Andreas Raab wrote:

> Jimmie,
> 
> That's an interesting problem. On Windows, #beep is asynchronous,
> meaning that you're starting the same sound at (almost) exactly the same
> time which is why you don't hear them separately. You could check what
> the following does on the Mac vs. Windows:
> 
> 	[10 timesRepeat:[Smalltalk beep]] timeToRun.
> 
> On my machine (XP) it returns after 10 milliseconds. BTW, there's a good
> reason for this behavior - you can have any "beep" sound you want and so
> waiting for the beep to be played would waste a lot of time during which
> we could do a lot of useful processing. The following, however, should
> work no matter where you are:


On my PC at work PII 266, WinME it returns a 2. I guess that's 2 
milliseconds?
On my rev. B iMac (G3 233mhz) it returns 1745.
But it does what I naively expect.

Tremendous difference.


> 	10 timesRepeat:[
> 		Smalltalk beep.
> 		(Delay forSeconds: 1) wait.
> 	].
> 
> Since it will wait for a second inbetween the beeps you will hear them
> all (it's just gonna take ten seconds ;-)


Yes.

Thanks,

Jimmie Houchin

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