How To Get Java Sound

Question

I need some help/assistance w. getting some sound to be played in a Java Applet!!! Do I use the "getCodeBase( )" and/or the "getResource( )" methods to do this?

Answer 1

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I need some help/assistance w. getting some sound to be played in a Java Applet!!! Do I use the "getCodeBase( )" and/or the "getResource()" methods to do this?>getCodeBase() helps find resources relative to the codebase of the applet. If a WAV were in the same directory as the applet, it might be possible to construct an URL like this..
URL theWavURL;
try
  theWavURL = new URL( getCodeBase(), "the.wav" );
catch(MalformedURLException murle) {
  murle.printStackTrace();
// use the URL ..
AudioClip clip = getAudioClip(theWavURL);getResource() is used for resources that are on the classpath of the applet, which adds upp to 'the things in Jar's that are referenced in the archive attribute of the applet element'.
It is not especially a good idea to put things like sounds into Jar files, since they are often already compressed, and for that reason it does not make much sense to try to recompress them (the result is often bigger), and if you put them in a separate 'undeflated' Jar, it simply represents a 'bunch of uncompressed sounds' that would be just as easy to get from the same directory (or sub-directory, or relative directory) using a relative path from the the codebase, as any other way.