Opening Bell Program

July 26th, 2010, 06:43 PM

Hi
does anybody know what would be the code just to sound a wave file at a specified time?

I have this wav file that I would like to play when the market opens.

thanks
Spencer

July 27th, 2010, 07:00 AM

Hi Spencer,

This is JUST a guess so please don't send me hate mail if it doesn't work, but I'd give this a try:

Code

                            
protected override void OnBarUpdate()
if(ToTime(Time[0]) == 093000)
     {
     PlaySound(@"C:\your file path here")
     }

If it does work and you want an opening and closing bell sound, try this:

Code

                            
protected override void OnBarUpdate()
if(ToTime(Time[0]) == 093000 || ToTime(Time[0]) == 160000)
     {
     PlaySound(@"C:\your file path here")
     }

Good luck,
Dave

July 27th, 2010, 07:17 AM

That might be something you want to do outside Ninja to keep it out of the Ninja thread and memory pool. You could do it in Outlook or many of the third-party Windows alarm clock programs, for example.

If you like the ATT Text to Speech voices you can do countdowns to open/close of different markets.

AT&T Labs Natural Voices Text-to-Speech Demo

July 28th, 2010, 04:42 PM

wow Max, I never even thought of that. great idea. is it hard to do for outlook? does it requre code?

thanks

July 28th, 2010, 04:42 PM

thank you for the code:-)

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