Honk

Plays one or more of the Standard Windows sounds, triggered

purely from the command line.

use:

honk

- Plays the default system sound.

honk SystemStart SystemHand SystemQuestion

- Plays the given list of standard system sounds (usually just one).

- they are case-insensitive (you can get the case wrong and it will still work).

Possible sound names are listed in the registry under:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/AppEvents/EventLabels.

e.g.

ActivatingDocument

AppGPFFault

BuildComplete

BuildError

BuildWarning

ClipMate5_EmptyClipboard

ClipMate5_Glue

ClipMate5_IgnoreClipboardUpdate

ClipMate5_NewData

ClipMate5_PowerPasteComplete

Close

CriticalBatteryAlarm

EmptyRecycleBin

Incoming-Fax

LowBatteryAlarm

MailBeep

Maximize

MenuCommand

MenuPopup

Minimize

MoveMenuItem

Navigating

Open

Outgoing-Fax

RestoreDown

RestoreUp

RingIn

RingOut

ShowBand

SystemAsterisk

SystemDefault

SystemExclamation

SystemExit

SystemHand

SystemQuestion

SystemStart

SystemWelcome

...

You can view the list with regedit. Not all of them are necessarily

hooked up to real sounds and not all of them will be in your registry.

What sounds they play depends on how they are configured in the control panel.

If you were daring you could even add your own and configure them.

These are NOT the same as the names in the control panel or the names

of the *.wav files.

Or you can specify a wav file e.g.

honk C:\Windows\Media\tada.wav

Honk is much faster than using mplayer or player. Nothing appears on the

screen. It will not hang up if several copies try to play at once.

C++ source included.