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    #1

    Play a sound

    I have a UX component which consists of a 10-key pad, I would like a sound to be played each time any button on the keypad is pressed, just a short beep sound. Whats the easiest way to go about this? Ideally, I would like to create apps in the future with specific sounds. Can I create and publish a folder that contains wav or mp3 files that can be called upon?

    This component serves as a time clock which tracks all employees punches, each employee punches in their unique numeric identifier to perform a punch operation, I though it would be nice to have some sound feedback when they use the Touch Screen monitor.
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    #2
    Re: Play a sound

    Interesting question. You could do this with the <audio> tag. Here's a UX with a ViewBox numberpad (swiped from the Alpha Sample Tablet Form app). The sound file is a wav that I put into a folder named "sounds" in my project. Each button press calls the Javascript function playSound() found in the ViewBox control.

    You can just run this in a Browser LivePreview, but make sure you create the sounds folder under the LivePreview folder and your wav file is in the sounds folder.

    The <audio> tag is in a Static Text control. The wav file is also attached.

    ux_KeyPad_Feedback.a5wcmp

    beep-07.zip

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      #3
      Re: Play a sound

      Thank you for the quick reply, I didnt use the viewBox control, i just created 10 separate button controls, i wanted to create a javascript function that each one of these buttons would call to play the sound but did not know how to point to the sound file, nor how to write the javascript code to play the sound file. I added a folder in my webroot named sounds. Let me take a look at the component you uploaded and get back to you.

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        #4
        Re: Play a sound

        It's pretty much the same thing... the javascript function is...

        Code:
        function playSound(){

	var sound = document.getElementById("audioBeep");
	sound.play();
	
}
        The Static Text html is...

        Code:
        <audio id="audioBeep" src="sounds/beep-07.wav" autostart="false" ></audio>
        and you call playSound(); on each button click.

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          #5
          Re: Play a sound

          Eureka! I got it to work just as I wanted. I created three different static text objects with the following:
          Code:
          <audio id="audioBeep" src="../sounds/beep-07.wav" autostart="false" ></audio>
          Code:
          <audio id="PunchAccepted" src="../sounds/PunchSuccess.mp3" autostart="false" ></audio>
          Code:
          <audio id="ErrorUhOh" src="../sounds/ErrorUhOh.wav" autostart="false" ></audio>
          Then declared three javascript functions:
          Code:
          function playSound(){
	var sound = document.getElementById("audioBeep");
	sound.play();	
}

function punchSuccessSound(){
	var sound = document.getElementById("PunchAccepted");
	sound.play();	
}

function errorUhOh(){
	var sound = document.getElementById("ErrorUhOh");
	sound.play();	
}
          Each button on my form calls the playSound() function, then depending on punch success or failure it will call the punchSuccessSound() or errorUhOh() sound.

          Then in the webRoot, I created a folder named Sounds and placed all of my sounds in there. Thank you David for showing that component.

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            #6
            Re: Play a sound

            That's great. The only change I might make is streamlining it a bit more...

            One Static Text control...

            Code:
            <audio id="audioBeep" src="sounds/beep-07.wav" autostart="false" ></audio>
<audio id="PunchAccepted" src="sounds/Beep8.wav" autostart="false" ></audio>
<audio id="ErrorUhOh" src="sounds/Distorted_Message2.wav" autostart="false" ></audio>
            And one Javascript function with a parameter... and a switch statement.

            Code:
            function playSound(sound){

	switch(sound){
		case 'audioBeep':
			var sound = document.getElementById("audioBeep");
			sound.play();
			break;
		case 'errorUhOh':
			var sound = document.getElementById("ErrorUhOh");
			sound.play();
			break;
		case 'punchAccepted':
			var sound = document.getElementById("PunchAccepted");
			sound.play();
			break;
	}		
	
}
            So... a regular button click would call this...

            Code:
            playSound('audioBeep');

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              #7
              Re: Play a sound

              Originally posted by Davidk View Post
              That's great. The only change I might make is streamlining it a bit more...

              One Static Text control...

              Code:
              <audio id="audioBeep" src="sounds/beep-07.wav" autostart="false" ></audio>
<audio id="PunchAccepted" src="sounds/Beep8.wav" autostart="false" ></audio>
<audio id="ErrorUhOh" src="sounds/Distorted_Message2.wav" autostart="false" ></audio>
              And one Javascript function with a parameter... and a switch statement.

              Code:
              function playSound(sound){

	switch(sound){
		case 'audioBeep':
			var sound = document.getElementById("audioBeep");
			sound.play();
			break;
		case 'errorUhOh':
			var sound = document.getElementById("ErrorUhOh");
			sound.play();
			break;
		case 'punchAccepted':
			var sound = document.getElementById("PunchAccepted");
			sound.play();
			break;
	}		
	
}
              So... a regular button click would call this...

              Code:
              playSound('audioBeep');
              Perfect, thank you David.

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                #8
                Re: Play a sound

                Thanks again DK for another great tip, especially the switch case statement as an added bonus on efficiency. I appreciate the extra thought!
                NWCOPRO: Nuisance Wildlife Control Software My Application: http://www.nwcopro.com "Without forgetting, we would have no memory at all...now what was I saying?"

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                  #9
                  Re: Play a sound

                  For a Phone Gap app, I based the sound features off of the Alpha example UX Template, 'PhoneGap - Sound Effects using Native Sounds'.

                  Once you copy the 2 small functions in the main Javascript pane, load the sounds up in the onPhoneGapReady event, you can then easily call any sound loaded (let's say a sound called 'snare') with a simple:

                  Code:
                  playsSound('snare');
                  The sounds are played without delay and are nice, loud and clear. Need to add the Low Latency Audio plugin (cordova-plunin-nativeaudio) because it relies one the native audio API, loading the sounds into memory versus the slower, poorer HTML5 audio. The sounds play so fast that you could build a little drum machine app with it!

                  In my particular situation, a have a bluetooth scanner connected to the device. The user can scan multiple times quite quickly and on the detection of the end of each scan (listening for keycode 13 / Enter), I call a search function to see if the barcode is recognized by our system, if yes, plays fast "success" beep. In not, plays fast negative sounding "buzzer". Without this plugin, the latency would be too high and the users would not understand which action caused which sound.

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                    #10
                    Re: Play a sound

                    Interesting and thanks for the input. In my case, I am using noises for simple button clicks and panelsetactive noises which seems to add a nice flair. I just updated my app this morning and so far it works great.
                    NWCOPRO: Nuisance Wildlife Control Software My Application: http://www.nwcopro.com "Without forgetting, we would have no memory at all...now what was I saying?"

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