Is there wa way to make the system beep (ascii 007...bell) via javascript
(or any other simple notification sound)? Thanks, Ike
(or any other simple notification sound)? Thanks, Ike
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Re: playing beep
In article <ra10c.25119$W7 4.18340@newsrea d1.news.atl.ear thlink.net>,
rxv@hotmail.com enlightened us with...[color=blue]
> Is there wa way to make the system beep (ascii 007...bell) via javascript
> (or any other simple notification sound)? Thanks, Ike
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Not the system beep, no. Well, you can call Java to do it but that isn't
cross-browser.
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Re: playing beep
Yes, BUT.....java wont beep anymore under XP (most of what I write is in
java) and you have to jump through some hoops to get there. I think,
however, since I am trying to get the user's attention, perhaps making a
div visible for a brief second....may get attention as well.
....now I just gotta figure out how to do that! Thanks Ike
"kaeli" <tiny_one@NOSPA M.comcast.net> wrote in message
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> In article <ra10c.25119$W7 4.18340@newsrea d1.news.atl.ear thlink.net>,
> rxv@hotmail.com enlightened us with...[color=green]
> > Is there wa way to make the system beep (ascii 007...bell) via[/color][/color]
javascript[color=blue][color=green]
> > (or any other simple notification sound)? Thanks, Ike
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> >
> >[/color]
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> Not the system beep, no. Well, you can call Java to do it but that isn't
> cross-browser.
>
> http://www.rgagnon.com/jsdetails/js-0024.html
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> A lot of money is tainted - It taint yours and it taint mine.
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Re: playing beep
In article <qSR0c.16938$aT 1.5598@newsread 1.news.pas.eart hlink.net>,
rxv@hotmail.com enlightened us with...[color=blue]
> Yes, BUT.....java wont beep anymore under XP (most of what I write is in
> java) and you have to jump through some hoops to get there. I think,
> however, since I am trying to get the user's attention, perhaps making a
> div visible for a brief second....may get attention as well.
>[/color]
Why don't you use an alert then?
If not, why not just make some text flash briefly?
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Re: playing beep
"kaeli" <tiny_one@NOSPA M.comcast.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.1aae4d b399c7fc7a989cd 0@nntp.lucent.c om...[color=blue]
> In article <qSR0c.16938$aT 1.5598@newsread 1.news.pas.eart hlink.net>,
> rxv@hotmail.com enlightened us with...[color=green]
> > Yes, BUT.....java wont beep anymore under XP (most of what I write is in
> > java) and you have to jump through some hoops to get there. I think,
> > however, since I am trying to get the user's attention, perhaps making[/color][/color]
a[color=blue][color=green]
> > div visible for a brief second....may get attention as well.
> >[/color]
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> Why don't you use an alert then?[/color]
Because, it would require the user to have to closeout the alert dialog.
What I want to alert the user of is if some user-specified keywords (such
as his nickname), appear in an inter-office php-based chat, which is
occuring separately in another div. The user may be doing something in a
different div, not seeing the chat, unaware someone is trying to contact him
therein. Yet, I dont want to have to have the user manually closeout
something like an alert dialog - I dont want to interrupt the user to that
extent.[color=blue]
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> If not, why not just make some text flash briefly?[/color]
Yes, that seems like the best idea. How would *you* do that, by putting that
on a sepearate invisible layer, making it visble with a timer, say? Thanks
kaeli.
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> Persons disagreeing with facts are always emotional and
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Re: playing beep
In article <Dz01c.15397$yZ 1.12955@newsrea d2.news.pas.ear thlink.net>, > >[color=blue][color=green]
> > If not, why not just make some text flash briefly?[/color]
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> Yes, that seems like the best idea. How would *you* do that, by putting that
> on a sepearate invisible layer, making it visble with a timer, say? Thanks
> kaeli.
>[/color]
Well, I don't have to support old browsers for most of my stuff, so I'd
have a div like so that "flashed" on and off when the function is
called.
Tested in IE6/NN6
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
<style type="text/css">
#myFlashingDiv {
position: absolute;
top: 30%;
left: 30%;
width: 250px;
height: 250px;
visibility: hidden;
background-color: yellow;
color: red;
font-size: large;
font-weight: bold;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
function flashIt()
{
setTimeout("fla shOn()",500);
setTimeout("fla shOff()",1000);
setTimeout("fla shOn()",1500);
setTimeout("fla shOff()",2000);
setTimeout("fla shOn()",2500);
setTimeout("fla shOff()",3000);
setTimeout("fla shOn()",3500);
setTimeout("fla shOff()",4500);
}
function flashOn()
{
document.getEle mentById("myFla shingDiv").styl e.visibility="v isible";
}
function flashOff()
{
document.getEle mentById("myFla shingDiv").styl e.visibility="h idden";
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="myFlashingD iv">Alert!</div>
<p><a href="noscript. html" onClick="flashI t();return false;">Click to
flash.</a></p>
</body>
</html>
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