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| From | "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.basic.visual.misc |
| Subject | Re: The Beep Function. |
| Date | 2012-01-04 15:38 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <je1rp6$3s6$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <491f49f4-a678-4420-b0e4-935b398adc7b@a40g2000vbu.googlegroups.com> |
"Peter Nolan" <peter.nolan40@gmail.com> wrote in message news:491f49f4-a678-4420-b0e4-935b398adc7b@a40g2000vbu.googlegroups.com... > I have a Compaq Presario 5410UK running under Windows XP. > I wrote the simplest two line program [VB6] to play a note or tone > in the speakers that consisted of a Declare for the Beep function > and the one line: > Beep 200,5000 > The problem is I hear nothing in my speakers but when I sent the > program as an exe to my friend the program ran beautifully. His > two PC's were running under Windows 7 however. My advice is to forget about the Beep function and play a wav file through the system speakers instead. Beep attempts to play the sound using the motherboard's 8254 Programmable Timer chip, which is not guaranteed to be available on all machines, especially on modern machines. Micro$oft dropped support for the Beep function in Windows XP 64 bit and in Vista, although it will still play on many machines, but not always through the 8254 chip. As far as Windows 7 is concerned, the Beep function was rewritten by Micro$oft so that it ignores the 8254 chip and instead plays the requested beep as a wav file through the system speakers, which is why it worked on your friend's two Win7 machines, although on those machines it will have played as a wav file through the system speakers, and it would have sounded quite different (a lot smoother and at a loudness controlled by the user's settings) than it does through an 8254 chip. So, on some machines Beep will produce no sound at all and on others it will play through the 8254 chip and on others (most modern machines, especially those running Windows 7) it will play as a wav file through the system speakers. Anyway, my advice is to play a wav file instead. Mike
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