C# Sound Player

[samwilki]

Well, I have got a program and I need it to play a sound in an if statement, this is my code.

if (ReportRTB.Text != oldReports && !first && server == "gofish")

                    notIcon.ShowBalloonTip(500, "New report", "A new report has been recieved on the Go Fish server.", ToolTipIcon.Info);



                else if (ReportRTB.Text != oldReports && !first && server == "underdone")
                    notIcon.ShowBalloonTip(500, "New report", "A new report has been recieved on the Underdone server.", ToolTipIcon.Info);

I added System.Media.SoundPlayer aSoundPlayer = new System.Media.SoundPlayer(@"\\Resources\\Sound\\New Report.wav"); in the if statement, it totally breaks it, gives me errors like.

Only assignment, call, increment, decrement, and new object expressions can be used as a statement

Invalid expression term 'else'

; expected

That is the else if line.

[Darwin226]

@"\\Resources\\Sound\\New Report.wav"

If you use @ you don't need double backslashes.

[URL="http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/harishankar2005/verbatim_literals11262005010742AM/verbatim_literals.aspx"]Verbatim string literals.[/URL]

[samwilki]

Ok thanks, anyone know why I am getting them errors?

[ZeekyHBomb]

Yeah, that's because the if-statement will only work for a single line of code without using brackets.
Use brackets and you can also optimize the ifs and use a pretty switch by doing
[cpp]if(ReportRTB.Text != oldReports && !first){
String servername;
switch(server){
case "gofish": servername = "Go Fish"; break;
case "underdone": servername = "Underdone"; break;
default: servername = "invalid"; break;
}
notIcon.ShowBalloonTip(500, "New report", "A new report has been recieved on the " + servername + " server.", ToolTipIcon.Info);
}[/cpp]
Also, is there any reason why server cannot equal the server-name directly?

[samwilki]

Thanks so much for that, well now, I need to put the sound code back in, I added it under the notIcon line like this.

                    notIcon.ShowBalloonTip(500, "New report", "A new report has been recieved on the " + servername + " server.", ToolTipIcon.Info);
                    System.Media.SoundPlayer aSoundPlayer = new System.Media.SoundPlayer(@"\Report.wav");

And it still wont work.

[ZeekyHBomb]

Well, you still have to call Play(Sync) on it.
It's probably best if you store it as a private class member and call Load(Async) in the constructor, so the sound gets precached.

[samwilki]

Thanks so much :D.