Hello Dave,

For sure, I don't want you to get in trouble because of playing Sweeper in a meeting... and I don't want to be fired either when playing your game in a boring meeting too!

So, here is a good way to figure out if the sound should be played or not, the trick is one more time to develop a quick PP applet.
So, please find in preview one of the sample PP applets package that I plan to release pretty soon.

The PP applet itself:

{
 SoundPref.pas
   'PP applet' for iziBasic
   Version 1.0ß1 - November 20, 2006
   by Laurent Duveau
     Web Site = http://www.aldweb.com


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What is SoundPref.pas?
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SoundPref.pas is a fully featured 'PP applet' for iziBasic which
is made to retrieve sound preferences from PalmOS system 
preferences. 
This applet can easily be extended to retrieve other system 
preferences, as all system preferences up to Palm OS version 5.3
are defined.

This 'PP applet' can be used as is in your iziBasic projects.
Please give a look to the SoundPref.ibas sample program source
code to see an example of how to access it.


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How to use SoundPref.pas?
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SYNTAX

output$ = CALLPP$(100,input$)
 input$ : "System" or "Game" or "Alarm"
 output$:  "0" if sound is Off
           "8" if sound is Low
          "32" if sound is Medium
          "64" if sound is High
          "-1" if error


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Parametrization and integration
in an iziBasic project
-------------------------------

Step #1: Replace the 'LDSP' CreatorID in the first line of the
         source code below to the CreatorID defined in your
         iziBasic source code (see CREATORID compiling directive)
         Also replace the 'SoundPref' label in the second line
         to the name of your application (the part of the iziBasic
         source code file name prior to the '.ibas' extension)

Step #2: Compile your iziBasic project

Step #3: Compile this 'PP applet'
}

{$code appl,LDSP,code,100}
program SoundPref;
type iBasFunType=function(S:string):string;
var iBasCallPP:iBasFunType;

type
 SystemPreferencesChoice=(
  prefVersion,
  prefCountry,
  prefDateFormat,
  prefLongDateFormat,
  prefWeekStartDay,
  prefTimeFormat,
  prefNumberFormat,
  prefAutoOffDuration,
  prefSysSoundLevelV20,
  prefGameSoundLevelV20,
  prefAlarmSoundLevelV20,
  prefHidePrivateRecordsV33,
  prefDeviceLocked,
  prefLocalSyncRequiresPassword,
  prefRemoteSyncRequiresPassword,
  prefSysBatteryKind,
  prefAllowEasterEggs,
  prefMinutesWestOfGMT,
  prefDaylightSavings,
  prefRonamaticChar,
  prefHard1CharAppCreator,
  prefHard2CharAppCreator,
  prefHard3CharAppCreator,
  prefHard4CharAppCreator,
  prefCalcCharAppCreator,
  prefHardCradleCharAppCreator,
  prefLauncherAppCreator,
  prefSysPrefFlags,
  prefHardCradle2CharAppCreator,
  prefAnimationLevel,
  prefSysSoundVolume,
  prefGameSoundVolume,
  prefAlarmSoundVolume,
  prefBeamReceive,
  prefCalibrateDigitizerAtReset,
  prefSystemKeyboardID,
  prefDefSerialPlugIn,
  // Additions for PalmOS 3.1:
  prefStayOnWhenPluggedIn,
    prefStayLitWhenPluggedIn,
  // Additions for PalmOS 3.2:
  prefAntennaCharAppCreator,
  // Additions for PalmOS 3.3:
  prefMeasurementSystem,
  // Additions for PalmOS 3.5:
  prefShowPrivateRecords,
  prefAutoOffDurationSecs,
  // Additions for PalmOS 4.0:
  prefTimeZone,
  prefDaylightSavingAdjustment,
  prefAutoLockType,
  prefAutoLockTime,
  prefAutoLockTimeFlag,    
  prefLanguage,
  prefLocale,
  prefTimeZoneCountry,
  prefAttentionFlags,
  prefDefaultAppCreator,
  // Additions for PalmOS 5.0:
  prefDefFepPlugInCreator,
  // Additions for PalmOS 5.1:
  prefColorThemeID,
  // Additions for PalmOS 5.3
  prefHandednessChoice,
  prefHWRCreator);


function  PrefGetPreference(whichPref:SystemPreferencesChoice):integer; inline($4E4F,$A2D1);
procedure StrIToA(var S:string;N:integer); inline($4E4F,$A0C9);

function IntToString(i:integer):string;
var
 sResult:string;
begin
 StrIToA(sResult,i);
 IntToString:=sResult;
end;

function CallPP(S:string):string;
var
 MySound:integer;
begin
 if S='System' then
  MySound:=PrefGetPreference(prefSysSoundVolume)
 else 
  if S='Game' then
   MySound:=PrefGetPreference(prefGameSoundVolume)
  else 
   if S='Alarm' then
    MySound:=PrefGetPreference(prefAlarmSoundVolume)
   else
    MySound:=-1; // error       
 CallPP:=IntToString(MySound);
end;

begin
 iBasCallPP:=CallPP;
end.