Sound Alerts not Firing

[johnMoss]

Hi There,

Problem: Sound Alerts built into indicator are not playing when conditional is met.

With the release of NT 8.0.27.1, I am of course aware that X86 has been moved over to Program Files. In the indicator, my current path is:

PlaySound(NinjaTrader.Core.Globals.InstallDir + @"\sounds\MomentumAlert.wav");

Prior to the update, everything was fine. Now they no longer work. I do note that the X86 file is still there, and also that the entire file was copies and moved over. Is there something I need to update in the above line of code?

Specifically the relevant construct is:

{
Draw.ArrowUp(this, "EntryPoint"+CurrentBar, false, 0, Low [0] - (TickDistance * TickSize), Brushes.Yellow); Alert[0] = 7; // yellow up

if (soundAlert == true)

PlaySound(NinjaTrader.Core.Globals.InstallDir + @"\sounds\MomentumAlert.wav");
}

Thanx
JM

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hello, thanks for writing in. Please first check the Log tab of the Control Center for any errors. You can also test if the line of code is getting hit by placing a Print method right above it, just to see if the code is being hit but no sound is being produced. If that is the case, there must be an issue with the path to the installation. You can also print this out to confirm it is correct.

[B]{
Draw.ArrowUp(this, "EntryPoint"+CurrentBar, false, 0, Low [0] - (TickDistance * TickSize), Brushes.Yellow); Alert[0] = 7; // yellow up

Print("NinjaTrader install directory: " + NinjaTrader.Core.Globals.InstallDir);
if (soundAlert == true)
{
    Print("Playing sound alert");
    PlaySound(NinjaTrader.Core.Globals.InstallDir + @"\sounds\MomentumAlert.wav");
}


}[/B]​
​

[johnMoss]

Duh ... My Bad. Check the Log File...

I'm being an idiot. The system did warn on the update install that you may have to move some files. I did go looking for that note again but didn't find it in the release notes. Built-In sound files were installed but not after-markets, i.e. anything I made and put in the sound file. Thanx, all good.
JM