FP 2.6 application beeping 4

[hunt2121]

I have an FP 2.6 application written long ago by someone else. My users report it has started beeping at them as they move around the forms. Is there a way to turn off the beeping? I have seen in USENET solutions for inclusion in the code, but I can't change that at this point, can I?

Thanks.

Sam

 

[rgbean]

Sam,
Where are they running this app? I DOS, under Win 3.x, Win 9x or NT/2000/XP/2003?

I've heard "beeping" when the keyboard buffer was overflowing - this was usually due to a stuck key.

It may also be due to SET CONFIRM ON. Any chance that CONFIRM=OFF was in a CONFIG.FP file that's gotten "lost"?

Rick

 

[DSummZZZ]

You ay also need to add:
SET BELL OFF
in the CONFIG.FP file.


-Dave Summers-

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[hunt2121]

The setting in the CONFIG.FPW file was

confirm=on

I changed that to off and added the SET BELL OFF statement.

I'll let you know what my users report.

Thanks.

Sam

 

[bobmpalmer]

Hmm, It was the thing to do and I have to admit to being guilty of this to add copious doses of "?? CHR(7)" into code in the late eighties SET BELL OFF will only work in the config file if the programmer did'nt add the SET BELL ON in the main.prg which I'm afraid many of us did!

Bob Palmer

http://www.resisystems.co.uk

The most common solution is H2O!

 

[rob444]

Adding SET BELL OFF in the config.fp(w) is incorrect.
That should be:
BELL = OFF

Rob.

 

[DSummZZZ]

rob444,

Thanks for the correction.
I was thinking of the program statement but that is the proper syntax for the config file.

Gee whiz.


-Dave Summers-

Even more Fox stuff at:

http://www.davesummers.net/foxprolinks.htm

 

[hunt2121]

Thanks to all of you for your help! The confirm=off and bell=off statements in the config.fpw file seem to have done the trick. My users are reporting that the annoying beeps while moving from field to field are gone.