[duxhelp] Re: Margin Bell
- From: "Peter Sullivan" <peter@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:18:44 -0400
Nice.
Or this one:
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=221
Now how is it that I was on that site for 1/2 hour last Thursday without
finding either of these?
- Peter
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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
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>
> 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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