BEEP

The BEEP statement produces a beep sound through the sound card.

Syntax

BEEP

Description

• The BEEP statement can be used anywhere in the code to alert the user that there is something to attend to or an error has occurred.
• QB64 produces the actual "beep" sound through the PC's sound card, emulating QBasic's beeping through the PC speaker.

Availability

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  v0.610

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  all

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  yes

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  yes

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  yes

• There used to be the ability to produce a beep by printing CHR$(7) to the screen. This functionality was no longer available since QB64 v0.960, when SDL audio was exchanged by OpenAL audio.
• In QB64-PE v4.0.0 the beeping functionality using PRINT CHR$(7) has been restored.

See also

• SOUND, PLAY
• _SNDPLAY, _SNDRAW

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