>>>Hello I'm working with VFP 5.0 and Win95/98
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>>>Help please, I have a need to play system style beeps through the system speaker..... not a sound card.
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>>>I know about setting BELL on and using ?? CHR(7). Now if I could have more than one sound or even repeating the BELL so I could have 1 beep for one event, 2 beeps for another and so on.
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>>>Any help would be appreciated.
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>>Try this
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>>set bell to 'c:\winnt4\media\chimes.wav',2
>>??chr(7)
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>>If the wav file does not exist, the default beep is used. The second parameter is the duration. Personally, I don't see a difference with the wav files I use.
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>>To sound twice just call ??chr(7) twice.
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>>set bell to 'c:\winnt4\media\chimes.wav',2
>>??chr(7)
>>??chr(7)
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>>Hope this helps.
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>I tried both of these, and as you said I see no difference in the duration, but even when I call it twice it only sounds once. I'm calling this in a function and if I call it twice[as above] I get an error when it runs. If I call it once it plays once.
>Wait, let me go pound my head on the wall..I've been at this to long.
>thanks for the advice though.

Hi Dave
Using set bell you can't call it again until it finishes playing.
Two answers.
1/Determine the length of the sound and wait in code the same period of time ( a real PITA, but that's what I did for an sound rich app)
2/Use shellexecute API to play it via some other app.
The duration parameter is essential, but ignored by Fox.
HTH