bicameral2 Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 Is there anyway to disable the warning tone that VWX makes? Quote Link to comment
Art V Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 In Tools>Options>Vectorworks Preferences go to the sessions tab and there you can set the sound volume or disable sound Quote Link to comment
bicameral2 Posted March 16, 2018 Author Share Posted March 16, 2018 Unfortunately that isn't the sound i'm talking about. That sound control is for the clicks that vectorworks gives off when you rollover buttons. Windows has a warning sound that vectorworks triggers whenever I label something or force select a layer. it's always been this way, but I would previously turn my volume down. I have a new setup, and I like to have my volume up with music playing. I need this incessant sound to stop. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted March 16, 2018 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted March 16, 2018 Fairly certain it can be done, but has to be done on the Windows end: 1) Open the Control Panel. 2) In the Control Panel, click or Hardware and Sound. Click Sound. In the Sound window click the Sounds tab. 3) In the Program Events section, find the sound you want to disable or change. Then, in the drop-down list in the Sounds section, select (None) if you want to disable the sound or select a different sound file if you want to change the sound. 4) Click OK and Save or Yes if prompted or to save the settings for the currently selected Sound Scheme. I'm pretty sure the item you're looking for is "Exclamation" or "System Notification" which is what Vectorworks keeps triggering. Quote Link to comment
bicameral2 Posted March 17, 2018 Author Share Posted March 17, 2018 ok. thank you. there are a few alerts of different names that all sound the same. VWX seemed to like "default beep." I wish I didn't have to disable a warning system wide, but i'm glad it's solved to now. thanks for your help. Quote Link to comment
Art V Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 Why not simply disable all windows sounds in the sound settings? It will disable all application beeps and bleeps while sound produced by the software itself (e.g. music player, VoIP phone etc.) remains unaffected. Generally I don't want any application to produce sounds (e.g. e-mail pings etc.) unless it is an essential part of its functionality (again the music player, VoIP phone etc.). Quote Link to comment
bicameral2 Posted March 19, 2018 Author Share Posted March 19, 2018 not sure what you mean art. I don't know of a setting in vectorworks that does that. the only sound setting I have is for "vectorworks smart sounds" and that doesn't affect system tones. Quote Link to comment
Art V Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 I meant disabling all sounds in the windows sound settings, not the VW sound settings. Quote Link to comment
TessF Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 How do you do this on Mac? That "BING!!!" is driving me batty. Well, battier. Quote Link to comment
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