[bug?] External Sounds

[Benicle]

In my game I have all my sounds stored externally and I use the play sample file function to play them. When I test my app by pressing F8 in MMF2 everything's fine. But if I build an exe of it no sound plays, I have confirmed that letting MMF2 embed the sounds makes them play still but no external files do. I have tried both appdrive$ + appdir$ + "file.wav" and "./file.wav". Both work in MMF2 but not in an exe. Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong (or if it's a bug)?

[KetchupMaster]

are you putting the .exe in the same directory as the .MFA? If not, you need to.

[Benicle]

Yes, I'm not stupid lol.

[Olivier]

When you're playing external sound files, MMF can't automatically tell which sound filters to use. In the Application Properties edit the Sound Filters, uncheck 'Automatic' then check 'WAVE'.

[Dynasoft]

This happens all the time.

Could we have a warning pop up (when running the .mfa) when it tries to play an external file and the filters are set to "automatic"? Ditto for images.

[Olivier]

Yup that's one of the most asked question. Probably in the top 10 with "Can't display string/counter in front of.."

[Benicle]

lol I take back my not stupid comment then, thanks a lot you guys! And a popup would be very nice indeed!