Accessing Windows System sounds

[dwhalen]

I was wondering if anybody knew how to access the system sounds of the user through javascript (or html). Or am I going to have to just embed my own sound and play it. (I want to make a sound trigger on the submit so the user knows that the form is processing)

Thanks

 

[Sleidia]

Hello,

The best solution I know to trigger sounds
is to make a small flash file (eg: 10px/10px) with
the same backgroud as your body (or windowless)
and to insert one mp3 file (smaller than .wav!) on each layer in flash.
Then, you can trigger each sound with javascript events holders.

Won't work on IE5 Mac, but won't produce javascript errors in any case.
Ask me if you need the code.

Have a good day.

 

[dwhalen]

Thanks for your reply. I decided to just use an embeded sound file (.wav) and use the play() method of the sound. But I have been thinking about trying to do some things with javascript and flash but I didn't know you could do it! Could you send me just a little snippet of that code, just in case I want to mix some javascript with my flash? What about ActionScript and javascript? Can you access ActionScript through javascript and vice versa? Thanks

Later