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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 22:49:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Beep or playing a sound [Attn: CGF]
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On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 09:52:12PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Edwin Goei wrote:
> >>Is there a program that will beep or make a sound in cygwin?  In bash,
> >>I've tried "echo -e \\a" and I get a control-G char but no sound.  Is
> >>there a program that will play a sound file that comes w/ cygwin?  I
> >>run xemacs which does produce sounds but I'm looking for a simpler way.
> >
> >The ^G character will work in an xterm or rxvt running under X11.
> >
> >It also used to work in the Cygwin console, but apparently doesn't
> >anymore...
>
> echo "^G"
>
> where ^G is the literal "control g" character works fine for me.  ^G
> uses the Windows MessageBeep call so if that isn't working then there
> are undoubtedly other things wrong with your system.  Either that or you
> have sound muted.
>
> cgf

MessageBeep in general does not work on my system (even from a non-Cygwin
program).  There used to be a "DefaultBeep" event in Windows that had a
sound associated with it -- that was the sound that MessageBeep used.
I don't know why there is no such event now, but there isn't.  I did have
to install a service pack and some hotfixes recently, so I suspect they
had removed this somehow.  In any case, the sound is not muted, and the
Beep() call works.

I did not say the MessageBeep approach was wrong for everyone, I just said
it doesn't work on some systems.  Apparently it does in yours.  I'll
investigate...
	Igor
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