Play an alert sound

[emerys]

I setup a page with a refresh every 30 seconds. Any new records are highlighted
with a red colored back ground. But the users would still like the page to play
a sound if there are any new records when the page refreshes - similar to what
Outlook can do. Each record has a date/time stamp of when it was entered. And I
have user session data of when then last interacted with the page (by pushing a
button); this is how I know which ones are the new records. I have seen a few
examples for playing a sound on MouseOver, but this is a user initiated event
not a data driven event. I tried to adapt it, but it just didn't work out. Does
anyone else have any experience with something like this? Thanks for your help,
Scott

[byron1021]

Look at embedding a .wav file. We do this in one of our monitoring applications. I think it's doing it via <embed>.

[emerys]

Byron, Thanks, I am already using an <embed>, and I tested by calling it
from a MouseOver event in the table. So I can call it from a user type event,
but how do I trigger the alert sound from a page or data event? Would PageLoad
be a better place for this? Thanks again, Scott.

[MrDippy]

How are you determining if it is a new record? Is there a date field? What you
can do is loop through your record set and when you hit a new record then
print out the embed tag with the wav file so it would be like this <CFOUTPUT
query='blah'> #blah.record1# <CFIF blah.date is now()> <embed> </CFIF>
</CFOUTPUT>