Hi Vic,
There is only one chime on the hour if you select chime only and in the
edit menu it states top of the hour. I guess poor wording on my part.
Another issue, since Doug and them said they did not want to expose
menu's items I am limited on using hotkeys for it, since there is no focus
option. but, I have added the Escape and F4 options to get out of the menu,
since there is a dialog close command easy to get to.
Now, I can also change the ChimeOnly to say Top Of the Hour Chime Only
to make it read easier. After all that is what I did in the edit menu.
I think to get around most issues is to eventually get out of using a
menu and having a list. For there is very few options to use in a menu. For
it would be nice to be able to jumped to a given menu item from a hotkey
instead of using a minimum of 2 keystrokes. In other words have at least a
focus property.
So maybe I will have something to upload today unless there more of
those pesky Active X errors that crop up when the menu does not like what I
did...
Bruce
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 3:20 PM
Subject: RE: Cuckoo Clock Ready for Upload
Bruce,
Yes. Changing the path got my sounds working. I am not clear on what the
chime and chime only settings are supposed to do. When I set it to chime
only, I hear just one chime. I thought this was supposed to chime the number
of times for the hour. When I set it to chime and count, I hear the number
of chimes for the hour, but not any indication of the count. Is that what is
supposed to be happening?
BTW: It is triggering correctly. My earlier complaint about not triggering
was not correct after I re-installed.
Great job!!!!! I look forward to the update.
Vic
-----Original Message-----
From: BT [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 8:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Cuckoo Clock Ready for Upload
Hi Again Vic,
The problem with the .wav files is the path to find them is my path and
yours I am sure is different.
I think the easiest fix is for you to go into each sound edit and the
default will come up for your sound file. It is using the path of my
computer in the .ini file and probably my mistake not thinking it would be a
problem.
For I should have not had any sounds and let it find the defaults when
first looking at the InitCuckooClock procedure, then all of this would have
been no issue.
So, now when packaging up my fixes and your suggestions today, I will
get rid of all my settings in the .ini file and let the init section do it.
Sorry about the hassle and my rush to get it out. but, that is the way
to find out the obvious mistakes a programmer works around when programming.
I was going to change the files for voice and the 45 may be a merge
instead of other files to even get off beat times instead of just
quarter/half hour voices. Something I was going to add later but may do it
now.
My issue last night instead of coming up a fatal error finally came up
with the line number. I had fallen asleep and changed just one variable name
by adding a t at the beginning. But, kept coming up with nasty fatal Active
X error that got or went no where beyond the error itself. so just a few
minutes ago when powering up it did tell me the line and sure enough it was
inside the sleep procedure I was playing with and had settings that would
have triggered it then last night and that is where it fell apart...
Thank god for the Option Explicit command...
So, vic try the editing of all the sound files and letting it do the
defaults inside the brows command and save them and I think that will fix
the sound problems except the 45 one. When making it I had all 60 voices and
got conservative in how large I wanted the wav files and that one got
shrunk...
Time to get ready for Sunday School adult class...
Bruce
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 8:05 PM
Subject: RE: Cuckoo Clock Ready for Upload
Bruce,
I think this app has great potential, but needs a few rough edges worked out
yet. It is not working very well for me here on Windows 7 SP1 X64. Here are
the problems I am having.
When I first installed the app, I disabled the following menu items: Alarm
Enable, Date/Time Enhancement, and Rooster Wakeup Enable. I left the clock
set to Quarter Hour chime. On the edit menu I set the Sleep Time to 11:00 PM
and the Wakeup Time to 8:00 AM. On the Announcement menu, I left it set for
Chime and Female.
When it does announce the time, which it does not seem to do regularly, I
only hear the female voice, not the chimes. If I choose Test Announcement, I
again only hear the female voice, not the chimes. I did not change any of
the default sounds.
If I set it to Chime Only and do a test, I hear nothing.
If I set it to Chime and Count and do a test, I hear only the chimes.
If I set it to Chime and Male or Chime and Female and test, I hear only the
specified voice, not the chimes.
The male 45 sound is not the same as the rest of the sounds.
If I set it to Male Only or Female Only and test, it seems to work
correctly.
There are also several issues with the dialog that I don't understand:
You can't press Alt-C to bring up the Clock menu even though C is announced
as the hot key. The other menu hot keys do not work as well.
When you have the dialog up and alt-tab to it, the Alt key does not bring up
the menu the first time you press it. You have to press it at least twice to
bring up the menus.
You can't just press Escape to exit the dialog. Alt-F4 does not work either.
The only way I have found to close the dialog is to open the Clock menu and
choose the Exit choice. This is a nuisance, especially since it is so hard
to get into the menus in the first place.
For some reason, it seems to take longer than usual to bring up the dialog.
I just re-installed and all these issues still exist, but it seems as though
the announcement is firing better.
This is purely based on my experience with the app and I hope you will take
this as constructive criticism as it is meant, not putting down your app.
Let me know if you can duplicate any or all of these issues.
Thanks for all your effort in putting out this full-featured app.
Vic
-----Original Message-----
From: BT [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 12:49 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Cuckoo Clock Ready for Upload
Hi!
My cuckoo Clock version 1.0 is ready for upload now.
In this app you will have a menu consisting of:
Clocks Settings to turn on/off all options for sleep, alarm and even noon
whistle.
In that menu is a chime option for once an hour, every half hour and
every quarter hour.
The app starts with the Rooster Crowing, it indicates it is running but that
alert can be shut off in the clocks menu.
It has some of the features of the old Hourly Chime program and many new
aspects.
In the edit menu you can change the files you wish to use for your
alerts to make sounds, such as the Cuckoo clock itself.
Those sound files require a certain number of seconds to run and that
also must be entered.
So for editing sound files you will have a path, file name, and duration
of play time in tenths of a second to enter; (seconds is a combo box choice
and requiring no entry.)
There is also the edit option for setting the sleep time, wakeup time,
and a alarm that runs separate from the others to give you an alert for a
specific time of day. All those entries are a combo box selection as well.
The sleep mode will turn on and shut off the chiming of the program.
When wakeup happens the Rooster crows, or a sound of your choosing.
That Rooster also can be shut off if you just want it to wakeup and say
nothing as I had mentioned earlier.
There is a format menu which is only for the 12 verses the 24 hour
format, which ever you wish; default is 12 hour.
So, next is to get it uploaded and for everyone to find all the bugs in
it...
Sincerely
Bruce
