Hmm. Thanks for the tip. I may try this.

Eventually, I found the issue on Symantec's web site message board. It turns out you can uninstall and reinstall the sound card driver and resolve it. NAV 2003 was actually killing the 'default beep' event in Windows.


>Jim,
>
>I agree closer with the response from Ramon Jaquez, but I have used a slightly simpler dll call...
>
>declare integer sndPlaySound in WINMM.dll;
> STRING lcWaveFile,;
> INTEGER lnFlag
>
>lcWaveFile = "c:\WinNT\Media\Chimes.wav" && or whatever..
>=sndPlaySound( lcWaveFile, 17 )
>
>
>The reason I avoided the SET BELL TO was for screen / printer impact...
>??? sends char to printer... which may have issues with buffer / non-printable characters messing up next print job.
>
>?? will print a blank char in the current form which can(will) overwrite a letter, textbox, or other control -- requiring repainting the form.
>
>? is even worse than ?? as it forces a scroll-up as simulating a CR/LF on the form and would require a repaint yet again.
>
>The API call has no scrolling and is quick and simple.
>
>Don