Re: howto do a robust simple cross platform beep

2012-07-24 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Gelonida N wrote: > > What I do at the moment is: > > For Windows I use winsound.Beep > > For Linux I create some raw data and pipe it into sox's > 'play' command. > > I don't consider this very elegant You may want to get over that. Some software vendors/distr

Re: howto do a robust simple cross platform beep

2012-07-24 Thread Jerry Hill
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Gelonida N wrote: > I tried the simplest approach (just printing the BEL character '\a' chr(7) > to the console. That's what I do when I want to send an audible alert to the user of a console based program. It's then up to the user's terminal to do whatever the u

Re: howto do a robust simple cross platform beep

2012-07-24 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Gelonida N wrote: > On 07/15/2012 03:15 AM, rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com wrote:> On Friday, July > 13, 2012 8:00:05 PM UTC-5, gelonida wrote: >>> I just want to use a beep command that works cross platform. [...] I >>> just want to use them as alert, when certain e

Re: howto do a robust simple cross platform beep

2012-07-24 Thread Gelonida N
On 07/15/2012 03:15 AM, rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com wrote:> On Friday, July 13, 2012 8:00:05 PM UTC-5, gelonida wrote: >> I just want to use a beep command that works cross platform. [...] I >> just want to use them as alert, when certain events occur within a >> very long running non GUI applic

Re: howto do a robust simple cross platform beep

2012-07-14 Thread rantingrickjohnson
On Friday, July 13, 2012 8:00:05 PM UTC-5, gelonida wrote: > I just want to use a beep command that works cross platform. [...] I > just want to use them as alert, when certain events occur within a > very long running non GUI application. I can see a need for this when facing a non GUI interface.

Re: howto do a robust simple cross platform beep

2012-07-14 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Hans Mulder wrote: > The other prerequisite is that the use is physically near the > compueter where your Python process is running. > > If, for exmple, I'm ssh'ed into my webserver, then sending a sound > file to the server's speaker may startle someone in the da

Re: howto do a robust simple cross platform beep

2012-07-14 Thread Hans Mulder
On 14/07/12 20:49:11, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Dieter Maurer 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 c

Re: howto do a robust simple cross platform beep

2012-07-14 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Dieter Maurer 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 cloc

Re: howto do a robust simple cross platform beep

2012-07-14 Thread Miki Tebeka
> How do others handle simple beeps? http://pymedia.org/ ? I *think* the "big" UI frameworks (Qt, wx ...) have some sound support. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: howto do a robust simple cross platform beep

2012-07-14 Thread Dieter Maurer
Steven D'Aprano writes: >> How do others handle simple beeps? >> >> I just want to use them as alert, when certain events occur within a >> very long running non GUI application. > > Why? Do you hate your users? I, too, would find it useful -- for me (although I do not hate myself). Surely, you

Re: howto do a robust simple cross platform beep

2012-07-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 03:00:05 +0200, Gelonida N wrote: > How do others handle simple beeps? > > I just want to use them as alert, when certain events occur within a > very long running non GUI application. Why? Do you hate your users? > What I do at the moment is: > > For Windows I use winsoun

howto do a robust simple cross platform beep

2012-07-13 Thread Gelonida N
Hi, I just want to use a beep command that works cross platform. I tried the simplest approach (just printing the BEL character '\a' chr(7) to the console. This fails on my Ubuntu 12.04 host, as the pcspkr is in the list of the blacklisted kernel modules. I found another snippet trying