[CLOSED] Why works sysutils.beep() in GUI-programs and not in console-programs?

[Fred vS]

Hum, I dont have Konsole installed.

What if you use a other terminal like xterm, do you get some message too?

[Fred vS]

Maybe interesting:

https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=227&t=48921

That window-message is part of Konsole program and can be enabled/disabled.

[Hartmut]

No, xterm does not show such a small dialog window. But I think this does not lead into a direction in which I want. I want to "use" the existing small dialog window from "Konsole".

I decided to "solve" my problem in the following way: creating a minimal GUI-Program with just

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1. procedure TForm1.FormActivate(Sender: TObject);
2.    begin
3.    sysutils.beep;
4.    Close;
5.    end;

and call this from my console program via TProcess or RunCommand etc.
Of course the opposite of "elegant", but if we can't find out, how FPC does it - I don't want to spend more time in such a small problem like doing a beep ;-)

Thanks again for your help.

[Fred vS]

And what about if you call sysutils.beep in your console app via a timer enabled after begin?

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1. procedure proccallbeeptimer(sender : Tobject);
2. begin
3. timerbeep.enabled := false;
4. application.processmessages; // THIS
5. sysutils.beep;
6. end;