How Best To See If A Wav Exists Before Playing?

[ktruk]

Hi, probably a stupid question, but what is the best way to detect the presence of a wav file before playing it, and if it is not there, play something else?

 

I guess this needs to be VBScript, open a file object using the wav filespec, if "object is nothing" do something else, then calll vg.Play_Start() etc...

 

A sort of: "if exists(wavA) then playit(wavA) else playIt(wavB)"

 

Just not clear how to do this...!

 

Any help appreciated - thx - Tim.

[SupportTeam]

Use VBscript to run a "DIR" equivalent command on the file you want to play, and if "DIR" reports that the file is not there then play some other file.

[ktruk]

thx - but can you be a little more explicit?

 

I reckon I need something from FileSystemObject... Do you have anything you can just paste in here?

 

thx - tim

[ktruk]

Found something here...

 

Function ReportFileStatus(filespec)

Dim fso, msg

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

If (fso.FileExists(filespec)) Then

msg = filespec & " exists."

Else

msg = filespec & " doesn't exist."

End If

ReportFileStatus = msg

End Function

 

Should be able to work it out from here - thx - tim.