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Disassembly of the Apple II Desktop - ProDOS GUI
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Prodos bell G pitch slider #283

Closed I3arana closed 2 years ago

I3arana commented 3 years ago

Request addition to your fine feature of the prodos bell G noise. In general control panel , add a slider that controls the pitch of the bell,(and possibly duration or sustain) handy and nice, especially with accelleration. As in beaglewrite's DeskTop based Desk Acc (check it out)

inexorabletash commented 3 years ago

Out of curiosity, do you frequently do things that invoke the bell?

I almost never run into it when I'm using DeskTop.

I3arana commented 3 years ago

Yes from time to time, deleting locked files, fiddling with gsos files etc

inexorabletash commented 3 years ago

As in beaglewrite's DeskTop based Desk Acc (check it out)

FWIW, BeagleWrite has no relation to DeskTop, and doesn't use MouseGraphics ToolKit - it's got its own graphics library implementation.

Are you referring to the Control Panel accessory? It always seems to crash for me (beeps and exits) when I install it into BeagleWrite and launch it. The other BW DAs seem to run fine - Puzzle, Clock, Calendar, etc. Any ideas?

inexorabletash commented 3 years ago

Good First Bug notes:

This one is tractable, but the challenge is not making the UI too cluttered. We could introduce a Sound control panel DA that changes a setting (clone the Startup DA to see how it's done). Since MGTK doesn't provide controls, a "slider" would need to be implemented by hand, but that's not too difficult.

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There's the possibility to be even more creative here, though. Currently, the different apps (DeskTop, Disk Copy, Selector) all have copies of a 40-byte "Bell" routine that implements the ProDOS bzzt sound. The naive version of this would change a parameter. But what if we got more creative? This could range from adopting a sound routine that had multiple parameters, to defining a "system beep" as an arbitrary $80 bytes of code which is loaded from disk (like the settings block itself), and make the beep user selectable from a preset.

I think MJM's implementation of the IIgs "bonk" fits into $80 bytes: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.apple2/c/bhDLdYXnmnE/m/7JWdhokfztIJ

inexorabletash commented 2 years ago

FWIW, I got the BeagleWrite Control Panel DA working. Looks like it's just a pitch slider. (Again, the BW DAs are not compatible with A2D, just referencing it for comparison)

I'm thinking of something like this:

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I3arana commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your brilliant work and continued contributions on this.By the lions mane!