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Asked: 2026-06-10T09:05:09+00:00

How would I play whichever sound the user has set for exclamation when I

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How would I play whichever sound the user has set for exclamation when I display JOptionPane.WARNING_MESSAGE or the error sound when I display JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE, for example?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Using the links MadProgrammer provided (reposted at the end) as a starting point, here’s what I figured out:

    import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

//retrieve the default sound from windows system sounds
//for another sound replace "default" accordingly
    final Runnable SOUND = (Runnable)Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getDesktopProperty
    ("win.sound.default");

    and then just before displaying the JOptionPane:

    if(SOUND != null)SOUND.run();

    NB Some sound events like Program Error cannot be accessed this way. A list of accessible sound events is available under the audio-feedback heading on the Windows Desktop Property Support page from Oracle

    While this will not work at all on a non-windows o/s, it will not, according to the blog, cause the program to crash on another o/s. I don’t have a JDK for my Linux partition yet, ergo I am currently unable to test this.

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