Playing .WAV files from Citect

After fighting with playing .WAV files from Citect, I am still having a bit of an issue.

Using Windows Media player, it seems that it attempts to connect to the internet, even though I have turned off everything in the settings except for associating the music files with .WAV files.  This gives a blue rotating circle and a program running indication in the Task bar.  We have had this happen to the point where the Citect program becomes unresponsive until the operations are finished.

The systems I work on do not have internet connections, so this must be due to retrying and eventually failing.

Question here is if anybody has used another lightweight program that just plays the file without the overhead?

I am assuming that Windows Media Player does not give the ability to turn these things off, but maybe I have missed them.

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  • DspPlaySound() worked OK - we got the sound in the end.
    This is a hangover from the Deployment Manager Custom Files issue. All we wanted to do was beep when an alarm came on. Locating the file seemed to be a big issue, but it is solved. A bit of code required to get the error from it, but nothing we haven't done before.
    After looking through the knowledgebase, I couldn't find much on the PlaySound function for Citect - certainly not the information you replied to Ashley with. Although I am not running R2, the file is still in there. The Wonderware version seems to use the 2nd argument for timing/asynchronous operation. That would be a nice option for citect, too.

    Mike
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  • DspPlaySound() worked OK - we got the sound in the end.
    This is a hangover from the Deployment Manager Custom Files issue. All we wanted to do was beep when an alarm came on. Locating the file seemed to be a big issue, but it is solved. A bit of code required to get the error from it, but nothing we haven't done before.
    After looking through the knowledgebase, I couldn't find much on the PlaySound function for Citect - certainly not the information you replied to Ashley with. Although I am not running R2, the file is still in there. The Wonderware version seems to use the 2nd argument for timing/asynchronous operation. That would be a nice option for citect, too.

    Mike
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