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Ring the bell using AWT
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/*
* Copyright (c) 2004 David Flanagan. All rights reserved.
* This code is from the book Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3nd Edition.
* It is provided AS-IS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY either expressed or implied.
* You may study, use, and modify it for any non-commercial purpose,
* including teaching and use in open-source projects.
* You may distribute it non-commercially as long as you retain this notice.
* For a commercial use license, or to purchase the book,
* please visit http://www.davidflanagan.com/javaexamples3.
*/
// Ring the bell!
public class Beep {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// In terminal-based applications, this is a non-portable, unreliable
// way to sound the terminal bell (if there is one) and get the
// user's attention. \u0007 is the ASCII BEL or Ctrl-G character.
System.out.println("BEEP\u0007!");
// For applications that can use AWT, there is another way
// to ring the bell.
String[] words = new String[] { "Shave ", "and ", "a ", "hair", "cut ", "two ", "bits." };
int[] pauses = new int[] { 300, 150, 150, 250, 450, 250, 1 };
for (int i = 0; i < pauses.length; i++) {
// Ring the bell using AWT
java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().beep();
System.out.print(words[i]);
System.out.flush();
// Wait a while before beeping again.
try {
Thread.sleep(pauses[i]);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
}
}
System.out.println();
}
}
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