Playing beep sound on J2SE

[sukatoa]

Is there a way to play the alert tone(small speaker) installed on the motherboard from java?

Like the way we call it in C "\a" character........ i forgot whats the code to play it in C.... im not sure......

[myusernotyours]

import java.awt.*;
public class beep {
  public static void main(String args[]) {
     Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().beep();
     }
  }
 
}

Regards
Alex.

[sukatoa]

import java.awt.*;
public class beep {
  public static void main(String args[]) {
     Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().beep();
     }
  }
 
}

Regards
Alex.

Thanks for your reply........ That also beeps.......

But the beep that i was trying to play is from that speaker:

Installed in the Motherboard,
Cylindrical form (less than an inch diameter, half an inch height) speaker...
Near the rechargeable(Lithium/Nickel) battery above the RAM port, or similar....

Not the external(connected in audio port)....

For example, when we unplug the harddisk(Get out from IDE/SATA), then start the PC, that beep(Morse type) signifies that a required harddrive must be plugged-in.....

Another example is from the mysql command-prompt.... that when we got the wrong query, that speaker also beeps......

But, anyway thanks for your reply......
sukatoa

[Nepomuk]

To beep with the mainboard speaker, use this:

System.out.println("\007");
System.out.flush();

However, this might not work within an IDE like Eclipse - it will however work when calling your program from command line.

Greetings,
Nepomuk

[myusernotyours]

Any one Knows why this does not work with an IDE? Even in netbeans no beep sounds. And I also found that a SplashScreen does not work in an IDE either. Makes one feel shortchanged if an IDE can't support such 'simple' stuff.

[Nepomuk]

Any one Knows why this does not work with an IDE? Even in netbeans no beep sounds. And I also found that a SplashScreen does not work in an IDE either. Makes one feel shortchanged if an IDE can't support such 'simple' stuff.

I don't know about the SplashScreens, but the beep sound is not played because the standard output goes to the IDE instead of "normal" stdio and is not forwarded from there. You could probably make it beep by writing a simple C program like

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
   printf("\a");
}

and calling that from Java. Not a nice way to do it, I admit, but it should work. Or course, this C file would have to be recompiled for every platform you use it on, but if it's just for developement...

By the way, you can use

System.out.println('\b');

too - it does the same as System.out.println('\007').

Probably the best option is just to test your program with the command line ever so often, to make sure all of the beeps are at the right place.

Greetings,
Nepomuk

[sukatoa]

Thanks for replies guys.....

Can i request to admin?

To change the title into "Playing beep sound on J2SE" or near to this topic?

Alert tone sounds like J2ME......

I've attempted searching about this topic, and all i've got is a sample for J2ME.....


Thanks again,
sukatoa

[r035198x]

...

Can i request to admin?

To change the title into "Playing beep sound on J2SE" or near to this topic?

..

That will be two nickels ...

[JosAH]

Any one Knows why this does not work with an IDE? Even in netbeans no beep sounds. And I also found that a SplashScreen does not work in an IDE either. Makes one feel shortchanged if an IDE can't support such 'simple' stuff.

It all depends on the terminal (emulation) capabilities; there are a lot of Unicode
ISO control characters; I never see any bold (or stretched out) font characters
following an SO character either. Look here for all of them; most are forgotten.

kind regards,

Jos

[BigDaddyLH]

I hate it when programs beep.

[JosAH]

I hate it when programs beep.

Especially for you I am going to play Ludwig von Beethoven's Symphony #9
for an irritating little computer beep thingy:

an'a one, an'a two, an'a one, two, three four! Maestro!

<beep><beep>><bip><boooooop>
<baap><baap><bep>>booooooooop>
<bip><bip><bip><bip><bip><bip><bip><bip><bwooop>
<bip><bip><bip><bip><bip><bip><bip><bip><bip><bwaa aaap>
<da capo al fine/>

kind regards,

Jos ;-)