On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 11:44 AM Eryk Sun <eryk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 8/16/21, Roel Schroeven <r...@roelschroeven.net> wrote: > > > > We're not necessarily talking about the PC speaker here: (almost) all > > computers these days have sound cards (mostly integrated on the > > motherboard) that are much more capable than those one-bit PC speakers. > > Yes, the PC speaker beep does not get used in Windows 7+. The beep > device object is retained for compatibility, but it redirects the > request to a task in the user's session (which could be a remote > desktop session) that generates a WAV buffer in memory and plays it > via PlaySound().
That seems a bizarre way to handle it. What happens if you have multiple sound cards? Or if a program needs to get the user's attention despite headphones being connected to the sound card? That's what the PC speaker is for, and I would be quite surprised if Windows just says "nahh that doesn't matter". ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
