On 24/03/13 03:42, Bod Soutar wrote:
On Mar 23, 2013 2:24 AM, "Steven D'Aprano" <st...@pearwood.info
<mailto:st...@pearwood.info>> wrote:
>
> On 23/03/13 12:48, Phil wrote:
>>
>> Just out of curiosity how can a beep sound be generated?
>>
>> My interest in this came about because echo -e '\a' no longer works.
Also print '\a' doesn't work, presumably for the same reason. The
following is also mute:
>>
>> import Tkinter
>> Tkinter.Tk().bell()
>>
>> Print '\a', under Idle, causes a bell icon to be displayed so it
seems that the lack of a beep is due to a system setting.
>
>
>
> Would you like us to guess what system you are running? Linux, Mac
OS, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Android, something else? My guess is...
Windows XP. Am I close?
>
I'm gonna guess Ubuntu, in which case the system beep is probably
disabled system wide. Google "ubuntu enable disable system beep"
Thank you for your reply Bodsda,
Actually, I didn't think there was any need to make any guesses since
"echo -e" is exclusively a Linux command. Anyway, I had already spent
some time searching for an answerer and the answer given most often was
to "modprobe pcspkr". This didn't lead to a working beep.
As I said previously, I'm was only curious and it's of little
importance. There are many methods, some more complex than others, to
play sound files. I found that the pygame library is the easiest to use.
Thank you again for taking the time to answer.
--
Regards,
Phil
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