Beep delay

[jarych]

This idea has come up somewhere. Another way to make something LIKE the NOTICE box. This uses more code than simply NOTICE...


gosub [msgstring]

   nomainwin

   WindowWidth = 550
   WindowHeight = 345

   statictext #main.statictext1, msg$, 30, 46, 480, 185
   button #main.button2, "OK", [button2Click], UL, 214, 256, 122, 25
   open "Try like NOTICE" for dialog_modal as #main
   print #main, "trapclose [quit.main]"

   print #main, "font ms_sans_serif 10"
   playwave "beep"
   wait

[quit.main]
   Close #main
   END


[button2Click]    'Perform action for the button named 'button2'
   'Insert your own code here
   close #main
   wait

[msgstring]
msg$="Static Text information for something to try as if a substitution for Notice Box." _
+chr$(13)+"Display some message for the user, ensure that user must see and have the" _
+chr$(13)+" chance to read and think, and only then, user would close the dialog and continue with the rest of the program." _
+chr$(13)+"**********************************************************************************************"
return


Something strange I find is that the OK button will not appear until AFTER the system sound (ding or beep or whatever) has played.

[tsh73]

Something strange I find is that the OK button will not appear until AFTER the system sound (ding or beep or whatever) has played.

Interesting.
Actually as posted, it plays error sound because it can not find "beep" file.
But even if I put full path to existing sound file - and I hear this file - button do not appear until after sound.

I kind of circumvented it with
   timer 1, [beep]
   wait
[beep]
   timer 0
   playwave "beep"
   wait


As a side note, there is a
function CustomNotice$(title$, message$, buttons$)
in JB FreeForm, menu Output | Add Custom Function.

[jarych]

All that makes me very curious. If PLAYWAVE "beep" is making the code play the error-sound, where does JB automatically know where to look; into which file directory path in Windows, the find whatever "beep" or other is to be played? One could certainly make some use of this information.

[jarych]

A brief web search and looking through a file path directory, and some code-development steps, this shows how to find what is what about some WAV files.


'ShallWePlayAWav.bas    Aug. 8, 2022

[looping]

input "Shall we play a WAV ? ";answer$

if left$(answer$,1)="y" or left$(answer$,1)="Y" then
filedialog "open a file (WAV) to be played.","C:\Windows\Media\*.wav",sound$
else
end
end if

IF sound$="" then END

playwave sound$

goto [looping]

END



[Rod]

How about adding the optional ,async flag. Do we still have the same delay?

Yes async solves the problem

playwave "beep",async