How to play a standard windows sound?
Question
How do I find out which sound files the user has configured in the control panel?
Example: I want to play the sound for "Device connected".
Which API can be used to query the control panel sound settings?
I see that there are some custom entries made by third party programs in the control panel dialog, so there has to be a way for these programs to communicate with the global sound settings.
Edit: Thank you. I did not know that PlaySound also just played appropriate sound file when specifying the name of the registry entry.
To play the "Device Conntected" sound:
::PlaySound( TEXT("DeviceConnect"), NULL, SND_ALIAS|SND_ASYNC );
Solution
PlaySound is the API ,also see Play System Sounds
OTHER TIPS
Not Win32, but for .net anyway, you can do this using the following in C#:
System.Media.SystemSounds.Asterisk.Play();
// Plays the Asterisk sound (used for Information (i))
// Also available:
// Exclamation (Warning /!\)
// Hand (aka Critical Stop - Error (X))
// Question (?)
// Beep (aka Default Beep)
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