Re: System::Beep() removal (2nd)
On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 01:31 +0100, Thomas Arnhold wrote: Hi folks, some time ago we removed all ancient beeps in the source (fdo#48549). Which was a good thing for the general case IMO. It seems this was kind of too forward, because users want a beep as acoustic feedback for Basic macros (fdo#58807). I want to get some opinions about bringing the vcl/sound related stuff back so we get beeps working for Basic again. Or are there alternatives?! Can't think of an alternative except cheezy visual-bell things like flashing the screen or printing the word beep on stdout :-) Maybe we should indeed restore just the bare beep for the sole purpose of the macro case. C. ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
Re: System::Beep() removal (2nd)
On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 01:31 +0100, Thomas Arnhold wrote: I want to get some opinions about bringing the vcl/sound related stuff back so we get beeps working for Basic again. Or are there alternatives?! System beeps essentially don't work (at least on Linux) and on terminal servers particularly. I wonder if we could instead play a sound with the avmedia backend - of course, it'd be synchronous and lamer - but then, people using 'Beep' deserve everything they get I guess ;-) At least, that'd be my recommendation. Thanks, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com , Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
Re: System::Beep() removal (2nd)
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 16:18 +, Michael Meeks wrote: System beeps essentially don't work (at least on Linux) and on terminal servers particularly. I wonder if we could instead play a sound with the avmedia backend - of course, it'd be synchronous and lamer - but then, people using 'Beep' deserve everything they get I guess ;-) For the Linux case I still reckon Application::Beep - XBell has the highest chance of getting a Beep to happen where the user is sitting than any fancy pants solution :-) And its probably easier to resurrect that code. C. ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
System::Beep() removal (2nd)
Hi folks, some time ago we removed all ancient beeps in the source (fdo#48549). It seems this was kind of too forward, because users want a beep as acoustic feedback for Basic macros (fdo#58807). I want to get some opinions about bringing the vcl/sound related stuff back so we get beeps working for Basic again. Or are there alternatives?! cons: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-ux-advise/2012-February/000890.html Regards Thomas ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
