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authorBarry Warsaw <barry@python.org>1999-04-28 19:32:46 (GMT)
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Add a scale widget and command line options to set the output volume.
Bump version number 1.0
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@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ Version: 0.1
Introduction
- Audiopy is a program to control the Solaris audio device, allowing
- you to set both the input and output devices. It can be run
- either as a standalone command-line script, or as a Tkinter based
- GUI application.
+ Audiopy is a program to control the Solaris audio device, allowing
+ you to choose both the input and output devices, and to set the
+ output volume. It can be run either as a standalone command-line
+ script, or as a Tkinter based GUI application.
Note that your version of Python must have been built with the
sunaudiodev module enabled. It is not enabled by default however!
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ Introduction
devices: the headphone jack, the speakers, or the line-out jack.
You can enable any combination of these three devices.
+ You can also set the output gain (volume) level.
+
Running as a GUI
Simply start audiopy with no arguments to start it as a Tkinter
@@ -43,11 +45,11 @@ Running as a GUI
Alt-q is also an accelerator for selecting Quit from the File
menu.
- No unsupported devices will appear in the GUI. When run as a GUI,
- audiopy monitors the audio device and automatically updates its
- display if the state of the device is changed by some other
- means. In pre-Python 1.5.2 this is done by occasionally polling
- the device, but in Python 1.5.2 no polling is necessary (you don't
+ Unsupported devices will appear dimmed out in the GUI. When run
+ as a GUI, audiopy monitors the audio device and automatically
+ updates its display if the state of the device is changed by some
+ other means. In Python 1.5.2 this is done by occasionally polling
+ the device, but in Python 1.5.2 no polling is necessary (you don't
really need to know this, but I thought I'd plug 1.5.2 :-).
Running as a Command Line Program
@@ -85,7 +87,13 @@ Running as a Command Line Program
% ./audiopy -s=0 -p=1 -c
- Audiopy understands two other command line options:
+ Audiopy understands these other command line options:
+
+ --gain volume
+ -g volume
+ Sets the output volume to the specified gain level. This must
+ be an integer between MIN_GAIN and MAX_GAIN (usually [0..255],
+ but use the -h option to find the exact values).
--version
-v