beep sound - how do I generate in AutoIt3

[swin4ort]

When certain slow activities are complete in my program, I want to send an audible cue to the user to respond. The help says ASCII 7 is "Bell, rings the bell... (Plays Windows' default beep)"; but:

Send("{ASC 7}")

doesn't work. Thanks

[swin4ort]

Soundplay launches the media player - this is a little heavy for a simple beep. I thought a little more about this and came up with something that works:

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MsgBox(0,"Before the Beep","")

beep()

MsgBox(0,"After the Beep","")

Exit

;

Func beep()

If Not FileExists("C:\BEEP.bat") Then

$str = "prompt "

FileWriteLine("C:\BEEP.bat", $str)

EndIf

RunWait(@ComSpec & " /c C:\BEEP.bat", "", @SW_HIDE)

EndFunc

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Note: in $str = is ctrl-G character

Thanks to 'scriptkitty' for earlier posting on using RunWait without flashing.

Is there any way to make this shorter - esp to eliminate the need for BAT file?

IAN

[CyberSlug]

Run(@ComSpec & " /c echo " & Chr(7), "", @SW_HIDE)

Hope that works for you

[ezzetabi]

Wow, it actually beeps the pc speaker... It is maybe better find a way to select the .wav?

[trids]

Run(@ComSpec & " /c echo " & Chr(7), "", @SW_HIDE)

Hope that works for you

Very neat, Sluggie .. at last my dumb pc has found its voice!

Perhaps this can find its way into the CHM as an example of .. I dunno, @SW_HIDE? Hmmm .. or even as part of the rumoured tutorial

[Somerset]

ok have not tried this but, here are the associated players that can play a wav from with in windows...

wmplayer.exe
mplayer2.exe
amovie.ocx
sndrec32.exe
mplay32.exe
mplayer.exe

from what i have read almost if not all support /play /close switches afterwards followed by the wav file path and name of file.... the only one that is different is the amovie.ocx and it command are

rundll amovie.ocx,RunDll /play /close

i believe... if it doesn't run with rundll, try rundll32. also all the above is not included in all versions of windows. you will have to experiment... i cannot find amovie.ocx, and mplayer.exe in windws 2000. Oh i have read somewhere that mplay32.exe is limited in path length, so let it be known... i hope this all helps...