[Geany] Geany: visual beep

[Matthew Brush]

On 01/13/2012 01:55 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Dimitar Zhekov
> <dimitar.zhekov at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In Geany, we have an option to set "Beep on errors or compilation
>> finished", which results in gdk_beep() or nothing. What do you think
>> about adding a "visual beep" option, which flashes the status bar
>> for a short (250ms default) period of time? Personally I want to
>> receive some signal on errors or end of build commands, but quiet.
>>
>> Writing a visual beep will be easy, and from a few other programs I
>> have used seems noticable enough, without being distracting.
>>
>> --
>>
>> unbeep(): gtk_widget_set_state(statusbar, GTK_STATE_NORMAL)
>>
>> gtk_widget_set_state(statusbar, GTK_STATE_SELECTED)
>> g_timeout_add(user preference, unbeep)
>>
>> (an event box may be required if gtk status bar does not support
>> SELECTED state)
>>
>
> So long as it has a preference to turn it firmly O-F-F
>

We're going to break some sort of record for the maximum number of 
preferences ever used in a single program :)

Cheers,
Matthew Brush