SparkOut, > One drawback in particular is that with the internal sound set, then the > beep will sound even if the user's sound settings are set to mute. That > can > be a very unwanted effect.
Or the exact wanted effect. The issue is that beep is just a beep and was not intended to be a magnificent multimedia playback thing, or even an end-user-friendly feature. In the pre-2.9 days, beep always sounded the internal buzzer on Windows boxes. The buzzer had some idiosyncratic capabilities, that didn't even work on all systems, to vary the pitch and duration of its little tweets. It didn't go through the system's sound manager, so you're correct that muting had no effect. Indeed it didn't even use a sound card, which was a very good thing if you were writing a utility for a headless server that didn't have one. You could have different tones for various events, and didn't have to install drivers or hook up speakers for these. Over the years, the internal PC buzzer disappeared from some systems (and indeed was sometimes emulated via poorly-written drivers). In Rev 2.9, it was requested that beep simply sound the system's usual alert tone as specified through the operating system's control panel. And it was made to do so -- with the addition of the beepSound property to satisfy people (like me) who still wanted the ability to address the internal buzzer on Windows for a variety of reasons. So now you have beepPitch and beepDuration being more esoteric than ever, and it appears the changes had the side effect of screwing up the Linux beep, if it ever worked at all (I did not test 2.6.1 on Linux). > I'd love to futher a civil and non-political call for better audio support > in Rev, and in my view something that needs to have no dependence on > QuickTime. Sure. I just wanted to address a very specific technical question. This has nothing to do with QuickTime. It's just about calling the standard system alert. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
