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From: aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Replacing the beep?
Keywords: Sound, windows, alert beep
Message-ID: <1990Nov2.221413.6515@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 2 Nov 90 22:14:13 GMT
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In article <1990Nov2.170511.21528@cs.ucla.edu> parkerw@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Parker Waechter) writes:
>Is there an aplication that intercepts system messages and lets you set up
>sounds to be played in different types of events?  Ie a sound to be played
>when any aplication is closed, or opened, or resized or focused etc....
>I think there is something or other like this on the Mac.
>
>On this same line, does the SDK have different messages sound commands
>other than "Beep"?  Is there any possibility of someone creating a driver
>for the soundblaster or for MT32's or whatever to use something other
>than a PC speaker?

It seems that for most events a "simple" system message hook would work.  Does
anyone, though, know how I could trap calls to "MessageBeep"?  It can be done--
there was a Win 2.xx program called Zounds that replaced the beep with a 
variety of neat effects.  I'd be more than willing to write something that
traps such beeps, loads a sound file, and plays it with DSOUND.DLL if someone
can point me in the right direction.

For that matter, is there a generic way of "trapping" any system call?  It
seems ATM does something like this by installing a "stub" driver for
system.drv and having it call the old system.drv...

Aaron Wallace