Re: Sound in IDL

["Jörg Schliwa" <joerg.schliwa(at)ewetel.net>]

Well, that's pretty simple, but why can't even 'beep' (I think it rather
sounds like 'bing', anyway) be found in idl's help??!!

David Fanning <davidf@dfanning.com> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
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> Jörg Schliwa (joerg.schliwa@ewetel.net) writes:
>
> > Is there a possibility to make a sound signal in IDL, e.g. to make
'bing'
> > when a calculation has finishid? I couldn't find any hint in the
IDL-help.
>
> On UNIX systems you can try this:
>
>    IDL> Print, String(7B)
>
> On PCs, you can try this:
>
>    IDL> Beep
>
> This goes "beep", rather than "bing", of course. But
> maybe you could get used to it. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
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