Audio Ping

How can I create an audio-Ping with DXL, in this case announcing the end of a script without using an ack dialog?
llandale - Tue Apr 19 09:58:35 EDT 2011

Re: Audio Ping
Mathias Mamsch - Tue Apr 19 13:58:41 EDT 2011

Hmm for example using the commandline:

system "cmd.exe /C sndrec32.exe /play /close /embedding \"%WINDIR%\\Media\\Windows XP-Benachrichtigung.wav\""

You could also pop up a nice flash screen (using a floating dialog), that will remove itself from the screen after 2 seconds, for the people that have their sounds disabled:

DB x = create("", styleCentered | styleNoBorder | styleFloating) 
 
int cnt = 0; 
void removeMe(DBE neverUseThis) { if (++cnt == 2) hide x }
void closeDB (DB x) { hide x }
 
label (x, "The DXL has finished!") 
timer (x, 2.0, removeMe, "RemoveTimer") 
 
close (x, false, closeDB) 
 
show x

Feel free to replace the label by something more fancy, wrap this in a nice splashScreen function and repost the code ... :-)

Regards, Mathias

Mathias Mamsch, IT-QBase GmbH, Consultant for Requirement Engineering and D00RS