beep again

Bill Wilkinson bwilk_97 at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 25 07:30:27 EST 2001


| [Mark Hammond, on the great non-beeping beep mystery]
| > We learn something new every day :-)

| > I just had a look at the MS documentation for this function [Win32
| > Beep()], and it states at the bottom:
| > """
| > Remarks
| > Windows 95: The Beep function ignores the dwFreq and dwDuration
| > parameters. On computers with a sound card, the function plays the
| > default sound event. On computers without a sound card, the function
| > plays the standard system beep.
| > """
| >
| > Not much we can do about it that I can see, except possibly add a note
| > to the docstring.

On my Win2k box (With a sound card) I get the system beeps and not the wave
files.





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