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[ron G]

I am using FM Adv 11 on OSX

I have a pretty simple situation.  There are a couple of navigation buttons (right and left arrows) that, when clicked goto next or goto previous record.

The 'mystery' comes into play when I navigate through my database, I get a beep on 'some' records'.  It frequently is NOT reproduceable on the same record.  

It also occurs when I open a new window with a new layout in that window.

Silence would be golden if I could figure this out.  Your help is appreciated.  Thanks

Ron

[Lee Smith]

Hello Ron,

Have you been able to track down your beeping problem yet? I have noticed a Phantom beep occasionally also, and have always attributed it to FileMaker losing focus  because it just seems to be lagging.

Lee

[Rick Whitelaw]

I think I can confirm the beeping as FM lagging behind the pace of the user. Depending on the redraw requirements a layout might require, clicking the increment arrow twice in quick succession can produce the beep. This can occur when scrolling through script lines in the debugger as well . . .

RW

[ron G]

Latency seems to make sense.

Isn't there some way to 'turn off' the beeping from within FM?

[Lee Smith]

Its not a setting that I have ever seen.

It might even be a feature, FileMaker's way of saying slooooooow down, I have things to complete.  

[ron G]

I just tried to navigate through my found set (67 records) at a pace of about 1 record per second.  It still beeped unexpectedly.

This begs the question "Does FM expect users to navigate through the recordset at a pace slower than 1 record per second?  weird.