On 22-05-2014, at 11:44 AM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> It's because there's a System beep somewhere in there and I was just
> interjecting the question-- why the heck do we have System beep(s)
> embedded in the system?

For some reason the halt causes a beep. And for some reason the beep wants to put up a menu to choose which beep supporting class you want to use. That doesn’t seem like a good idea to me. And I see the lowspace watcher uses beep too, which is an even worse place to be opening menus and asking the user to choose their favourite sound maker class.

Perhaps worse, you can’t do a cmd-. while them menu is open in order to try to debug this. 

It’s something to do with SoundService default etc. Looks like the default was nil and thus #askForDefault is used. Perhaps it got nilled during some cleanup or install ?


tim
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