Re: On implementing the 'beep' escape code in conhost

[Jacek Caban]

On 7/23/26 19:14, Elizabeth Figura via Wine-Devel wrote:
> On Thursday, 23 July 2026 12:02:19 CDT Barath Rk wrote:
> > > then the latter shouldn't call MessageBeep().
> > > yeah, Beep doesn't call MessageBeep. the beep I am attempting to
> > > implement will be done by a change in conhost where if '\a'(int 7) is
> > > encountered we call MessageBeep(MB_OK), that's about it
> > > Huh? Beep() calls IOCTL_CONDRV_BEEP, and Eric is proposing that IOCTL_CONDRV_BEEP should call MessageBeep().

FWIW, I think that calling IOCTL_CONDRV_BEEP from Beep is not exactly 
right. As the FIXME in Beep says, it should work when no console is 
attached, which means that it should not depend on conhost. If we'd get 
that right, we could use Beep from conhost.


Jacek