RE: Mac OS X Alert Sound
RE: Mac OS X Alert Sound
- Subject: RE: Mac OS X Alert Sound
- From: Hellum Timothy <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 12:17:56 -0400
Is opening your script in ResEdit and embedding your sound in the script
an option?
Timothy Hellum
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From: Richard Glaser
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Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 8:51 PM
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To: email@hidden
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Subject: Mac OS X Alert Sound
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My main question right now deals with Applescript, and I can't seem
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to find anyone trying to do the same thing as me! I know that I can
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use Applescript to play the current alert sound via the "beep"
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command. What I'd like to do is play any sound that is in the native
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sound format (in OS 9 it's System7 Sounds; in OS X I assume it's AIFF
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since that's what the alerts are). Do you know if this is possible?
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If it's not possible directly I am considering the ugly work around
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of changing the alert sound temporarily, giving the beep command, and
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then changing the alert sound back again. If I go this route,
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however, I don't know how to tell System Preferences to do what I
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want because there is no Dictionary available for System Prefs in X.
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Any suggestions? Or other work arounds?
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