nopuklic@ndsuvax.UUCP (Blayne Puklich) (08/27/89)
Does anyone know of an application/cdev/INIT/DA/whatever which will either inverse the menu bar or somehow flash the screen when the phone rings? I have this habit of programming or writing while listening to deafening music through headphones, so I can't hear the phone ring. I can see it using a terminal emulation application, but the little "RING" messages I don't see. Something that possibly deaf people may use could be helpful. I have two Macs networked side-by-side, so it doesn't have to run in the background. I sure would appreciate any ideas on how to get a visual response to phone ringing that I could notice out of the corner of my eye. I don't really want to write one; anything already available would be best. Thanks for any help. ||+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++|| || Blayne Puklich nopuklic@Plains.NoDak.EDU "I think I'm going || || NDSU Student ACM nopuklic@ndsuvax.BITNET bald..." || || Vice-Chairperson NU087763@NDSUVM1.BITNET -- Rush, from Caress || || North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND of Steel, 1975 || || (701) 237-4408 || || "Corvettes are the best thing man has ever invented." || ||-------------------------------------------------------------------------||
emuroga@m.cs.uiuc.edu (08/28/89)
/* Written 5:51 pm Aug 26, 1989 by nopuklic@ndsuvax.UUCP in m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac */ /* ---------- "Phone Ring Detection" ---------- */ Does anyone know of an application/cdev/INIT/DA/whatever which will either inverse the menu bar or somehow flash the screen when the phone rings? I have this habit of programming or writing while listening to deafening music through headphones, so I can't hear the phone ring. I can see it using a terminal emulation application, but the little "RING" messages I don't see. Something that possibly deaf people may use could be helpful. I have two Macs networked side-by-side, so it doesn't have to run in the background. I sure would appreciate any ideas on how to get a visual response to phone ringing that I could notice out of the corner of my eye. I don't really want to write one; anything already available would be best. Thanks for any help. ||+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++|| || Blayne Puklich nopuklic@Plains.NoDak.EDU "I think I'm going || || NDSU Student ACM nopuklic@ndsuvax.BITNET bald..." || || Vice-Chairperson NU087763@NDSUVM1.BITNET -- Rush, from Caress || || North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND of Steel, 1975 || || (701) 237-4408 || || "Corvettes are the best thing man has ever invented." || ||-------------------------------------------------------------------------|| /* End of text from m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac */ Attach plastic explosive to the phone ringer leads.... ...ok, not such a good idea..;-) I have seen phones with a light that flashes along with the ringer. Maybe Radio Shack might even have separate flashing- light ringers. This would work even if your computer wasn't on...you could set the light on your desk by your monitor. Eisuke Muroga Department of Computer Science | 1304 W. Springfield Ave. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana, IL 61801 ARPA emuroga@m.cs.uiuc.edu CSNET emuroga@uiuc.csnet USENET uiucdcs!uiucdcsm!emuroga BITNET emuroga%m.cs.uiuc.edu@uiucvmd.bitnet
adam@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Adam Glass) (08/29/89)
In article <8400152@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, emuroga@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes: > Does anyone know of an application/cdev/INIT/DA/whatever which will either > inverse the menu bar or somehow flash the screen when the phone rings? Perhaps this was discussed already, perhaps not. One was just posted to the mac-binaries newsgroup, but, I might add, it doesn't work on my II/ PM2400SA setup. Perhaps there's an INIT conflict, but I'm not so sure... *I'd* really like one too. If anyone has a *working* phone ring detecter (in software -- I know I can go to Radio Shack and get a "Fone Flasher" -- that's not what I want (it's too easy)). Adam -- "He didn't fall? Inconceivable!" Internet email: adam@media-lab.media.mit.edu "You keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means." (All stolen quotes taken from The Princess Bride) Hmm... 18 spaces left. Moof!