[Gambas-user] R: morse code sound ?

[Caveat]

I have to say I was a little surprised to find no simple play(note, 
duration) or BEEP command built-in.

Could we add this to the wish-list, Benoit? :-)

Kind regards,
Caveat

On 08/02/14 08:55, Randall Morgan wrote:
> I got 5F here. Looking forward to a possible 30F next week.
>
> True the old BASIC machines used the internal speakers, and those are hard
> to find. But almost every *nix box has a sound system. And we no-longer
> need to count clock cycles, we can use the the built-in timing routines or
> delay routines. The Sound and Play function where blocking functions. No
> need for anything fancy. But I do think adding a simple Play freq.,
> duration function would be a great addition to the language and would make
> it more complete. For anything more elaborate there is Sdl and such.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Bruce <bbruen at ...2308...> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 18:15 -0800, Randall Morgan wrote:
>>> It seems like playing a simple tone is something that should be a
>> primitive
>>> in the Gambas Language... A simple Play(frequency, duration) type of
>>> function as was found in many of the early BASIC languages. Am I the only
>>> one who think like this?
>>>
>> Ah yes! But those magical sounds were made by dividing the clock signal
>> and sending the resultant wave directly out to the onboard speaker port.
>> I dont think any of the boxes here have a onboard speaker any more?
>>
>> "Leisure Suit Larry" anyone?
>>
>> cheers
>> Bruce
>>
>> p.s. It's cooled down a bit, only 42C today
>>
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