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In the previous thread,
Andreas Raab replied:
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>Well, interestingly the method Beeper class>>beep: never existed (or at
>least I can't find an image with it). The only thing that did exist was
>Object>>beep: (which will work implicitly for requests for "Beeper beep:
>'clink'"). Object>>beep: on the other hand has been deprecated since
>Squeak 3.7. It looks like David finally nuked them in
>39Deprecated-dtl.16 in November.
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Okay. That would explain it.
Now to deal with the problem.
What is the proper way to add bells and whistles?
the removed method says.
beep: soundName
"Make the given sound, unless the making of sound is disabled in Preferences."
self deprecated: 'Use SampledSound>>playSoundNamed: instead.'.
Preferences soundsEnabled
ifTrue: [self playSoundNamed: soundName]
Use SampledSound>>playSoundNamed: instead? Is that still good long term advice?
What I would rather have is a String method such as #asSound or #asSampledSound
which would lookup the sound named after the string or return Beeper default.
Then doing:
" 'click' asSound play "
would work
so would
" 'foo' asSound play. "
This means I can now use the argument as the receiver.
The details can be hidden in the #asSound method.
asSound
^ SampleSound soundNamed: self ifAbsent: [Beeper default] .
The only question left is what category/package should contain it?
Yours in curiotiy and service, --Jerome Peace
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