Access to PC-Speaker from Flexsim

Hi Everybody,

i'm running a model with verly long Scenarios with the Experimenter. At the end of each Scenario the user hast to manually export some data. In addition to a message window I want to notify the user with a beep each time a replication ends. Is there a way to access the PC-Speaker via Flexsim to get that beep? I thought maybe becaus it is based on C++ this would be possible.

Thanks in advance

Eike Schulz

look into the commands: soundplay and soundplayfile
With those commands you can play .wav files (your system sound are also wav files I think)

I thought there was also something like a beep but can't find it so maybe I mixed it up with C++

I would recommend creating a user event that is set to occurs shortly before a replication ends. In the command, I would use the command:

soundplayfile()

This will play a sound directly from a file. But it needs to be attached to a window. To attach it to the window, right click on your 3D View. Select View -> Designate This View (sv).

The parameters that go into the command with a brief description are listed below are:

obj view - This is your designate view. [sv()]
str path+filename - This is just your path for the sound you want to have played. This also needs to be in quotes. ["C:/My Sounds/APPLAUSE.WAV"]
num volume - This is a number between 0 and 1.
num tempo - This is a number between 0 and 1.
num repeat - If you want it to repeat put a 1. If not, put 0.
num balance - This is a number between 0 and 1.

Below is an example of a properly constructed soundplayfile() command.

soundplayfile(sv(),"C:/My Sounds/APPLAUSE.WAV",1,1,0,.5);

This same information can be found in the User Manual.

Or you can of course use the Beep() command if you toggle your code as C++ and compile your model.

Beep(<freqHz>,<duration_milliseconds>)