I forgot to mention you can string these *.wavs together to speak sentances. This adds implied intelligence to your apps and you don't need a sound player.

Dave

>Disect the sound you want to play into a single *.wav file. SET BELL TO *.wav, and then issue ?CHR(7).
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>Dave
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>>I have an application where I need to inform the user that something needs attention.
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>>2 questions:
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>>1) I have installed the sample sound player control that comes with VFP under solutions and it seems to work fine. However I would like to extract only the needed parts to play a sound on demand. That is I would like a control or prg that only has the code needed to play a sound. The sample is very large and I believe also plays vidio. Does anyone know if there is something that will do this? I tried to extract only the needed code but I guess I missed a few things.
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>>2) After I installed the app on one PC I got a message saying something about THE MCI IS NOT INSTALLED or something like that. Is there a way to check to see if the Media Control Interface is installed? If it isn't then I can give the user a messagebox in place of the sound.
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>>I tried using search here and under files but looking for sound player brings up a lot of unrelated items.
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>>Many thanks in advance.