Subj : make the bbs machine beep
To : Veetid
From : Spaceman Spiff
Date : Sun Aug 26 2001 04:32 pm
RE: make the bbs machine beep
BY: Veetid to All on Fri Jul 20 2001 01:22 am
> I've programmed a baja mod that jazzes up the sysop pager.. it's mostly
> cosmetic, but there are a few handy features.. asks why the person wants to
> page the sysop, logs the reason., etc..
>
> Question is.. what would be the best way to make the bbs machine beep on the
> sysop's end? sending beeps to the user is simple.. use the @beep@ code.. but
> want to hear it on the bbs machine too..
>
> I'm sure there are workarounds.. but I'm looking for something to just beep
> as my percent-o-meter goes up during the page.. nothing fancy..
>
> |04����|07 veetid
>
>
> ..."What?!? This isn't the Files section?!?"
>
I went into SBBS config,
External Sysop Chat Pagers
[Insert] a new one
Command Line %!mplayer2 sysopage.wav
Access Requirements Level 50
you could do this with any requirement or user flag,
people worthy of getting your attention can get a level or flag that triggers a
specific WAV to play.
You could set up a bunch of wavs for new users, friends and family...
you really don't have to go into baja, but you may still be able to execute an
external program from in a baja script, I haven't played with it.
Oh the above command line, I think I put a copy of mplayer2.exe into my exec
directory with the wav files.
hope this helps.
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Ok, after checking this out I found my pager stopped working, It used to work
as is, I am now running SBBS 3.1b .....
I changed my program to call from mplayer2 to mediaplayer and it still would
not work, I looked at the properties of the file sysopager2.wav and found media
player was looking for it in C:\SBBS\CTRL not EXEC like I had it, so I moved
a copy of the wav file to the SBBS\ctrl\ directory and it works again.
I am not sure what happened here. But this seemed to fix the problem.
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