Re: EL making noise ?

[tlwyss <tlwyss@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 When I asked the Omega Research ela dept. this question they
responded in just a few hours with the attached e-mail.
Rgds,    Terry

Dejan Corovic wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can TS4.0, during the alert, execute external program with a DOS
> like command line?
>
> For example I should like TS to runa wave file, instead just
> voicing 'ping' during the the alert.
>
> Regards
> Dejan Corovic


Subject: RE: sounds
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 14:02:15 -0500
From: EasyLang <EasyLang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'tlwyss'" <tlwyss@xxxxxxxxxxx>

981120JZ

Mr. Wyss,

Thank you for taking the time to send us your inquiry.

You can use the PlaySound function in EasyLanguage to play a wave file. The
name of the wave file will need to have the complete path specified within
quotation marks.

For Example:

IF Alert = TRUE THEN
        Condition1 = PlaySound("C:\Windows\chime.wav");

The PlaySound function must be assigned to a Condition.

Thank you for choosing Omega Research, Inc.

Julio Zayas
EasyLanguage Specialist
Omega Research, Inc.

                -----Original Message-----
                From:   tlwyss [mailto:tlwyss@xxxxxxxxxxx]
                Sent:   Friday, November 20, 1998 12:05 PM
                To:     EasyLang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
                Subject:        sounds

                 I
wonder
                if there is a simple way to make a wave file play, other
than
                Alert=True,
                when an indicator is tripped (when specific conditions are
met).
                I am aware that through default beep, I can make Alert play
any wave
                file
                I want, but all alerts play the same .wav and I would like
to make a

                particular indicator play a special wave file since it is by
far
                more important than the rest of the alerts that might be
tripped.

                    Thanks,   Terry

                P.S.  I have TradeStation 4.0 running on NT4.0.