[Koha] sound cues

Jesse Weaver jesse.weaver at liblime.com
Wed Nov 12 09:28:19 NZDT 2008


On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Mason James <mason.loves.sushi at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On 2008/11/11, at 8:51 AM, Chris Cormack wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:20 AM, Nicole Engard
> > <nicole.engard at liblime.com> wrote:
> >> Sharon,
> >>
> >> I have heard other Koha users ask for the same thing - but I haven't
> >> seen any documentation or an RFC for it.
> >>
> >>
> > Kapiti District Library here in NZ had this, I'm not sure if they
> > still do.
> >
> > Mason might be able to answer.
> >
>
>
> hiya folks,
>
> yes, Kapiti do indeed have an 'audio-cues' mod on their koha.
>
> a quick look in the tmpl files seems to indicate a simple <embed> tag
> doing the magic, woo!...
>
>
> <!-- TMPL_IF Name="good_return" -->
>     <!-- Play a sound if the item was returned properly -->
>         <EMBED SRC="<!-- TMPL_VAR NAME='themelang' -->/includes/
> sounds/ding.wav"
>              type="audio/wav" autostart=true hidden=true loop=1
> height=60 width=128 </embed>
> <!-- /TMPL_IF -->
>
> this 'just-works' on my firefox3, at least
>
> hopefully, the above example should be a good start to your success,
> happy ding-ing... :)
>
> Mason.
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I've added sound cues to my library's installation of Koha as well, though
only for our AJAX batch item delete tool.

<embed> seems to work well, and apparently can even be portably scripted
(useful for AJAX apps).

-- 
Jesse Weaver
Software Developer, LibLime
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