Bill Marriott wrote: "I don't know if this has been answered (the thread diverged into political discourse), but in Rev 2.9 and later your script will give the expected results (at least on Windows) if you say,
set the beepsound to internal set the beepPitch to 220 beep set the beepPitch to 440 beep This is because the beep command was changed to use the system alert by default, and not the internal PC buzzer, which can do some interesting things." 1. There is no "at least" about it; the Documentation in 2.9 states that beepSound is only relevant to Windows. On none of my Macintosh computers that are regularly used in my household (4) can I raise a squeak from BEEP; nor from the 5 PCs running Ubuntu variants. As I do not have the chance to try out a version of RR post 2.9 on Windows I really don't know how effective this would be: and, to be frank, I really don't care very much as it does not offer a cross-platform solution to my initial problem. 2. "political discourse"; Um! The hard fact is that Scott Rainey took a decision a long time ago that is still having an effect - the why and the wherefores of 'political' decisions (or, maybe, considerations concerning time and money) often do not take into account all the possible consequences. 3. "diverged": no it didn't really: the "political discourse" was right ON TOPIC. My initial posting, quite unwittingly, stirred up a hornet's nest; however, had there been no hornet's nest to be stirred up that would not have happened: it would have been another "Oh, there goes Richmond with his daft ideas"! As I have never met Scott Rainey, and do not really understand the business side of software very well, I cannot comment on the obvious rancour displayed by some contributors to this list about his reasons for his decision. What I can do is express a socking great "WHAT A SILLY OVERSIGHT" comment; and a "HOW ABOUT MAKING GOOD THAT SILLY OVERSIGHT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE" remark. As I will be attending the Edinburgh conference in September, and, as far as I understand, be in line for the post-conf. version of RR; I am, possibly, naively, hoping that that version; as well as having some "jazzy, new" capabilities, will, also, have a "corny, old" capability, let us say, 'restored'. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. ____________________________________________________________ A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
