Determine Current Sound Volume

[flyingboz]

Short Story:

App uses traytip to provide visual notification. When this happens via au3, it includes an annoying beep.

Desire to stop the annoying beep.

One way of doing this would be to set the sound volume to zero on execution, and reset it at script completion.

Unfortunately, I don't see a way in au3 to detect the current system volume level , such that I can save / restore it as desired.

Suggestions to solve this issue by eliminating the beep in the first place and / or being able to save the current volume welcomed.

As I write this , it strikes me that a mute / unmute function would also suffice, were there a nice way to do so.

Would love to have a solution for the most general case, however -- which would be to detect / save / restore the current volume after doing whatever I wanted w/ it.

[somdcomputerguy]

Does this work on your system?

Send("{VOLUME_MUTE}")

[l3ill]

I assume you have considered:

Function SoundSetWaveVolumeSoundSetWaveVolume

Which BTW only changes the wave volume not the Master.

Then just set it back to 35% or so...

[Valuater]

This and many other GREAT additions to your script.... Autoit Wrappers

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=19370&view=findpost&p=133776

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Edited April 11, 2010 by Valuater

[l3ill]

Whats a wrapper...?

aren't they the guys that get paid a lot of money for writing dirty poems:unsure:

[flyingboz]

I assume you have considered:

SoundSetWaveVolume()

Yes, ty.

Point is to set it back exactly where it was, not some arbitrary number.

[flyingboz]

Does this work on your system?

Send("{VOLUME_MUTE}")

This indeed works properly on XP. Thanks for the addition to my toolset. Valuater's link to the appropriate DLL Call wrapper will be the basis for the solution of choice, as it covers the generic use case, and enables me to build a TrayTipSilent() UDF that properly restores volume at the end of the function. If I understand the applicable differences in win7, vista, xp and w2k correctly, this choice will also (where possible) change the volume for the affected process, not the entire session, whereas mute is a system-wide setting. Edited April 11, 2010 by flyingboz

[flyingboz]

This and many other GREAT additions to your script.... Autoit Wrappers

#133776

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@Valuater

Thanks, not only for this, but all you do for the AutoIT community. I have bookmarked the above UDF for later perusal, and now am at work building my TrayTipSilent() UDF, which suddenly got very easy

[somdcomputerguy]

This indeed works properly on XP.

It works for me too. My laptop runs Vista Home Premium O/S, the sound card is made by Realtek, I don't know or care what the specific model is.. it, the speakers and Winamp work..

[Valuater]

@Valuater

Thanks, not only for this, but all you do for the AutoIT community. I have bookmarked the above UDF for later perusal, and now am at work building my TrayTipSilent() UDF, which suddenly got very easy

Your welcome flyingboz!!!

... and thanks for the kudos!!

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