Playing sound in HTA across network share

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screwloosedan
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Playing sound in HTA across network share

Post by screwloosedan »

I accidentally posted this same question in the wrong section yesterday...sorry for cross posting (and the other section doesn't allow me to move or otherwise modify).

I have a need to play a sound from within an HTA. To keep it simple
and so multiple users can use it I would like to 1 - Use a default
windows sound and 2) Be able to run the HTA from a network share.

This
seemed simple enough, but it doesn't appear to work. A possible work
around includes putting a sound file on the network share, but I wanted
to reduce the chances of someone messing this up.

When running this across a network share I receive no error, but also no sound. If I run this locally, it works as expected (plays sound).

Here's sample code of what I'm trying to do (obviously the real HTA is a bit more involved):

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<html> 
<title>My HTA</title> 
<HTA:APPLICATION  
     ID="objMyHTA"  
     APPLICATIONNAME="MyHTA" 
     SCROLL="yes" 
     SINGLEINSTANCE="yes" 
     WINDOWSTATE="normal" 
> 
 
<!-- ************************* --> 
 
<head> 
<script language="vbscript"> 
 
Sub Window_OnLoad 
    strHtml="<embed src=" & chr(34) & "C:WindowsMediaWindows Ringin.wav" & chr(34) &" autostart=true width=0 height=0 id=" & chr(34) & "alarmsound" & chr(34) & "playcount=" & chr(34) & "10" & chr(34) & " HIDDEN="& chr(34) &"true" & chr(34) & ">" 
    strhtml=strHtml & " 
Message!  You should hear an alarm." 
    error.InnerHTML=strHtml 
End Sub 
 
</script> 
</head> 
 
<!-- ************************* --> 
 
<body> 
    <span id="error">&nbsp;</span> 
</body>
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screwloosedan
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Playing sound in HTA across network share

Post by screwloosedan »

jvierra - Thanks for the reply and help. Your solution is working much better for me.As a side note "C:WindowsMediaRingin.wav" does not exist on my Vista Enterprise (SP1 32b) build nor my Win 7 Home Premium (64b). "C:WindowsMediaWindows Ringin.wav" does exist on both.
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