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tunghoy
tunghoy
Inspiring
October 29, 2015
Question

How do I stop the beeping when I use shortcuts?

  • October 29, 2015
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Using Captivate 9 for Mac under El Capitan……..

This isn’t my biggest issue with CP 9, but it’s annoying: how do I stop it from making that dull beeping sound every time I use a keyboard shortcut? It’s like the error sound it might make if I were attempting an illegal operation. I don’t know if it’s a bug or a feature, but I can’t imagine anyone thought this would be a good idea.

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      kdmemory
      kdmemory
      Inspiring
      September 19, 2020

      My advise is to use the Feature Request/Bug Report Form to make the development team of Captivate more aware of these, seemingly, MacOS-specific problems.

      Make sure to indicate your MacOS version and your Captivate version correctly. Meaning: do not write something like Captivate 2019, instead look it up in Captivate right-side from the Apple under Adobe Captivate/About Adobe Captivate ...

      Do it, the more the better!

      Klaus

      kdmemory
      kdmemory
      Inspiring
      September 19, 2020

      Well, MacOS friends, I'm with you. Using Cp version 11.5.4.613 I'm hearing this "muk" sound myself everytime I'm using a keyboard shortcut. And indeed, it makes you feel as you would have done something wrong. Since a while now I use right mouse click and then context menu to avoid it.

      This is just one quirk out of many when working with Cp on MacOS. Another one, related for sure, is when you copy some text from another application, in my case mostly BBEdit, into let's say the Script window in Cp, by using Cmd-C and then Cmd-V, it gets pasted two times or sometimes even three times on definately only one key stroke. And it makes "muk" on top of that. Forget keyboard shortcuts in Cp/MacOS.

      And, RodWard, to answer with "Gotta love MACs" is really not the way to deal with MacOS user's concerns in a respectful way.

      Klaus

      RodWard
      RodWard
      Community Expert
      September 19, 2020

      And people wonder why Lilybiri and I have stopped answering questions about MAC problems...

      madisons54011151
      madisons54011151
      Participating Frequently
      September 18, 2020

      Well, it's now the fall of 2020 (Captivate 2019), and my software has started beeping at me with a weird submarine/sonar sound whenever I use certain keyboard commands: Cmd+C, Cmd+V, Cmd+S... This does not happen when I mouse up to the top menu or right-click for the same functions. SIGH and MAKE IT STOP!

      madisons54011151
      madisons54011151
      Participating Frequently
      September 21, 2020

      Here's the solve that worked for me (not a "Captivate" issue, per se, but the sound only happened in Captivate. I hope this is helpful to others! 

       

      http://www.mactricksandtips.com/2008/07/switch-off-annoying-system-sounds.html

      tunghoy
      tunghoyAuthor
      Inspiring
      November 3, 2015

      At this point, I'm pretty sure Captivate incorrectly thinks I'm attempting an illegal operation. For example, if an object is selected or the focus is on the slide background and I press Cmd + S to save, the file gets saved but I hear the Funk error sound. But if I click a slide thumbnail in the left panel to select it and then save, Captivate saves without the error sound.

      So I'll say this is an irritating but non-fatal bug. It's one of several.

      sumanaac
      sumanaac
      Participating Frequently
      September 25, 2016

      I have the exact same issue, and it's annoying mostly because I use an iPad app (Custom Keypad) that I configured to work as a shortcut control surface connected to my Mac, this app uses the keyboard shortcuts to control different things so when I use it with captivate every action I take with the app sounds as a warning.

      It's so annoying, and even more annoying is that I'm writing this almost a year after you asked for a solution to this issue and it hasn't been resolved yet.

        RodWard
        RodWard
        Community Expert
        October 20, 2018

        Now 2018 Q4 and still not fixed.


        Gotta love MACs.

        Lilybiri
        Lilybiri
        Brainiac
        October 29, 2015

        I'm not sure about which sound you are talking, maybe this:

        tunghoy
        tunghoyAuthor
        Inspiring
        October 29, 2015

        Thanks, but that controls the run-time attributes of an object. I'm talking about the user interface, itself. I think it's the Funk sound that you'd find in the Audio control panel in System Preferences. It's as though Captivate sees every keyboard shortcut as an error, but executes the shortcuts, anyway. Photoshop does this in Windows sometimes, but Captivate does it on the Mac all the time.

          Lilybiri
          Lilybiri
          Brainiac
          October 29, 2015

          That was not clear to me from your question. I am a shortcut freak, and never heard that sound, but I'm not on a Mac.

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