[ruby-talk:26024] Re: sounding the alarm ?

Tk has a beep. But it doesn't seem to work on windows. Probably
not worth requiring Tk

[e-mail] wrote:
> 
> In the past, I have used Xdialog(s?) to create quick and dirty pop-up alarm
> dialogs with a bit of text and a few beeps.  I installed Rh7.2, and have
> decided to use Ruby to recreate these alarms.
> 
> The problem I'm having doing this with ruby is one that I have had with other
> scripting languages I've used, getting multiple audible beeps to sound at the
> appropriate time, when the dialog box opens.  Frequently, the dialog box ends
> up preventing the beeps until the user hits the 'OK' button, to acknowledge the
> alarm, and killing the dialog.
> 
> I've always found it somewhat weird that a "programmer" has to, frequently,
> resort to using a "print \a", or something else "cheap", to get a beep.
> Sometimes, you have to create a console just to be able to do the beep.
> 
> Ruby doesn't seem to have a beep object.  Have I missed one?
> 
> Below, is my quick attempt to accomplish this using ruby.
> 
> The version before this one did not create a class and def's, but used the
> code objects in a procedural manner.  I created the class in hopes of delaying
> the dialog box creation until after the sound had occurred, but no go.
> Once the window actually gets created, no beeps until it's killed.
> 
> You'll see variations that I have tried commented out at the bottom.
> 
> Is there some quick and dirty way to do this without complicating things with
> threads?
> 
> Ideas?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> here's the code:
> 
> #!/usr/local/bin/ruby
> 
> #
> #
> #
> 
> require 'tk'
> 
> class MyAlarmBox
> 
>     def soundalarm()
>         print "\a"
>     end
> 
>     def showmsg
>         window = TkRoot.new { title "Alarm" }
> 
>         window.geometry("200x70+20+30")
> 
>         label = TkLabel.new(window) \
>         {
>             justify 'center'
>             text ' testing '
>             relief 'ridge'
>             fg 'red'
>             bg 'white'
>             pack('side'=>'top', 'padx'=>10, 'pady'=>10)
>         }
> 
>         TkButton.new(window) \
>         {
>             text "OK"
>             command proc { exit }
>             pack('side'=>'bottom', 'padx'=>10, 'pady'=>4)
>         }
> 
>         Tk.mainloop
>     end
> end
> 
> print "\a"
> 
> # sleep 3
> 
> # mab=MyAlarmBox.new
> # mab.soundalarm
> 
> # sleep 3
> 
> # mab.showmsg
> 
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