>>I've found that wav files, whether included in the project or not, will not be found by SET BELL unless the full path to the wav file is there. I don't include wav files in the project anymore and issue LOCFILE() to get the full path to the wav file for SET BELL.
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>Ta Steve
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>I was hoping to find someone would know a way of being able to obtain the contents of a file (any file) that was known to be a part of the project. The next step would be to get SET BELL to play it. Or perhaps to get a sound player OCX to do it.
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>The LOCFILE() method is similar to having (as I do) a variable that permanently holds the path to the WAV file folder. But I don't want a WAV file folder!
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>I don't need a bitmap folder to show pictures.
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>John Burton

I put such files into the same directory as the EXE file - so it distributes easily with the install wizard, and it's relatively easy to determine the directory of the current EXE file....