Okay, I'm making a media player prog, and I need two things for it.

I want to set a URL in the prog itself so it downloads a music file into itself and plays, not something that finds the file and pops up a "Do you wish to download this"

And, the second this is pretty much the same as the first, only I want the prog to download a text file and display the text onscreen.

I posted this in novice, but I guess it's a little advanced for that topic. I'm not good at discerning those things..

Anyway, thanks for any help!

Do you think that is a good idea ?

It (downloading something without the user being asked or aware of it) might be considered intrusive to the users privacy (and ofcourse a security-risk) ....

But if you really want to do it, I think you will have more success looking in the "Extending Game Maker" -forum, where all sorts of DLL's are posted.

ok, so you're trying to load a song into your program, correct?

easy and simple,dood

//Adds the sound
global.loaded_sound = sound_add(get_open_filename("MP3 format files(.mp3)|*.mp3|Midi files(.mid)|*.mid|[whatever type of music file it is]|*[file extension (i.e. .mp3, .wav)]),1,false)

ok, i'll break it down for ya

*We're gonna assign a variable to the new song
global.loaded_sound =

*sound_add(fname,kind,preload) Adds a sound resource to the game. fname is the name of the sound file. kind indicates the kind of sound (0=normal, 1=background, 2=3d, 3=mmplayer) preload indicates whether the sound should immediately be stored in audio memory (true or false). The function returns the index of the new sound, which can be used to play the sound. (-1 if an error occurred, e.g. the file does not exist).

*get_open_filename(filter,fname) Asks the player for a filename to open with the given filter. The filter has the form 'name1|mask1|name2|mask2|...'. A mask contains the different options with a semicolon between them. * means any string. For example: 'bitmaps|*.bmp;*.wmf'. If the user presses Cancel an empy string is returned.

now, just combine em..

Will this work?

no. he doesn't get it. there are some dll's in the extending forum that let you transfer stuff through http so you could do that and then load it in.

Oh, thanks. I've never used DLLs, so this might be fun

Not good breeched music copyright laws
and getting a server to host all those files with people with broadband
are the only ones who can play the music...

Just use winamp media player for this!

ok, forget what they said..

you had it right

//Adds the sound
global.loaded_sound = sound_add(get_open_filename(blah,blah,blah),1,fals
e)
make sure the 'fname' part of it isn't really filled out)

What do you mean, "make sure the 'fname' part of it isn't really filled out) " ? and every time I put in something like "www.mysite.com" it says "Unknown variable 'www'"

GM's commands are for the local computer (or at most your local network), not for internet-connections.

That is why I said you need a DLL (to download the file first).

By the way : have you ever tried to "just open" a file somewhere on the web on your own computer ? And ? What happened ?