On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Dieter Maurer <die...@handshake.de> wrote: > I, too, would find it useful -- for me (although I do not hate myself). > > Surely, you know an alarm clock. Usually, it gives an audible signal > when it is time to do something. A computer can in principle be used > as a flexible alarm clock - but it is not so easy with the audible signal... > An audible signal has the advantage (over a visual one) that you can > recognize it even when you are not looking at the screen (because you > are thinking). > > Unfortunately, I had to give up. My new computer lacks a working > speaker...
There's a simple cheat you can do. Just invoke some other application to produce the sound! My current alarm clock comes in two modes: it either picks a random MIDI file from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Ruddigore", or it plays the "Alice: Madness Returns" theme; in each case it just invokes the file with its default association (see the "start" command in Windows, or "gnome-open" in, well, GNOME). Of course, working speaker IS a prerequisite. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
