Making my internal speaker beep

Ruby
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Hello. I’m trying to execute a beep on my computer with ruby as an
alert, but I can’t seem to get it to work.

I’ve looked online and I have this.

require “Win32API”
def beep
o = Win32API.new(“kernel32”,“Beep”,%w(i i) , ‘v’)
o.call(2000,50)
end

It seems to be calling the API exactly how I need, but it won’t execute
the beep. Any tips/ideas?

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt R. wrote:

Hello. I’m trying to execute a beep on my computer with ruby as an
alert, but I can’t seem to get it to work.

This works for me on Win2k

def beep
puts “\C-G”
puts “\C-G”
sleep(1)
puts “\C-G”
puts “\C-G”
end

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James B.

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Thanks for the quick response.

What is the C-G? Is there a way to change the frequency?

Thanks again :slight_smile:

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Matt R. wrote:

It seems to be calling the API exactly how I need, but it won’t execute
the beep. Any tips/ideas?

Thanks,
Matt

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print “\a”

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puts “\007”

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Quoting William J. [email protected]:

print “\a”

mnemonic: “a” is for audiable

-mental

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[email protected] wrote:

Quoting William J. [email protected]:

print “\a”

mnemonic: “a” is for audiable

-mental

Or perhaps for “alert”.
This also works in awk.