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Violet Giraffe
Violet Giraffe

Reputation: 33599

Playing specific system sound with Qt

I want my application to emit a standard notification sound, the one that's called "Default Beep" on Windows. I don't see a way of referencing system sounds with QSound. QSound instance with no sound assigned used to play this sound, but it's fixed in Qt 5. Any way to do it?

It's OK if the solution only works on Windows (but I want it to compile on any supported OS and don't want to use #ifdef and Win API).

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2438

Answers (1)

benjarobin
benjarobin

Reputation: 4488

Use Phonon ( http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/phonon-overview.html ), a Qt library, which is able to play sound / video, ...

For the path of the file, you should use environment variable for the WINDOWS directory, and then hard code the end of the path of the sound file

But : I am thinking that it may not a good idea, since the system sound can be personalized... To get the PATH of the personalized sound you need to read the windows registry...

Edit : You could use the QSettings class to be able to read the Windows registry For example something like :

QSettings settings("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\AppEvents\\Schemes\Apps\\.Defaults\\..TODO..", QSettings::NativeFormat);

Upvotes: 1

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