OpenEuphoria

'birdtwitter.wav'

• Posted by George Henry <ghenryca at HOTMAIL.COM> Nov 25, 2000
• 367 views

Bernie,

I don't want to change the system sounds. Rather, I want to use the current
system sound that is most appropriate to the situation. How do I find out
what wav file Windows is currently using for "program error", so I can play
that sound, instead of some arbitrarily chosen sound?

It's the same sound that message_box() -- drilling a little deeper,
MessageBoxA() in user32.dll -- plays (whether I want it to or not, which
generally I don't 8^( ). On my computer and instance of Windows 98, since
I'm using the Falling Leaves desktop theme, that sound happens to be a bird
twitter. But I don't want to try to play "birdtwitter.wav" (not the actual
name, I'm not bothering to look it up just now) on EVERYONE's computer, when
my program experiences an error, esp. considering that they may not even
HAVE the Falling Leaves theme on their machine! See my problem?

George

>From: Bernie <xotron at PCOM.NET>

>... your program should
      use it's own wave files and not be concerned about what sounds
      are associated with what instance. Remember that a user maybe
      running a word processor or some other program at the same time
      as your application is running. Changing the system sounds changes
      the sounds for all runing programs and may mess up the other
      programs that are running. There are files in the archive for
      playing wave files.

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