Re: XyWin sounds

[Robert Holmgren holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to note from "Bob Brody"  Fri, 17 Jan 1997 18:32:51 +0000

Bob, brief thoughts about your sound problem. I have sounds, lots of 'em,
so it works in principle. What you say (it's not your sound card, & it
ain't Windows' Control==>Sound settings) points to local XyWrite settings.
I doubt that EB has anything to do with it, since EB simply regulates the
frequency and duration of a single (speaker) tone. EP regulates events
unrelated to the triggers mentioned by the Windows' Sound property, so
that's out. EH only controls whether you get pop-up frames or not.

I suspect that somewhere in your system, probably in XWSTART.INT, or else
in a program that you are running, either wittingly or unwittingly you have
issued the command "ES 1" (Error_Suppression). You can go to the CMline
and manually counteract it, with "ES 0". Try that, and lemme know
whether it works.

It's a bad policy to set "ES 1", because it masks errors that you really
should know about. Much more prudent to just set the beep (using EB) so
brief and so high or low that it barely intrudes, than to kill the damn
thing entirely. Programs that turn it off, and fail to turn it back on
again, are irresponsible.


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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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