Play external Sound File

[sunshineh]

Hi,

the function PlaySound(...) plays the soundfile that must be located in terminal_directory\Sounds or its sub-directory.

How can I play a sound file from the C:\Windows\Media path?

[William Roeder]

1. You can't from mql4. You'd have to shell the file
   • Syntax for calling AutoIt compiled Script (.exe) using ShellExecuteW in MT4 EA (Quest) - MQL4 forum
   • run a *.bat from EA (Route206) - MQL4 forum
   • Execute an exe-file from MQL (Steffen Siegert) - MQL4 forum
2. Disk space is cheap, just copy the file. Or make a hard link to it: fsutil hardlink create soundsDirectory existingFile
   

[Fernando Carreiro]

I can think of two possibilities:

• Either, use a DLL call to the WinAPI for that
• or add a Junction Point to the "terminal_directory\Sounds" to point to other media folders.

[JC]

sunshineh:

Hi,

the function PlaySound(...) plays the soundfile that must be located in terminal_directory\Sounds or its sub-directory.

How can I play a sound file from the C:\Windows\Media path?

An adaptation of https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/148934:

#import "winmm.dll"
   int PlaySoundW(string, int, int);
#import

void OnStart()
{
   PlaySoundW("c:\\windows\\media\\chimes.wav", 0, 1 /* SND_ASYNC */);
}

[sunshineh]

Great!!!

Thank you very much!