Re: beep broken in 10.2?
Re: beep broken in 10.2?
- Subject: Re: beep broken in 10.2?
- From: "Arthur J. Knapp" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 09:36:16 -0400
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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:31:43 -0400
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Subject: Re: beep broken in 10.2?
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From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
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on 02-09-17 2:09 PM, Matt Riley at email@hidden wrote:
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> However, I just discovered yesterday that "beep" is broken under 10.2. At
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This was discussed when Mac OS X first arrived. The official explanation was
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that modern machines and the operating system are so fast that the two or
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three beeps -- asynchronous under Mac OS X, I guess -- are sounded
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simultaneously, so they come out sounding like a single beep. ...
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... The cure there, as in AppleScript, is to put individual beep
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commands in a repeat statement, or in line, with a short pause between them.
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"Delay 1" will do the job but may be too long a pause.
I'm not currently running under OS X, but here are some handlers that I
play with for achieving delays under a second:
on DelayHack(n)
repeat (n) times
"" & pi
end repeat
end DelayHack
on BeepN(n)
repeat (n) times
beep
repeat (3000) times
"" & pi
end repeat
end repeat
end BeepN
on BeepNM(n, m)
repeat (n) times
beep
repeat (m) times
"" & pi
end repeat
end repeat
end BeepNM
If you are in an office of "quiet people" like me, you will want to turn
your volumn down before running this:
BeepNM(3, 1000)
DelayHack(10000)
BeepNM(3, 2000)
DelayHack(10000)
BeepNM(3, 3000)
DelayHack(10000)
BeepNM(3, 4000)
DelayHack(10000)
BeepNM(3, 5000)
DelayHack(10000)
BeepNM(3, 10000)
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