From: "Kurt Kuzba" 


From: Neil.Heller!1.106.2000.0{at}filegate.net
NH>  I was thinking that at one place in a program I wrote I would
NH>  like to have some sort of sound (other than a simple beep or
NH>  bell which usually indicates an error).  My conclusion was that
NH>  it would probably be easiest (as well as sounding the best) if
NH>  I could play a simple wav file.  The trouble is that I don't
NH>  know where to even start looking for help on the web.
NH>  Does anybody have an idea of a word or phrase that might be the
NH>  seed for a search?  BTW, if it makes any difference, I'm working
NH>  with MSVC in NT.

    Windows supports sounds and has a function which is callable from
 C in a Windows app.

BOOL PlaySound(LPCSTR pszSound, HMODULE hmod, DWORD fdwSound);

    Do a search in your MSVC Help for this function.  There is an
 example in Chapter 2 of Charles Petzold's "Programming Windows 95".
 [Microsoft Press - ISBN 1-55615-676-6]
 (available used via Amazon for $5.14~$25)

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