Cheat Engine

[alienczf]

My friend suggested to me to script a program that logs some keystroke that when pressed, will trigger a sound as a sort of mental training to develop perfect pitch.

I'm a complete noob in this area and thus will require help and recommendations in everything. I have about 2 months+ to develop this project which i think is enough for me to familiarize myself with the different languages and script it hopefully.

So, any suggestions as to which area of any particular language to research upon regarding this programs will be appreciated greatly.

Thanks in advance.

[HolyBlah]

I dont know about what language... but you can use getasynckeystate().

here is the virtual-key codes all keys:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms645540.aspx

[oib111]

I don't get this you mean your program will pick up all keystrokes and like it will play a sound for like A, B, C, D, E, F, G keys? And then maybe like if you hit + or minus and then play it it goes an octave higher? I don't get this

[alienczf]

My bad for not making it clear. Yeah it's the first case you mentioned in that when u hit A-G on your keyboard it plays the note... Don't worry about the sounds itself cuz i have a library for it already

[assaf84]

You can make a window and handle the WM_KEYDOWN message, or you can use GetAsyncKeyState in an infinite loop, or you can use RegisterHotkey.

[atom0s]

Use GetAsyncKeyState() and Beep()

A quick example in VB6: (Add a timer and set the interval to 100)

[alienczf]

thx Wiccaan for your input. Gonna look further into the actual application and scripting of GetAsyncKeyState, ok here's the thing.. how much more complicated will it be to play music media files raw or compressed instead of using motherboard beeps?

[atom0s]

Depends on how you wish to play the sound files. If you wanted to you could use chiptune style formats which are a lot more smaller then most standard formats and use an extension such as miniFMod with most languages. That way you could compile your sounds into a resource and compress it to keep the file size small.

[sired22]

you could try this. I use visual studio 9.0 but it should be easy to understand. On the forms key down event tell it to play the file at
{application path}\sounds\{Letter Pressed}.wav

[nog_lorp]

[AdamWest]

2 months isent enough to completely understand a language to the point where you can program something great with it.



V6 or C++ will work for your job.

DESU!

[alienczf]

tried to compile the prog with dev c++ with its default template for a windows app by adding the code given by nog_lorp and a few error's came out.

Firstly the \c \d and \g in the file names will trigger a warning that relates to unknown escape sequence which will eventually cause a error regarding undefined reference to playsound command

Even after i commented the lines involving c,d and g
the undefined reference error still shows

Lastly, can some 1 explain to me as to wat exactly does the below mean and do.

SND_FILENAME The pszSound parameter is a filename.

p.s.
I attatched the pic about the errors in case no 1 understand wat i'm saying

[DeltaFlyer]

In C based languages, the back slash "\" indicates the start of an escape sequence which is sort of like a command within the string. For example, "\t" will be translated into a tab, "\r" into a carriage return, "\n" into a new line. If one only wants the back slash character, double back slashes "\\" will be needed. That would be the fix to your first problem. Refer to here for a list of escape sequences in C++: http://www.cppreference.com/escape_sequences.html

The linker errors indicate you did not link the required libraries. Referring to MSDN's documentation: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms712879.aspx , PlaySound is in Winmm.lib, so configure your linker accordingly.

[alienczf]

thx delta for the quick reply and solution regarding the blackslash issue..

Edit: i've added the library. but the error still shows... any hint as to how to configure the library/linker?