Vista Tutorial - Is it possible to trap as an event when a certain sound plays, IE: Ding.wav

Most will trap an event then play a sound file,
however I want to get notified by trapping when the Ding.wav is played ?

> Most will trap an event then play a sound file,I c a n ' t t h i n k o f a n y t h i n g s h o r t
o f a s y s t e m - w i d e h o o k t h a t w a t c h e s
f o r a n y p r o c e s s o p e n i n g t h e . w a v
f i l e . T h a t ' s n o t a V B S - f r i e n d l y t a s k .
M a y b e i t w o u l d h e l p t o e x p l a i n w h a t
y o u ' r e t r y i n g t o a c c o m p l i s h .

On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:23:19 GMT, mayayana wrote:
Holy snapping crap! What happened?

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?..??

If you mean the weird spacing it's because my
first post got eaten by Microsoft's strange spam
filter. I can never figure out what sets it off, so
when it happens I just drop the text of my post
onto a little Desktop script that I keep for the
purpose. It inserts a space after every character.
The result is not as easy to read, but at least it
gets through.

Harold, I believe you could do this with a WMI Event Consumer script.

Such a script is available in Ed Wilson's MSPRess book Windows
Scripting with WMI (Self Paced Learning Guide).

I attended a Microsoft sponsored workshop that was taught by the author
of this book. Important note: The author made the class aware that a
line was missing in the event consumer script in both the print and
companion CD versions.

To get the script to run, at the bottom of page 110 add the following
line of code.

objfilter.EventNameSpace = "root\cimv2"

Hope that helps,

Mark D. MacLachlan

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.

"Harold Little" <harold.little@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OHXuhlx%23JHA.4560@xxxxxx

urkec wrote:
Checking for file access of the DING.WAV file.

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hls wrote: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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