bell() trick :)

[Elliott Chapin]

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Elliott Chapin         http:// www3.sympatico.ca/echapin
"John W. Baxter" <jwbaxter at olympus.net> wrote in message
news:250420011013419089%jwbaxter at olympus.net...
> In article <FmCF6.637769$f36.18383627 at news20.bellglobal.com>, Elliott
> Chapin <echapin at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> > I had asked about a way to get the functionality of bell() outside its
> > normal context. Although I'm not running any dialogs (yet) in my current
> > (really first) project, I just verified that I can borrow it from a Pmw
> > EntryField. Suggestions like "print chr(7)" don't work.
>
> print "\a"  sounds the "bell" here.  (But I'm unfamiliar with bell(),

I wanted the sound and get it - just not this way. I don't know whether it's
because of my particular system or the W98 environment, but I needed the
trick I described.

> so I don't know if that is exactly what you want.



>
>   --John (whose "bell" is actually a bell-like sound at the moment)