WebBrowser Noise

[macehowling]

Does anyone else get a noise from the WebBrowser whenever you load a page? Internet Explorer does this too and I want to turn it off. Does anyone know how to silence this?

 

[JohnH]

Posted elsewhere:

You can turn off the sounds IE makes by going into the Control Panel / Sounds and clear the "Starts Navigation" item.

There should be a corresponding setting in registry for this.

 

[macehowling]

Posted elsewhere:

There should be a corresponding setting in registry for this.

Hmm, I got rid of the "starts navigation" but I am getting the default beep sound now, when I hit enter from the URL textbox. The URL textbox has an event that catches the keystroke and clicks my go button. Is this indicative of an error? I don't see a pop-up error from the scripts. I am dynamically adding a webbrowser object into a tab in a tabcontrol when the "addtab" button is pressed. I suspect that doing this automatically suppresses the script errors. I can't even turn the script errors back on even if I explicitly set the suppression = false. Does anyone know if this is true? And why it might be giving me a default beep every time hit enter to navigate to a page?

 

[JohnH]

If you temporarily select the 'No Sounds' scheme do you still hear sounds? If not I'd look through that list to see if there could be a match. Possibly the Windows default beep?

 

[macehowling]

If you temporarily select the 'No Sounds' scheme do you still hear sounds? If not I'd look through that list to see if there could be a match. Possibly the Windows default beep?

Yes, the sounds goes away if I choose "No sounds" and yes it is the Windows default beep. Is there a way to get rid of the windows default beep in the webbrowser? I don't want to remove all sounds to fix this.

 

[JohnH]

As I understand it there is no override of sounds for a WebBrowser control instance, these are system defined.

 

[macehowling]

As I understand it there is no override of sounds for a WebBrowser control instance, these are system defined.

But why does it happen? When I am using Internet Explorer I hear no such sound when I perform the same action.

 

[JohnH]

but I am getting the default beep sound now, when I hit enter from the URL textbox

Let's have this clear, you have a standard TextBox control in a form and when you type in it and press Enter key it beeps? You were talking about lots of other things and this was confusing. I have always used the 'No Sounds' scheme btw, so I wouldn't know without testing where Windows give default sounds.

 

[macehowling]

Let's have this clear, you have a standard TextBox control in a form and when you type in it and press Enter key it beeps? You were talking about lots of other things and this was confusing. I have always used the 'No Sounds' scheme btw, so I wouldn't know without testing where Windows give default sounds.

I am using a combobox control in the form and when I press "Enter", I hear the Windows Default beep.

 

[JohnH]

I set the Window Default sound scheme and added a ComboBox to a form. I can confirm there is a default window 'ding' sound when pressing Enter key. Nothing to worry about.

Another thing, you say IE doesn't make that sound, but IE isn't using a ComboBox, it is a standard TextBox combined with a button that display some kind of drop-down panel (probably a form of some kind).

 

[macehowling]

I set the Window Default sound scheme and added a ComboBox to a form. I can confirm there is a default window 'ding' sound when pressing Enter key. Nothing to worry about.

Another thing, you say IE doesn't make that sound, but IE isn't using a ComboBox, it is a standard TextBox combined with a button that display some kind of drop-down panel (probably a form of some kind).

Great! I was about to go crazy.

So IE does it differently...hmm maybe I should try to implement it that way...but seems like a lot of trouble for something a combobox is made for.

Thanks a lot for your help.