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- audiopy - a program to control the Solaris audio device.
-
- Contact: Barry Warsaw
- Email: bwarsaw@python.org
- 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.
-
- Note that your version of Python must have been built with the
- sunaudiodev module enabled. It is not enabled by default however!
- You will need to edit your Modules/Setup file, uncomment the
- sunaudiodev module spec line and rebuild Python.
-
- Using audiopy, you can select one of three possible input devices:
- the microphone, the line-in jack, or the CD in. These choices are
- mutually exclusive; you can only have one active input device at
- any one time (this is enforced by the underlying device). Some
- input devices may not be supported on all Solaris machines.
-
- You can also choose to enable any of the three possible output
- devices: the headphone jack, the speakers, or the line-out jack.
- You can enable any combination of these three devices.
-
- Running as a GUI
-
- Simply start audiopy with no arguments to start it as a Tkinter
- based GUI application. It will pop up a window with two sections:
- the top portion contains three radio buttons indicating your
- selected input device; the bottom portion contains three
- checkboxes indicating your selected output devices.
-
- Note the underlined characters in the button labels. These
- indicate keyboard accelerators so that pressing Alt+character you
- can select that device. For example, Alt-s toggles the Speaker
- device. The Alt accelerators are the same as those you'd use in
- as the short-form command line switches (see below).
-
- 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
- really need to know this, but I thought I'd plug 1.5.2 :-).
-
- Running as a Command Line Program
-
- You can run audiopy from the command line to select any
- combination of input or output device, by using the command line
- options. Actually, any option forces audiopy to run as a command
- line program and not display its GUI.
-
- Options have the general form
-
- --device[={0,1}]
- -d[-{0,1}]
-
- meaning there is both a long-form and short-form of the switch,
- where `device' or `d' is one of the following:
-
- (input)
- microphone -- m
- linein -- i
- cd -- c
-
- (output)
- headphones -- p
- speaker -- s
- lineout -- o
-
- When no value is given, the switch just toggles the specified
- device. With a value, 0 turns the device off and 1 turns the
- device on. Any other value is an error.
-
- For example, to turn the speakers off, turn the headphones on, and
- toggle the cd input device, run audiopy from the command line like
- so:
-
- % ./audiopy -s=0 -p=1 -c
-
- Audiopy understands two other command line options:
-
- --version
- -v
- Print the version number and exit
-
- --help
- -h
- Print a help message and exit
-
-
-
- Local Variables:
- indent-tabs-mode: nil
- End:
-