Alert in strategy - No sound playing

[qewcool]

Hi

I put an alert in my strategy with the Alert() function to give me an alert when the strategy go long or go short or exit a position.

Everything is working except I do not get the sound in alert1.wav played.
The alert is showing up in the alert output window. I can hear the "order pending" + "order accepted" + "order filled" that is default with NT.

And I see the orders being executed on the main control window and in the log tab.

The only thing not working is playing the sound from the alert wave file.
When I double click on the actual wave file in the NT /sounds folder, it is loaded into Window media player and plays properly.

Can anyone point to the possible problem or have seen this before ?

Thanks in advance.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

qewcool, any errrors you spot in the log tab of the Control Center?

Would you mind posting the code of your Alert() call here?

Thanks

[qewcool]

Hi

I dont see any errors in the log tab.

I only have the order/position/execution category confirmation message which are not errors.

an error would show up in the log tab in the category column as "error" ? or categorized as something else ?

the code is :

Alert("LEalert", NinjaTrader.Cbi.Priority.High, "LEalert", "Alert1.wav", 10, Color.Black, Color.Yellow);

Thanks for your help

[mrlogik]

ge,

Just a thought.

Put some Print() statement directly above where the Alerts are in your code, and keep the output window open just to ensure the Alert() function is being called.

[qewcool]

I know the alert is being called because the alert message is being written in the alert output window.

So visually I do see the alert. its only the sound that is not playing.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Hmm, the code looks fine to me, you might need to give a fresh .NET a try here.

[mrlogik]

Okay,

I would add

if(!Historical)
  PlaySound("Alert1.wav");

to verify NT is able to play sounds properly on your machine.

[qewcool]

how do you reinstall .net ?

just to make sure I dont mess everything up.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Just send me a note to support at ninjatrader dot com Attn Bertrand and mention this thread, I'll take care then, thanks.

[qewcool]

tested with the playsound() function and it is working

using this code :
if(!Historical)
PlaySound("Alert1.wav");


so why is the Alert() function not working ? are they basically the same as far as the sound part ?

do I still need to try to reinstall .net ?

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

If you are placing the Alert at the same time it is going to be playing sounds like Order Accepted, etc. you may or may not hear the alert sound as they overlap and will only play one.

[qewcool]

Ok I will try to put playsound() at the same time as the Alert() see if it changes anything.

As to the format of the sound file, can one play an mp3 file instead of a wav file ? I want to try putting in a longer sound file to see if it changes anything.

As an option can one disable the "order accepted" / "order filled" sound cues in order to force NT to play the alarm sound that we choose instead and not allow it to choose between which sound to play ?

Also anyway to specify the volume at which NT play its sounds ?

[mrlogik]

Yes, you can disable the other sounds.

Tools->Options->General tab.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Thanks mrlogik - it would need to be a .wav qewcool and unfortunately can't change the volume for the NT sounds directly - some sound card driver allow to adjust the volume per program externally though.

[qewcool]

Thanks to all for the help
Ill try to experiment further within these parameters.