How to use the control in your projects
First of all let us say that if this guide should not be clear to you, feel free to contact our
support team for any doubt or curiosity you may have: we usually answer all of our customers questions in less than 24 hours. Note that the purpose of this guide is to give a taste of the main features available inside
Active Sound Recorder: for a full list of the available properties, methods and events, take a look to the
Table of contents section
.
As an integration to this guide, several examples of use of this component, in Visual Basic 6 language, can be found inside the "Samples" folder: if during the setup phase you left the installation directory to its default, you will find them inside "C:\Program Files\Active Sound Recorder\Samples".
Before starting sound recording management, the component needs to be initialised: for this purpose it's mandatory a call to the
InitRecorder method; the best place to call this initialisation method is usually the container form initialisation function: for example, when using Visual Basic 6, it will be the
Form_Load subroutine.
The purposes of calling the
InitRecorder method are the following:
Synchronising the component with its container form
Choosing an alternative input device to the default one currently selected through the system control panel and, eventually, its input channel that will perform the sound recording.
Once initialized, the control can be used in two different operating modes:
