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Re: Sound in linux [message #44038 is a reply to message #44031]

Wed, 17 December 2014 11:30

mirek
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Registered: November 2005

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rainbowsally wrote on Tue, 16 December 2014 10:51

These are freedesktop sounds but I don't know what installed them. They were in my suse 11.4 and my mint 15

/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/dialog-error.oga
/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/dialog-warning.oga
/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/dialog-information.oga

Probably the most generic player with ability to suppress commandline noise is sox. It installs the
/usr/bin/play program.

Thanks, I have taken your code and started investigating; ended with something like this:

#ifdef PLATFORM_POSIX

String CurrentSoundTheme = "freedesktop";

static void LinuxBeep(const char *name)
{
	String fn = "/usr/share/sounds/" + CurrentSoundTheme + "/stereo/dialog-" + name;
	system("play -q  " + fn + (FileExists(fn + ".ogg") ? ".ogg" :
                               FileExists(fn + ".oga") ? ".oga" :
                               FileExists(fn + ".wav") ? ".wav" :
                               ".*")
	       + " >/dev/null 2>/dev/null&");
}

#endif

void BeepInformation()
{
#ifdef PLATFORM_WIN32
	MessageBeep(MB_ICONINFORMATION);
#else
	LinuxBeep("information");
#endif
}

void BeepExclamation()
{
#ifdef PLATFORM_WIN32
	MessageBeep(MB_ICONEXCLAMATION);
#else
	LinuxBeep("warning");
#endif
}

void BeepError()
{
#ifdef PLATFORM_WIN32
	MessageBeep(MB_ICONERROR);
#else
	LinuxBeep("error");
#endif
}

void BeepQuestion()
{
#ifdef PLATFORM_WIN32
	MessageBeep(MB_ICONQUESTION);
#else
	LinuxBeep("question");
#endif
}

then in ChGtk:

	CurrentSoundTheme = GtkStyleString("gtk-sound-theme-name");

seems to work fine, playing sounds from selected theme. So from now on, thanks to you, U++ finally started to beep in Linux Smile

Mirek

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