make error beep

Jason Quinn wrote on Aug 01, 2008

The new error function is nice but it is silently thown. I prefer to have scripts beep when they encounter an error (frequently I'm on another desktop while a script is running). I end up using code like this in my scripts

if ( error condition )
         {
         beep()
         error(1,"an error occured")
         }

when I'd rather be able to do something like

if ( error condition )
         error(1,"an error occured", beep+)

Is it possible to add a feature like this to error?

This would be a worthwhile extension and could be done without breaking existing code.

Jason

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Aug 01, 2008

Hi Jason,

Perhaps not quite with the syntax you suggest, but there is already an 'erract' environment variable in the ECL that controls behavior in error conditions (e.g. to show the trace or do an automatic flpr), so adding a new 'beep' behavior shouldn't be hard. I'm in the process of building the v2.14.1 patch systems now and will add it to the list.

Cheers,
-Mike

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