[wxMSW,wxGTK] A simple Beep, how?

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Carsten" == Carsten A Arnholm <arnholm at offline.no> writes:

 Carsten> Hi,

 Carsten> I have a wxWidgets 2.8.4 application running on wxMSW and
 Carsten> wxGTK. It sometimes needs to issue simple sound alarms. It
 Carsten> should really not spend any resources working with sounds,
 Carsten> so a direct equivalent to the Windows API function
 Carsten> Beep(frequency,duration) is fine for this purpose.

 Carsten> I have looked around to see if I can make a "Beep sound"
 Carsten> using wxWidgets, but I cannot find anything. There is a
 Carsten> wxSound, but it needs a WAV file if I understand it
 Carsten> correctly, and it seems a bit much.

 Carsten> Does a wxWidgets Beep exist?

wxBell() is what you need.  It works on Windows at least; my Linux
system stubbornly refuses to do anything with it.  That's undoubtedly
a setup issue rather than a wx issue.

  paul