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Re: Playing Beep() through speakers

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From: tinyabs
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:06
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> Thanks, Bob.  What I should have mentioned, though, is that I would like 
> to use the 'duration' and 'frequency' parameters of Beep() so the user can 
> get an audio cue when entering data.  The system sounds from MessageBeep() 
> are too few in number to be useful in this case.

How about using a console instead of beep?

__fastcall TForm1::TForm1(TComponent* Owner)
   : TForm(Owner)
{
   AllocConsole();
}
void __fastcall TForm1::Button1Click(TObject *Sender)
{
   DWORD dwWrite;
   WriteConsole(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), "Hello world", 11, 
&dwWrite, NULL);
}
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