Audio Device Change Script Help

[ElXando]

Hi there,

I regularly swap audio devices on my PC due to Windows incapability to playback through 2 at once - after some googling I found an AutoIt script someone had written to do exactly that! I downloaded and installed AutoIt, pasted the script into the editor, saved it and compiled it as an .exe. I then use my keyboard software to assign one of my media buttons to open the program.

One small problem - after the Sound window it opened, it doesn't become active, so it sits there until I click on it. Here's the script:

;-----Configuration-----
;The title of the sound config window.
Dim $ConfigWindowTitle = "Sound"
;-----End of configuration----

Dim $ItemNumber = 4 ; The first itme in the audio list

If FileExists ("a") Then; Use the existence of a file to know if we should toggle
    FileDelete("a")
    $ItemNumber = 2 ; The audio playback device you want to toggle to
Else
    FileOpen("a", 1)
    FileClose("a")
EndIf

Run("control mmsys.cpl") ;Run the sound control applet and hide it.

WinWaitActive($ConfigWindowTitle) ;Wait for it to be active before sending keystrokes.

Send("{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}") ;Put the focus on the list

For $i = 1 to $ItemNumber Step 1
    Send("{DOWN}")
Next

Send("!s") ;Press Alt + S to set the selected device as the default.
WinClose($ConfigWindowTitle)

I did some googling to see if I could solve this, and tried adding "WinGetTitle("Sound")" just before the WinWaitActive bit, but to no avail.

Also, I was wondering if I could make it only change the default device, not the default device and default communications device.

Thanks!

[disposable]

Perhaps you should try the direct approach and do the changes to the registry instead of opening the control panel applet.

try looking for \\HK... Software\Microsoft\Multimedia\Sound Mapper

Autoit has a complete set of registry editing functions built in.

[ElXando]

Perhaps you should try the direct approach and do the changes to the registry instead of opening the control panel applet.

try looking for \\HK... Software\Microsoft\Multimedia\Sound Mapper

Autoit has a complete set of registry editing functions built in.

Errr... I'm not sure how I'd go about that, I'm not very familiar with AutoIt

It'd be far easier to just modify this script to just make Sound the active window I think, just a bit stumped :/