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Old 07-03-2009   #8 (permalink)
mr_unreliable


 
 

Re: Is it possible to trap as an event when a certain sound plays,

hls wrote:
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> Thanks, I will research the book.
> When Ding wav plays it is Southwest alerting at my pc.
> I want to trap and send a text to alert my cellphone.
>
Hi Harold,

I expect (even with a language more amenable to hooking
than vbs) that you are going to have trouble detecting
your "ding".

For a start, if you wish to consider vb, then take a look
at the vb Utilities found here. There are pre-programmed
utilities which make it easy to implement various types of
system hooks, including thread hooks (which you can do-it-
yourself in vb) and system-wide hooks (needs c++ or some
other more capable language such as delphi).

http://allapi.mentalis.org/vbexample...?category=MISC

You may have better luck with the process hook than anything
else. I suspect that "Southwest" (whoever they are) will have
to run some app or mini-app (IM?) to play the ding. It would
be easier to insert a process hook or a window hook to catch
the IM popup, than to attempt to catch an api call. (Generally
one will call a multimedia api to play a wav file, rather than
use a music player -- less overhead).

cheers, jw
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