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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0037997 | FPC | RTL | public | 2020-10-27 16:44 | 2020-10-28 07:36 |
| Reporter | Mark Morgan Lloyd | Assigned To | Sven Barth | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | won't fix | ||
| Platform | All | OS | Linux | ||
| Product Version | 3.2.1 | ||||
| Summary | 0037997: FPC on Linux has no beep facility | ||||
| Description | While the standard Windows API includes an entry point to make a simple noise, such a thing does not exist for Linux or the standard widgetsets. However ALSA is widely installed and generally speaking can be used to beep either from a character mode or GUI (Lazarus/LCL) program. This might be subject to having an additional distro-level package such as asoundlib-dev installed in order to set up a symlink, but this type of problem has also afflicted database libraries for a long time. | ||||
| Additional Information | Please consider incorporating the dynamic-linking library and the simpler waveform generator from the .zip attached into the RTL for Linux. Tested on x86_64, believed OK for x86, probably others. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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| FPCTarget | - | ||||
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I bet on won't fix. Use whichever you want: fcl-process fcl-sound (open /dev/dsp and play waveform) matroska oggvorvis SDL sndfile .... tired |
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This has been done to death in the forums. Writing a bell character only works if a program has been started by a shell and is "close" to a terminal manager that knows about such things (Konsole on KDE, as one example). /dev/dsp is OSS hence obsolete (there's approximate equivalents in /dev/snd but at that point but no immediate indication of which is the best or default device). Any form of player program is highly undesirable. ALSA is the basic sound handler, elements of which are integrated with the kernel. It's been a long slog from various people, but the .zip includes a cut-down interface to the standard ALSA library which avoids the version-specific issues that challenge more complete implementations. My preference would be to use XDG (and/or D-Bus etc.) facilities to do this, since this would allow notifications to be tailored by the desktop environment's thematicisation. So far neither I nor anybody else has found a way of doing this. |
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XDG - means Desktop environment bound API. Here is GNOME XDG sound theme handling: http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/#overview KDE has its own whistles. |
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As I've said on the Forum, the RTL will not get a dependency on something like that just to get a beep out. If you want it, create a separate, self contained unit that can be added as a package unit and that adjusts OnBeep inside its initialization. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2020-10-27 16:44 | Mark Morgan Lloyd | New Issue | |
| 2020-10-27 16:44 | Mark Morgan Lloyd | File Added: beep_trunk.zip | |
| 2020-10-27 17:43 | Anton Kavalenka | Note Added: 0126586 | |
| 2020-10-27 17:43 | Anton Kavalenka | File Added: beep.pas | |
| 2020-10-27 21:00 | Mark Morgan Lloyd | Note Added: 0126587 | |
| 2020-10-27 21:27 | Anton Kavalenka | Note Added: 0126588 | |
| 2020-10-28 07:36 | Sven Barth | Assigned To | => Sven Barth |
| 2020-10-28 07:36 | Sven Barth | Status | new => resolved |
| 2020-10-28 07:36 | Sven Barth | Resolution | open => won't fix |
| 2020-10-28 07:36 | Sven Barth | FPCTarget | => - |
| 2020-10-28 07:36 | Sven Barth | Note Added: 0126599 |
