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In article <19388@mimsy.UUCP> folta@tove.umd.edu.UUCP (Wayne Folta) writes:
>I suggest that SysBeep (I think this is the proper routine's name) should take
>an argument:
>
>   BEEP_USER_ERROR        The action a user has attempted is an error
>   BEEP_SYS_ERROR         An error has occurred in doing what the user requested
>   BEEP_ATTENTION         The user's attention is required
>   BEEP_SUCCESS           A long-running operation has successfully completed
>   etc.

[examples of how this would work deleted]

It would be nice to have a feature like this in MacMoney.

When you do a "Reconcile Account" in MacMoney, you get a beep a split
second before the dialog appears that either tells you,
"Congratulations! You and the bank agree." or "Your balance is greater
[less] than the bank's by ______ ... "

Every time I hear that silly beep, my heart stops.  I tend to associate
a beep with something wrong.  And I can think of many things I'd rather
do than go through my statement item by item to figure out what's wrong.

I think it would be great if MacMoney would give different sounds -- one
to indicate success and one to indicate that something is wrong.  They
wouldn't need to be cute*, just different, and able to communicate the
idea of sucess or failure.

* In fact, I get tired of cute sounds REALLY quickly!

-- 
Geoff Allen - WINCO Computer Process Engineering
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Disclaimer:  WINCO doesn't believe in Macs, so of course these are my views.