40350@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>
It's throwing a null pointer exception before it gets a chance to
end....

java.lang.NullPointerException
    at sun.applet.AppletAudioClip.<init>(AppletAudioClip.java:48)
    at java.applet.Applet.newAudioClip(Applet.java:273)
    at com.gizmo.util.SoundPlayer.playSiren(Unknown Source)
    at com.gizmo.util.SoundPlayer.main(Unknown Source)
sleeping...
Ending...

Knute Johnson wrote:

rohayre@gmail.com wrote:

Does anyone know why this wont play? The wav file is located in the jar
file found on the classpath. What am I missing?

import java.applet.Applet;
import java.applet.AudioClip;
import java.net.URL;

public class SoundPlayer
{
    public void playSiren()
    {
        URL url = this.getClass().getResource("threeHorn.wav");
        AudioClip clip = Applet.newAudioClip(url);
        clip.play();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        new SoundPlayer().playSiren();
    }
}


Looks like the program is ending before the AudioClip can play. Try
putting a sleep after playSiren();

--

Knute Johnson
email s/nospam/knute/

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