[duxhelp] Re: Margin Bell
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- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:33:45 -0400
How about http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=13722.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Sullivan
> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 10:57 AM
> To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [duxhelp] Re: Margin Bell
>
> George,
>
> Starting with beta 5, the default tone should come through
> the sound card, not the PC speaker. And, at least on my
> computer, it does.
>
> If you (or anybody) knows of a good "ding" sound that is
> redistributable, we can package that into DBT. We can even
> pay for it, provided there's not royalty arrangement.
> (There's no way we're getting into a royalty agreement for a
> ding sound.) My own searches didn't turn up any appropriate
> sounds, so we're using a sine wave tone generated in code at runtime.
>
> One thing that you forgot in your explanation is that any
> non-zero number is interpreted as a count of cells from the
> right margin at which to sound the margin bell. Thus, the
> larger the number the sooner the bell sounds.
>
> - Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of George Bell
> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 4:57 AM
> To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [duxhelp] Margin Bell
>
> In the hope I'm not teaching too many grandmothers how to
> suck eggs, I thought I'd add an explanation about the
> enhanced margin Bell feature.
>
> Essentially, when you are entering a braille document, you
> have the option to set a margin bell in the same way as you
> have on a Perkins Brailler.
> This is done via the Global menu, View Preferences dialog
> where you can set a position at which the bell will sound.
> To disable this, set it to zero.
>
> But in actual fact, it's not a bell, but a not very exciting
> beep which usually comes through the PC's internal speaker.
>
> However if you place a wave file called "margin.wav" into the
> Duxbury program folder - in the case of Beta 5, probably:-
> c:\Program Files\Duxbury\DBT 10.6 (Beta 5) it will play this instead.
>
> You can use almost any .wav file you like, and in the case of
> the attached, I found one on my system called "ding.wav",
> copied it to the above folder, and renamed it to
> "margin.wav". Now it sounds just like a Perkins.
>
> I'm sure many teachers will see the potential here when
> teaching 6 key entry of using different bell sounds for their
> students, if only to brighten up the lesson.
>
> George.
>
>
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