Alert and Playsound problems

Hello,

I can't find the original thread where this was discussed, so I apologize if this has already been answered.

It's about the problem to have at the same time an Alert and a Playsound command in either an indicator or EA. If both are together, only the Alert would sound (as it is interpreted as simultaneous and both sounds won't play).

I got the answer to solve this on MQL4 codebase board so here it is:


Alert();
Sleep(500); // waiting a half second
PlaySound();
SendMail();

Regards
Caroline

Caroline,

You probably read this in the "Using sounds in MT4" thread.

http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=13296

At the time I was experimenting with Alerts, PlaySound, and text-to-speech. Because I was working with an indicator I did not consider using Sleep(). It can only be used in an EA. It can not be used in an indicator because the indicator processing thread can not be interrupted. The particular indicator reguired visual placement so I did not consider an EA. Using Sleep() in an EA to solve the conflict problem does appear to be a solution to multiple sounds. I had not considered this. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

hap