Article ID: 126405
Article Last Modified on 9/30/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q126405
SYMPTOMS
If you have installed multimedia software or a sound board, using CHR(7) to ring the bell may no longer work in FoxPro. The bell is silent whether you SET BELL TO a wave file, or to the normal system bell.
CAUSE
The multimedia software installed TIMER.DRV as a device driver in the [DEVICE] section of the SYSTEM.INI file. TIMER.DRV is causing a conflict with FoxPro and the bell is not ringing.
WORKAROUND
There are two possible resolutions to the problem:
- Remove TIMER.DRV by choosing the Control Panel Drivers icon, highlighting the TIMER.DRV entry, and clicking the Remove push button.
- Use the steps outlined in the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
102585 How to Play Waveform (.WAV) Files in FoxPro for Windows
STATUS
This behavior is by design.
MORE INFORMATION
For more information, please see the following related articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Additional query words: FoxWin VFoxWin 2.50 2.50a 2.50b 2.60 2.60a
Keywords: KB126405