| msg15959 - (view) |
Author: Walter Dörwald (doerwalter) *  |
Date: 2003-05-10 11:44 |
| libwinsound.tex is missing a description of the MessageBeep() function. |
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| msg15960 - (view) |
Author: Tim Peters (tim.peters) * |
Date: 2003-05-11 04:52 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=31435 Assigned to Guido because, IIRC, he added this function. Guido, why did you add it? It seems like a redundant way of calling winsound.PlaySound() with the SND_ALIAS argument. |
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| msg15961 - (view) |
Author: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum) * |
Date: 2003-05-11 10:21 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=6380 I added it because I discovered that on my Win98 machine certain calls to MessageBeep() make a funny sound (a very brief distorted click) rather than what they are supposed to do. I haven't found docs showing the resource names used by MessageBeep() that I could pass to SND_ALIAS. |
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| msg15962 - (view) |
Author: Tim Peters (tim.peters) * |
Date: 2003-05-11 16:03 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=31435 I don't think you meant what you wrote -- that you added MessageBeep() because MessageBeep() doesn't do what it's supposed to do. If PlaySound() gave a distorted click, and you're using it right, then you probably have a corrupt .wav file associated with the sound you tried to play; you can check that more directly via the Sounds applet in Control Panel (which lists the .wav file associated with sound names, and has a preview button to play them directly). About docs, did you read the Python docs for PlaySound ()? For example, MessageBeep(MB_ICONASTERISK) should do the same as PlaySound('SystemAsterisk', SND_ALIAS) The docs don't directly list MB_XYZ equivalents, but they're easy to guess from the Python docs. |
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| msg15963 - (view) |
Author: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum) * |
Date: 2003-05-11 20:40 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=6380 I really did mean what I wrote -- I wanted to experiment with different calls to MessageBeep() to see how far the damage extends. I tried the control panel and none of the sounds there are broken -- yet MessageBeep() is broken. We can look at this tomorrow in the office (my laptop is turned off right now and I have no time for experiments). |
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| msg15964 - (view) |
Author: Tim Peters (tim.peters) * |
Date: 2003-05-11 23:03 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=31435 Hmm. OK. There's a disconnect here somewhere. Like why would you add a function to Python when you don't think it works correctly? I understand wanting to experiment on your own box. If it doesn't work, though, why add it to the distribution? FWIW, the 5 MB_xyz thingies work OK with MessageBeep () on my Win98SE laptop. |
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| msg15965 - (view) |
Author: Tim Peters (tim.peters) * |
Date: 2003-05-11 23:57 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=31435 FYI, the MB_xyz thingies work OK with MessageBeep () on my Win98SE desktop too. |
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| msg15966 - (view) |
Author: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum) * |
Date: 2003-05-16 01:42 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=6380 LaTeX docs checked in. Case closed. |
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