Weird typewriter sound as I type into a textbox (wpf) in C#.

Question

I've made a pretty simple WPF windows with a textbox in it. As I type in it it gives me this weird typewriter-sound. Any idea why? And how can I stop it from doing it?

Answer 1

I've never seen that by default in WPF. Check your system sounds in your Control Panel. Either that or one of your officemates is playing some sort of trick on you.

Answer 2

As there is no built-in functionality in WPF to automatically generate a weird typewriter sound in text boxes, you basically have 2 choices:

1. Remove the code that you have in the text changed event that plays the weird typewriter sound.
2. Make sure that you don't have any third party applications that generates weird typewriter sounds on your system.

Answer 3

In case it could help, but I doubt of that: Is that limited to the application you develop? I had this coupled with light display anomalies and it was the graphic card that was dying. The sound was associated with mouse moves on some windows.

Answer 4

As Magnus mentions, you may need to check the event handler for the TextChanged, KeyDown, and KeyUp events for the TextBox(es) that give you that response. It is possible to code something to make a sound on every KeyDown or KeyUp event, but there is no setting in Windows to do that, nor does WPF do something like that by default.

I did find some articles that show how to make a "clicky" keyboard, and they all were meant for mobile or touch devices. You may want to check to see if the project config file has a target device set to either one of those.

Answer 5

It was the most terrible "error" I ever had. :-D Everytime I typed something in my textbox I refreshed a webview. That refreshing made this sound.