Hello, Working on putting sound events into Koha 3.2 but it is a bit of a pickle. While I have it working using <embed (embed is the problem, works to a point, but please read below) ... <embed is not the solution for playing the sound My question is *what is?*. Currently the two best candidates are playing with a Java Applet (works very well and loads concurrently so no delay) or Flash, which I have not tested. Basically to get decent sound, we are going to need a plug-in, because web browsers just don't cut it for playing sound in a fast environment. <!-- TMPL_IF NAME="soundon" --> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> if ( get_cookie( "kohastaffsound" ) == "yes" ) { document.write('Sounding...'); document.write('<embed src="/intranet-tmpl/prog/sound/beep.wav" hidden autostart="true" loop="false" />'); } </script> <!-- /TMPL_IF --> in Circulation.tmpl along with a cookie (kohastaffsound) controlled audio on and off (note the syspref "soundon" also) which is set by a toggle button in header.inc (may not be the best place) <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> if ( get_cookie( "kohastaffsound" ) == "yes" ) { document.write('<img src="/intranet-tmpl/prog/img/famfamfam/silk/sound.png" onClick=\'delete_cookie ( "kohastaffsound" ); window.location.reload();\' >'); } else { document.write('<img src="/intranet-tmpl/prog/img/famfamfam/silk/sound_mute.png" onClick=\'set_cookie( "kohastaffsound", "yes", 2020, 01, 01 ); window.location.reload();\' >'); } </script> That is about it, which is fine, except the silly <EMBED is weird and flashes the screen as well as slows everything down. I think if I aim for a very small audio file this could be improved, however, there is a delay with the <embed. With <Embed we have * Firefox 3.6 there is a delay and an entire screen refresh, but works the best. * Chrome 4 there is a delay, then the sound plays late, and it even messes up the formatting * IE8 - worked great- loads quick - , but not so with Firefox which is a must * Opera - Worked the best, very quick load on Circ, but other things did not, unrelated the sound changes It seems one way to get around this is to NOT use Embed, and instead use Java with a class (open source of course) to handle playing a sound on demand. Has anyone else thought about this or experimented. The issue is mainly with the browsers and the lack of support for sound. Using straight javascript to play the sound works worse than embed across the browsers, which is probably why Jquery doesn't have a good sound plug-in. I think the reason sound is important, is so at the *end* of a transaction (check-in / out) there is a beep, to speed up these tasks. Also, when there is an exception on a book (missing barcode) there should be an audible warning. These are often missed, because Koha does not have sound cues, and other ILS systems do. What do you all think? Darrell Ulm _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel