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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• Older programs may attempt to produce a beep by printing CHR$(7) to the screen. This functionality is no longer supported in QB64 after version 1.000.
  • To maintain the legacy functionality, you may need to replace instances of PRINT CHR$(7) in older programs with the BEEP statement.
• QB64-PE v4.0.0 restores beeping functionality using PRINT CHR$(7).

See also

• SOUND, PLAY
• _SNDPLAY (play sound files)
• _SNDRAW (play frequency waves)

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