Recently I tried to implement a "Beep" sound to my code, I tried it with winsound.Beep(), but I have the beep disabled on my computer. Then i tried it with winsound.PlaySound('Test.wav', winsound.SND_FILENAME ), but when I run the code I only hear the windows background sound and not the actual sound.
winsound.PlaySound() is always going to play something, unless you explicitly add the SND_NODEFAULT flag. Your Test.wav file apparently doesn't exist in the current directory, or isn't in a format that Windows can read, so you're getting a default sound instead.
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So, the shop where I work use Excel 4.0 for all its inventory management and orders.
Since the guy before me left without explaining anything, I inherited an old system that works, but is... eh.
The bosses don't want to change to a new Excel nor another program, so I must do what I can with what I have.
Now, I've made a script in python 2.5.4 (this version is needed because the newer versions won't work on the Windows 98 computer they use...) to automate some processes that would be impossible with Excel 4.0 macros, and the script works perfectly for what I need.
But since the bosses want to "only work with Excel", and won't want to go outside of Excel and click the script icon to start it (or, heaven forbid, open cmd and start it manually), I would need to put a button in Excel to start the script.
I've tried to sift through the macros available, but except perhaps "Initiate" (which I don't wholly understand as of now), I can't think of a macro to interact with the script, and haven't found much help with what's available online...
SO, could anyone please help me in making the macro for the button? The only thing the button would need to do is to start the python script, there's no other interactions needed, the rest is done by the script.
Like, the script "foo.py" is in the same folder as "bar.xls", and I only need a button in "bar.xls" to launch "foo.py".
Thanks.
Okay, I found a roundabout way, so I'm gonna share it with y'all.
MacroName
=LAUNCH("cmd",1)
=SEND.KEYS("foo.py~";TRUE)
=SEND.KEYS("exit~")
=RETURN()
It opens a cmd instance, show it for a split second (can't use SEND.KEYS without it being the active app), writes the name of the python script and presses enter, before quitting.
I would like if it didn't need to show the cmd window, but it works for now. Perhaps there'll be another way, but if anyone else wanna do what I did, it does work.
You probably need to get the book out - Excel 4 came with one book called the Function Reference which listed all the commands available.
Commands that we used back in the day were:
EXEC: starts another program
EXECUTE: runs commands in another program called by Initiate
INITIATE: sets a channel to a program
SEND.KEYS: sends keystrokes to a program (we used to send data to a slow server this way...)
Not sure what will be on the web for Excel macro 4, it was retired as vba came out and Excel moved over...
I still use my copy of the book, but it would be worth finding, although the help should list the commands as well. I just used the book as I had macros running...
I am using winsound to play a swoosh sound:
winsound.PlaySound("D:\GamesImade\pythonpong\bounce.wav", winsound.SND_ASYNC)
When I run it with my IDE it works. But if I run the exe file by itself it doesn't work, it plays the windows error sound.
I had a line of code that was supposed to run at a certain point and the code was accurately recognizing when the sound was supposed to be played, but it was only playing a windows error sound.
I changed the code from:
winsound.PlaySound("sound.wav", winsound.SND_ASYNC)
To:
winsound.PlaySound('C:/Users/username/OneDrive/Desktop/Project Folder/sound.wav', winsound.SND_ASYNC)
So, like the answer I switched the slashes around, but kept the SND_ASYNC and that runs in the program.
try changing the flag shown below and also the backslash to forward slash
winsound.PlaySound("D:\GamesImade\pythonpong\bounce.wav", winsound.SND_ASYNC)
to
winsound.PlaySound("D:/GamesImade/pythonpong/bounce.wav", winsound.SND_FILENAME)
I am trying to make my own music player with Python, and after looking at alternatives, I've settled on using pygame's mixer.music to actually play the audio. (I've used pygame before, just usually for actual games) I was looking at playsound instead until I realized I needed a way to play the next song once one is done, as well as the ability to play and pause the audio. I also need to play mp3 files instead of the wavs that most alternatives require.
I actually got it working perfectly originally, until I tried adding other unrelated features, and now it's saying:
File "main.py", line 66, in playCurrentSong
mixer.load(path.join(museDir, currentSong))
pygame.error: Error reading the stream. (code 18)
(museDir is my variable for the directory that music files are in, and mixer is my variable for pygame.mixer.music as a shorthand)
I cannot figure out for the life of me why it's giving me this error now, as it played the audio perfectly fine before. My code is here: https://pastebin.com/V7nAfmK6
If a solution only works on a certain operating system, my final OS will be Linux, on a Rasperry Pi, but I'm trying to write and test the code on Windows. However, if that's not possible, I understand.
Thank you beforehand for any and all help; this is giving me a headache.
I just found the source of the problem.
Before the error popped up, I had been trying to mess around with the metadata of the mp3 files in order to incorporate a genre system into the player, but nothing was working. I eventually decided to use csv files for that instead.
I must have done something wrong however when I was messing around with that metadata because I looked at the mp3s in File Explorer, and they were all 0 bytes. That's why pygame couldn't read the stream: there wasn't one! I plugged the pygame stuff back in, replaced the mp3s with new ones, and it works just fine now.
Thanks for the help anyway though, Torxed!
I have been all over the web looking for a solution to this problem!
I'm looking for a way to make my VLC window "click through" on linux.
I have found some python code here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11917174/3426514 that says it can solve the problem, but I dont know how to apply that answer to my VLC window.
Is there a way to make a bash script that i can execute after vlc has started that will make the vlc window click-through? Or anything else, like a CCM plugin or a vlc plugin or magic foo?
I'm on ubuntu 14.04 if that is helpful :)
Edit: Another implemetation, part of the notifications code:
https://github.com/dkasak/notify-osd-customizable/blob/master/src/bubble.c#L1608
Edit2: A SVG Implementation, dont think this applies, but it is kinda relevant https://superuser.com/questions/699289/making-cairo-clock-click-through-able-cairo-graphics
Edit3: The used to be a compiz plugin called ghost a long long time ago https://github.com/compiz-reloaded/compiz-plugins-experimental
Edit4: To address the downvote to close: I expect the actual code to do this would be a few lines at most, i just have no clue how to do it. If there is something that I can provide to narrow the focus or provide more information, I will gladly do so.
Edit 5: Another related question. Create a click through window for Linux
You can have VLC write to the desktop background, then set all your app windows to be partially transparent. Output to Background is a VLC option. What you want is backwards from that, where VLC is overlayed on top of everything else, but ignored for user input, however if you don't mind going the other way, it's "already in there" 8-)
I am trying to make some Beep noises with the winsound.Beep command. However when I am using winsound.Beep(500, 500) I do not hear anything. With winsound.MessageBeep and winsound.PlaySound however, I DO get to play sounds. Any ideas what I should do?
What I am trying to do: I want to write a little practicing program for training intervals: the computer sounds a first tone, then a second tone and you will have to guess what the tone interval is. For this I need pitched tones, tones for which I can set the frequency. I want to keep it as simple as possible, any pitched sound will do. I do not want to have to collect a set of .wav files or whatever. I want to make use of a tone generator which I think is available on most soundcards. winsound.Beep seems like something that can do this trick, but any other suggestions are welcome.
I had the exact same problem. winsound.Beep used to work just fine and then it suddenly stopped working (or that's what I thought). The problem was that someone (or some update) had turned off the System sounds, which prevented windows from playing the Beep sound, either manually or through my program. Try right clicking on the Speaker symbol, Open volume mixer and check whether System sounds is off or minimum volume.
I hope that helps!
Are you sure that your computer has a beep? A lot of recent computer remove the beep because it was annoying and most computer today have soundcard to play wav sound instead (the other sound that you are able to play).
You can also check to validate if it's activated on this page
IMO, I think that using the beep for other things than debugging is not a good idea.
EDIT
Mayby you can try this code to create a sound using a base wav with synth algorythm