Until Tab chimes in I can confirm that alert & beep use the same sound file here.
W2K: C:WINNT\media\chord.wav Win98: C:WINDOWS\media\chord.wav Bertil Flink Creative Media ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Gross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 2:19 AM Subject: Re: <lingo-l> beep command > Hi Tab, > > Does your beep give you the same sound as your alert command? That might help me > figure out which of the Control Panel sounds the beep is using. > > (this machine is 5 miles from a paved road and it's pretty quiet, no beep at all) > > Tab Julius wrote: > > > Beep was originally a speaker beep, and at least on my machine on D8.5.1 it > > still is. It's almost a click from the built-in computer speaker, not the > > amplified wave sounds. Probably in a noisy office, you wouldn't even hear it. > > > > At 07:41 PM 3/12/03, Phil Gross wrote: > > >I just tried using the beep command on a Windows XP machine and it doesn't > > >work on either of my machines. I can try it in the Message window and > > >nothing happens. I don't remember ever testing on WinXP before, but I > > >don't think I done anything that should affect the system beep. > > > > > >Alert gives a beep, other sounds seem to work fine, just no beep from the > > >beep command. > > > > > >Any suggestions? > > > > > >If I remember right, D7 switched the beep from the "asterisk" sound to the > > >"default" sound. But there isn't a sound named default in my sound control > > >panel. Anyone know what sound the beep should be using on XP? > > > > > >Phil > > > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to > > http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL > > PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and > > helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to > http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL > PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping > with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
