My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

[Randy Hengst]

Hello Richmond,

I haven't followed every email of this strand, but after a quick  
check I didn't see this mentioned. I apologize if I missed it or am  
just stating the obvious.

If I understand what you said (see below...), you don't hear beep on  
your Macs at all in Rev....

I use 2.8.1 most of the time, but also have 2.9 and 3.0 on OSX4.11.   
I use beep regularly without problems. Just for "fun" I played with  
beeploudness -- which as noted in the comments of the 2.8.1  
documentation "has no effect on Mac OS"  -- or, for that matter OSX.

Well, the effect it had for me was to stop the beep from sounding. If  
I type "beep" into the mouseUp handler of a button, I hear a "beep"  
when I click the button. However, once I include set the beepLoudness  
to 50 (or any number 1-100) followed by beep -- as you noted in an  
earlier example,  I hear nothing.... even when I remove set the  
beepLoudness from the script.

When I set the beepLoudness to -1 as noted in the comments, all is  
well again with beep.

Comments:
Set the beepLoudness to -1 to use the default system setting.

The beepLoudness has no effect on Mac OS or Windows systems, and on  
some Unix systems which don't allow changing the beep loudness.

take care,
randy
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On Mar 12, 2009, at 6:45 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:

> On none of my Macintosh computers that are regularly used in my
> household (4) can I raise a squeak from BEEP; nor from the 5 PCs
> running Ubuntu variants.