How can I disable all of the sounds in my application?  I want users
to be able to turn sounds on and off only in the game I am working on
without affecting other applications or events.

You lost me.  You want the sound from other applications to still occur 
while your application is running, but you just want that application not to 
make any noise?  Just do it.  If checkbox checked for no sound, don't make 
any sound calls.  It's got to be deeper than that, but you're going to have 
to give more details...

Paul T.

"Ben"  wrote in message 
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> How can I disable all of the sounds in my application?  I want users
> to be able to turn sounds on and off only in the game I am working on
> without affecting other applications or events.
> 

My menus make default clicking sounds when I use them.

Also, there are "screen tap" sounds, but I don't care as much about
those.

You'd have to turn those off, along with the rest of the OS use of them, 
while you are in front, and then turn them back on when you are brought to 
the front again.  You can't prevent screen clicks, which are handled inside 
the OS long before it even cares what application was clicked, if any, from 
happening in just your application.  If you don't want to do that at a 
granular level, just set the volume to 0 when you start and set it back to 
its original level when some other application pops up or when you exit.  Of 
course, the user can always manually turn the sounds back up, but it's 
usually a bad idea to undo what he wants to do.  If you're worried about 
that, you'll have to turn off the sounds for those operations (and hope he 
doesn't manually go turn them back on again, of course).

Paul T.

"Ben"  wrote in message 
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> My menus make default clicking sounds when I use them.
>
> Also, there are "screen tap" sounds, but I don't care as much about
> those.
> 

I'm not playing any sounds anywhere in my code.  They are default
device sounds that are playing.

OK.  Thanks.  I was worried that that was the case.  I don't want my
game to mess with the system sounds or sound levels.  I'll just let
them use the device's sound settings to do whatever they want.  Thanks
for the info.