Countdown timer that plays music at the end.

[Axyle]

As the title suggests I'm trying to make a countdown timer that will play a music file at the end. I'm new to C/C++ and truly have no idea what to do, I've looked around on this site and found the basic "countdown started, 10 to 1 then fire" code but I was wondering if there was anyway to modify that to use minutes and play a music file at the end. Thank you for any constructive replies ahead of time.

[cran]

if you don't have to do milliseconds or anything, you could just use time() to get the seconds and after a given amount of seconds do what you want.

[Axyle]

Is there any way for it to transition from like 5 minutes down to like 1 minute then from there go into seconds or does it have to stay one unit of time?

[TonyMUK]

This is the code I use to output minutes and seconds within a timer loop. This routine is in my main dialog callback procedure. It counts down from a value set in EntryTimeRemaining to 0. When 0 it outputs various messages. All you would need to do is call your music routine instead.

    switch(uMsg)
    {

    case WM_TIMER:
    {
        EntryTimeRemaining -= 1;
        sprintf(ConvertedTime,"%d:%.2d",(EntryTimeRemaining / 60),(EntryTimeRemaining % 60));
        if(EntryTimeRemaining >= 0)
        {
            SetDlgItemText(hwndDlg,TimeValue,ConvertedTime);
        }

        if (EntryTimeRemaining == 0)
        {
            KillTimer(hwndDlg, Timer1);
            EnableWindow(GetDlgItem(hwndDlg,WordEntry),false);
            EnableWindow( GetDlgItem(hwndDlg, WordSubmit), false);
            sprintf(NoOfWords,"%d",WordCount);
            sprintf(cPossibles,"%d",Possibles);
            for(int h=0; h<50; h++) MessageText2[h] = '\0';
            strcat(MessageText2," You got ");
            strcat(MessageText2,NoOfWords);
            strcat(MessageText2," out of ");
            strcat(MessageText2,cPossibles);
            MessageBox(0,MessageText2,"Congratulations",0);
            CheckHighScore();
        }
    }
}

This is where I set the time in seconds and then start the timer. The 1000 is the number of milliseconds between ticks (therefore 1 second).

            EntryTimeRemaining = 180;
            SetTimer(hwndDlg,Timer1,1000,(TIMERPROC)NULL);

Hope this helps.

TonyM