I’m new to Applescript and of course the first command I tried is beep.
Unfortunately I just can’t make my computer beep! And of course my volume is at maximum…
Here is the script I tried:
beep
display dialog "Hello World! How about some more beeps?"
beep
The dialog is correctly displayed but no sound is played.
May I have disabled something in the System prefs?
I know this problem “sounds” stupid but I searched the net without success on that.
Thanks
Model: PB G4
AppleScript: 1.10.7
Browser: Safari 419.3
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.4)
@StefanK yes indeed my Mac did not play any alert sound from any application. Although everything was ok
in the System prefs. In fact I ran into one of the few times where I had to reboot my computer to have it working properly.
I guess I had the alert manager module stuck for having played too much with the speech recognition these days (it’s only a guess).
After the reboot everything works as expected.
Thanks for the alert volume slider tip. I did not know about it.
make sure that in system preferences under universal access and the hearing tab that you don’t have the flash the screen with an alert sound occurs. check box
hope that helps.