Playing a beep under Win98

[Corkwick]

Hi,

I want to play a beep sound with a specified frequency and duration under Win 98 and Win2000.
I know, that there is no problem with Win2000, because the function "Beep(freq, duration)" plays such specified sound.
Under Win98 the parameters are ignored. So : is there an easy way to play such a sound ? or do I have to use DirectSound ?

Thank's in advance,

Corkwick

[sstofka]

"Notify.wav" is a beep sound. It's in the Windows\Media directory.

#include <mmsystem.h>

Include the library file
#pragma comment(lib, _T("winmm.lib"))

Then use PlaySound().
You can use SND_FILENAME | SND_ASYNC | SND_NODEFAULT as flags.
Add SND_LOOP if you want to loop it.

So, the whole thing might look like
PlaySound(_T("C:\\Windows\\Media\\Notify.wav"), NULL, SND_FILENAME | SND_ASYNC | SND_NODEFAULT);

Steve

[Corkwick]

Thank you, Steve,

my problem ist, that I want to dynamically change duration and frequency of the beep,

so loading a .wav file is no option.

Do you have any other solution for me ?

Thanks again,

Corkwick