Appointment alarms cause the alarm beep. For the alarm to be an
appointment alarm, the "alarm message" has to be a character string;
that is, text enclosed by double-quotation marks, as in: "HELLO". If you
leave the message field in the input form empty, then an empty character
string, "", is entered for you, so that causes it to be an appointment
alarm.
Any other type of alarm object causes the alarm to be treated as an execution
alarm, which doesn't cause an alarm beep. For example, if you enter:
HELLO (without quotation marks) into the message field, it will be
treated as an execution alarm. Execution alarm objects are usually
programs or global variable names for programs.
You could use a program object which explicitly executes the BEEP
command as the alarm object. Of course, for the BEEP command to be
effective, the standard beep has to be turned on; that is, flag -56 must
be clear.
Regards,
James
Edited: 22 Sept 2003, 5:47 a.m.