Re: [Koha] sound cues, plus receipt printing
Hi, Sharon. We're testing checkin/checkout sounds right now on our Koha system and should have it in production within the next week. We've also got direct-to-the-printer receipt printing working, as well, if anyone is interested. Richard Pritsky Carpenter-Carse Library Hinesburg, Vermont www.carpentercarse.org
Message: 2 Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:12:36 -0600 From: Sharon Moreland <smoreland@nekls.org> Subject: [Koha] sound cues To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Cc: nexpresshelp@nekls.org, Royce Kitts <director@tonganoxielibrary.org> Message-ID: <E571F1CF-AF39-407D-8C04-72974064FA67@nekls.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
Hi all, According to a chat I had with Owen on #koha, there has been some discussion of creating sound cues in the staff client with a 'small embedded flash file to play the sound." Our librarians want auditory feedback at both checkin and checkout, so they can interact with the books and patron, rather than looking at the screen after every scan to make sure the transaction was completed successfully. What is the status on this? Is it an enhancement that may be in 3.2?
Sharon Moreland Northeast Kansas Library System NExpress Shared Catalog
We're testing checkin/checkout sounds right now on our Koha system and should have it in production within the next week.
Is this something you've developed in house? There is a bug in Bugzilla tracking this issue, and has some proposed patches included: http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1080 I haven't had time to test it myself, so I'm curious if your solution is based on it. Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org
We're developing it in house, although my programmer guy may have looked at the bug. I'll check with him. :) Richard Carpenter-Carse Library PO BOX 127 Hinesburg, VT 05461 802-482-2878 www.carpentercarse.org On Mon, November 10, 2008 10:28 am, Owen Leonard wrote:
We're testing checkin/checkout sounds right now on our Koha system and should have it in production within the next week.
Is this something you've developed in house? There is a bug in Bugzilla tracking this issue, and has some proposed patches included:
http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1080
I haven't had time to test it myself, so I'm curious if your solution is based on it.
Owen
-- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org
I am interested in both of your items... What did you do to get the sounds to work and the printing? Are you a LibLime customer? David Schuster carpentercarselibrary wrote:
Hi, Sharon. We're testing checkin/checkout sounds right now on our Koha system and should have it in production within the next week.
We've also got direct-to-the-printer receipt printing working, as well, if anyone is interested.
Richard Pritsky Carpenter-Carse Library Hinesburg, Vermont www.carpentercarse.org
Message: 2 Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:12:36 -0600 From: Sharon Moreland <smoreland@nekls.org> Subject: [Koha] sound cues To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Cc: nexpresshelp@nekls.org, Royce Kitts <director@tonganoxielibrary.org> Message-ID: <E571F1CF-AF39-407D-8C04-72974064FA67@nekls.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
Hi all, According to a chat I had with Owen on #koha, there has been some discussion of creating sound cues in the staff client with a 'small embedded flash file to play the sound." Our librarians want auditory feedback at both checkin and checkout, so they can interact with the books and patron, rather than looking at the screen after every scan to make sure the transaction was completed successfully. What is the status on this? Is it an enhancement that may be in 3.2?
Sharon Moreland Northeast Kansas Library System NExpress Shared Catalog
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carpentercarselibrary@gmavt.net wrote:
Hi, Sharon. We're testing checkin/checkout sounds right now on our Koha system and should have it in production within the next week.
We've also got direct-to-the-printer receipt printing working, as well, if anyone is interested.
Sound cues, receipt printing... and I've got RFID tag modification. Do we need a general RFC for all these post-circulation hooks and clarify the best ways to extend Koha in 3.2? I agree with Rick that Flash should be avoided. But I think we should be phasing out the mandatory Javascript and I'm in a minority there ;-) Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237
"Owen Leonard" <oleonard@myacpl.org> wrote:
I agree with Rick that Flash should be avoided.
MJ, do you have an opinion about what the best alternative is? An embedded ogg file?
It sounds like embedded wav is the most widely-supported one today. Ogg files may become more useful if an ogg-using <video> gets into one of the html-related standards. Then again, officially, the librarian interface only supports Firefox-based browsers fully at present, doesn't it? I guess we could be too clever for our own good and allow different librarians to pick different file types for cues, which might help people who want the screen to flash instead of a noise... but maybe a unified extension system is neater for that too. -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237
MJ, do you have an opinion about what the best alternative is? An embedded ogg file?
It sounds like embedded wav is the most widely-supported one today.
Maybe someone could work up a test page and we could get input from folks on the list on their experience with it? -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org> wrote:
MJ, do you have an opinion about what the best alternative is? An embedded ogg file?
It sounds like embedded wav is the most widely-supported one today.
Maybe someone could work up a test page and we could get input from folks on the list on their experience with it?
-- Owen
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Here's an example autostarted embedded wav (not by me): http://home.att.net/~cherokee68/wavembed.html I know that this should work on a base installation of Ubuntu, since it includes the Totem plugin with Firefox. -- Jesse Weaver Software Developer, LibLime
Jesse Weaver wrote:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org <mailto:oleonard@myacpl.org>> wrote: Maybe someone could work up a test page and we could get input from folks on the list on their experience with it?
Here's an example autostarted embedded wav (not by me):
http://home.att.net/~cherokee68/wavembed.html
I know that this should work on a base installation of Ubuntu, since it includes the Totem plugin with Firefox.
This works fine on Mac OS X using Mozilla and Safari. cheers rickw -- _________________________________ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services No good deed goes unpunished. -- Clare Boothe Luce
MJ Ray wrote:
But I think we should be phasing out the mandatory Javascript and I'm in a minority there ;-)
Horse for courses. If JS is *actually* required to get the job done, then fine. But rarely is that the case. I've seen far too many cases of JS misuses where HTML would have suffices. Even Java, when HTML would suffice! cheers rickw -- _________________________________ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Tis the dream of each programmer before his life is done, To write three lines of APL and make the damn thing run.
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