Stop Sound Now! (Resolved)

Im using the following, which I got here, to play sound:

VB Code:

Private Declare Function sndPlaySound Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "sndPlaySoundA" _
    (ByVal lpszSoundName As String, ByVal uFlags As Long) As Long
    
Private Const SND_ASYNC = &H1
Private Const SND_NODEFAULT = &H2
 
sndPlaySound "C:\Temp.wav", SND_ASYNC Or SND_NODEFAULT

my question is simple.. how do you stop the sound once it has started. Surprising that no one included this in many of the posts I have looked for here regarding this...

thanks
sac

I think I read somewhere that you just run the same code again, but with no filename:

sndPlaySound "", SND_ASYNC Or SND_NODEFAULT

no luck with that :(

I've just checked in the API guide, it says you need to set the first parameter to NULL, eg:

sndPlaySound vbNull, SND_ASYNC Or SND_NODEFAULT

hmm makes sense but isn't working, damn it

Setting the filename to null to stop the sound will only work if the sound is being looped, ie, with the SND_LOOP flag.

VB Code:

'start
sndPlaySound "C:\Temp.wav", SND_ASYNC Or SND_NODEFAULT Or SND_LOOP
 
'stop
sndPlaySound vbNullString, SND_ASYNC Or SND_NODEFAULT

ahh thanks - works :)