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jhoski
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I am unable to get the ph.playsound("sound.wav",0) function to do anything.
All I get is a windows beep and pop-up message that disappears too fast to see.
I was finally able to capture the message which says the script you are running is taking longer than expected to run.
I also tried it in a standalone formula and I still get the windows beep, but I don't see the pop-up window.
Is there some configuration needed to get sounds to play?
I have winamp installed and running.
Thanks
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BeachBum
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If this is not a typo
jhoski wrote:
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then try this: ph_playsound("sound.wav",0)
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jhoski,
Assuming you're using vbscript (otherwise, Pete has the correct format), you may need to remove the parenthesis like this:
ph.playsound "tada.wav",0
I just tested this and verified on my system and successfully played back the sound. I also got the timeout messagebox so just set the timeout value to -1 so I wouldnt get it (the sound still played though).
The ph_playsound and ph.playsound routines don't use Winamp and just use the standard Windows multimedia device. You may want to try Pete's version as a standard PH formula to verify that you do get sound being played. If you don't, I suspect that a default WAV device is not setup (or the volume is too low/muted for the WAV out device).
Dave.
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jhoski
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Thanks,
I have it working now. My syntax was correct using javascript, it was several other errors on my part.
You seem to get the windows beep I mentioned when it cannot find the file.
I had read in a different post that it would find files by default in the powerhome web directory, however that appears to be untrue.
So I put a full path name in a simple formula and it worked.
So back to javascript and it still did not work. Then I remembered that in javascript the backslash is an escape character in strings. They have to be doubled up to get a single backslash. After I got the file name string right it started working.
Thanks.
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