From: Jerry Coffin 

At 11:15 AM 12/10/2003, you wrote:

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

sndPlaySound or PlaySound will do the job.  I believe you could also do
this by sending MCI commands to the wave-audio device.  If you wanted to be
able to substitute playing a CD, a video, etc., instead of a .wav file, the
latter might provide an advantage; otherwise, sndPlaySound or PlaySound are
undoubtedly easier.


         Later,
         Jerry.

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