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Re: Beep or playing a sound [Attn: CGF]
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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