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• B–Panel is a small Control Panel that lets you configure the system beep by adding a text message to the standard beep procedure. What you get is a window popping up at beep time with a one-line message, then either the beep sound or a user-defined pause before it disappears.
• The message and the beep can be switched on or off separately (no signal at all, beep only, message only, or both). You can configure the font and size of the text, the window location and size and the message to be displayed. To avoid bombs, a few environment checks are performed before the window opens. If the window can't be opened (weird situations like a program beeping and quitting before initializing the Mac environment), only the sound will be played - if it's enabled.
• B–Panel can be used to turn off all beep actions completely (no sound and no menu bar flash), which can be useful to speed up run-alone software like BBS management programs.
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