vbQuestion and beep sounds

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Fred Boer

I have created a yes/no messagebox which uses the constant "vbQuestion". I
am used to using "vbInformation", which provides a nice tinkling sound. It
appears vbQuestion doesn't automatically generate a sound. Now... I can
stick in a "docmd.beep", but it makes this ugly "blooping" kind of sound...

1. Why do you think vbQuestion doesn't produce a sound and vbInformation
does?
2. Assuming I *don't* want to mess with my standard Windows sound settings,
is there a way to change the sound used by ".beep"?
3. And, just out of curiosity, what if you *didn't* want vbInformation to
make a sound?

Cheers!
Fred Boer
 
Try changing this setting from windows. Go to Control Panel and
click on Sounds. Look around in there for where you assign sounds
to certain "windows" events.
 
Thanks, but I believe this will change the sounds only on the current
machine, and, also, I don't want to mess with the default windows sound
scheme..

Fred
 
Yea, I understand that, but what I'm getting at is that the sound
you are hearing for the one event is programmed in windows ... not
in VB. If you force a critical stop in your code, it fires the windows
critical stop event, which launches the assigned sound.

I could be wrong about this, but I think that's what's happening here.
 
Oh, I see what you mean; sorry to have misunderstood you! Thanks for your
explanation - I've learned something new...

BTW, I *think* I have a solution that works: I did some more searching and
found a "Playsound" function on Allen Browne's website, and I simply call
this function rather than ".beep".. Of course, the specific .wav file has to
be on every computer, but I can copy the file over when I install the
application...

Thanks again!
Fred
 
Fred Boer said:
I have created a yes/no messagebox which uses the constant
"vbQuestion". I am used to using "vbInformation", which provides a
nice tinkling sound. It appears vbQuestion doesn't automatically
generate a sound. Now... I can stick in a "docmd.beep", but it makes
this ugly "blooping" kind of sound...

1. Why do you think vbQuestion doesn't produce a sound and
vbInformation does?
Click to expand...

It's controlled by the system sounds, settable in the Control Panel ->
Sounds applet.
2. Assuming I *don't* want to mess with my standard Windows sound
settings, is there a way to change the sound used by ".beep"?
Click to expand...

No, but you can play any sound you want with an API call.
3. And, just out of curiosity, what if you *didn't* want
vbInformation to make a sound?
Click to expand...

If you use the MsgBox function, you're out of luck -- it's going to play
the Windows system sound associated with the MsgBoxStyle option you
specify. You'd have to use your own message box form (or a message box
created entirely by API calls).
 
Hi Dirk:
No, but you can play any sound you want with an API call.
Click to expand...

With something like Dev Ashish's "Play Wav/MIDI/Avi/ files" at
http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0011.htm , right?

And, yes, I *should* have found this myself, but I wasn't thinking along the
right lines... I was thinking it had to be something internal to Access, and
the idea of playing an external wav file didn't occur to me until after
posting...

Cheers!
Fred
 
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