I have to say I was a little surprised to find no simple play(note, duration) or BEEP command built-in.
Could we add this to the wish-list, Benoit? :-) Kind regards, Caveat On 08/02/14 08:55, Randall Morgan wrote: > I got 5F here. Looking forward to a possible 30F next week. > > True the old BASIC machines used the internal speakers, and those are hard > to find. But almost every *nix box has a sound system. And we no-longer > need to count clock cycles, we can use the the built-in timing routines or > delay routines. The Sound and Play function where blocking functions. No > need for anything fancy. But I do think adding a simple Play freq., > duration function would be a great addition to the language and would make > it more complete. For anything more elaborate there is Sdl and such. > > > > > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Bruce <bbr...@paddys-hill.net> wrote: > >> On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 18:15 -0800, Randall Morgan wrote: >>> It seems like playing a simple tone is something that should be a >> primitive >>> in the Gambas Language... A simple Play(frequency, duration) type of >>> function as was found in many of the early BASIC languages. Am I the only >>> one who think like this? >>> >> Ah yes! But those magical sounds were made by dividing the clock signal >> and sending the resultant wave directly out to the onboard speaker port. >> I dont think any of the boxes here have a onboard speaker any more? >> >> "Leisure Suit Larry" anyone? >> >> cheers >> Bruce >> >> p.s. It's cooled down a bit, only 42C today >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications >> Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. >> Read the Whitepaper. >> >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >> _______________________________________________ >> Gambas-user mailing list >> Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user