Checking Registry to play sounds?

OK. I'm designing a little chat program for fun and for the heck of it. It has sounds that you can play, as well as an options form. If you click on the "Sounds On!" options and then my "Apply" command then it will set a registry key named "Sounds" with a value of "1", or if you do "Sounds Off!" then it will set that key to "0". Now here's my dillemma:

When you click on one of the Sound commands, for instance the slap one, it has an If Then statement. I want it to check that if the registry key named "Sounds" has a value of "1" then go ahead and play the sound...if it's not "1" then don't do anything. Right now my code looks something like this...

cmdSlap
If GetSetting("PChat", _
"Options", "Sounds") = 1 Then
playsound = sndPlaySound("sounds\slap.wav", 1)
End If
End Sub

There is more code in there but it's irrelevant. Just one to set focus to the message box after it's done...and that's after the End If. Now I know that the

If GetSetting("PChat", _
"Options", "Sounds") = 1 Then
blah blah blah
End If

works, becuase in my options form it accesses the registry and finds out what the values are so your options are saved and you do not have to reapply them. Like...

Private Sub Form_Load()
If GetSetting("PChat", _
"Options", "Sounds") = 1 Then
Option1 = True
Else
Option2 = True
End If
If GetSetting("PChat", _
"Options", "WebAllow") = 1 Then
Check1.Value = 1
Else
Check1.Value = 0
End If
End Sub

That's in my options form...and it does work. So why won't it work for the sounds and play my sound when I want it to, lol. I made sure by going into regedit and made sure that the Key was set to "1". I just don't get it. Well, can anyone shed some light on this?

Oh yeah and to play my sounds here's the code at the top...

Private Declare Function mciSendString Lib "winmm.dll" Alias _
"mciSendStringA" (ByVal lpstrCommand As String, ByVal _
lpstrReturnString As Any, ByVal uReturnLength As Long, ByVal _
hwndCallback As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function sndPlaySound Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "sndPlaySoundA" (ByVal lpszSoundName As String, ByVal uFlags As Long) As Long

I don't get it! lol

Snadman
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Is the registry value a string? If so you need to do a string comparison instead of a numeric comparison e.g.

Code:

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If GetSetting("PChat", _
"Options", "Sounds") = "1" Then...

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