Hi there...
We have an application named "Endora" which does play
sounds from the "Betwitched" TV show when it takes various actions. (About
the name... we had apparently used up all of the viable aliases for
"wizard." There was a lot of estrogen in the room at the time
:-)
Enodra uses a hidden view field, and active links that do a
set fields to it. The set fields pastes the following text:
"<html>
<body>
<bgsound
src=""
>
Boo!
</body>
</html>"
... into the view field, which causes the form to produce
the sound of Samantha the Witch wriggling her nose.
I do like Jim Bruce's method replacing the template just
because it would be more easily configured by putting the URL to the
sound into a separate field and table somewhere.
I dimly remember trying to store the sounds as attachments
locally, but you'd need a local attachment field to store it, then you'd need to
detatch it, then invoke media player to play it, which would make it visible.
Just a regular URL to a .wav file is a lot simpler. Note that this won't work
with all kinds of sound files, but does work on the web.
We have also played with loading URL's to display current
weather, satellite maps of the user's building based on zip code and so forth,
but have not stored any of these attachments in-house.
Doug
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Subject: Re: Best way to play sounds?
This is possible. Not sure about Mid-Tier though.
You can embed a sound file via html and a view field... Doug - are you listening? How was this done in Endora?
I can't remember where the sound file was stored (in an attachment?) ...
-tony
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Well, any AL firing condition can fire any action. So if you wanted to have the client welcome the user when they open a form, for instance, you could have an AL that does a command line call to a .wav file on an accessible server. If you open your Alert tool, you'll notice that you have that ability within the tool to specify any .wav file as your notification buzzer.
Not sure how that would work with MT - haven't tried it.
Rick
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Hey guys, what’s the best way to play a sound over the user tool? Over the mid-tier?
ARS 5.1.2, Mid-Tier 5.1.2
Gracias!!
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