Message arrives - make a sound

[Moriarty]

Per the subject, when you get an in-game message, could the game make a sound? It's very easy currently to miss messages if your attention is else-where. A quiet, unobtrusive yet not-missible sound is what I'm thinking.

[wickedgenius]

This needs to be mde so that it can easily be turned off becuase there can be a large number of mesages if not continuous.

Oh and wih my knowledge of BASIC I would say that this probably won't be too much work but I don't know how different C is to BASIC

[Moriarty]

When I say message I mean the chat messages you get in multi-player, not the in-game news messages.

And yes, I suppose it should be turn-offable.
It's unlikely to be more work than adding a call to the sound library with a reference to the relevent sound. It would actually be more work to create a decent sound. Unfortunately I can't help with either.

[sickie]

Well, I made a sound right now, exclusively for this topic
I never played in multiplayer, so I do not know exactly what kind of sound would I want. But you can do whatever you want with this sound, edit to suit you better, use it somewhere else, comment it or puke on it . If needed, I can correct something or I can make a new one. It's all up to you.
As for the license, it's just a stupid sound so I do not retain any copyright on it, I put it in public domain. I hope that a text file with license is not needed and that's enough for me to say it here

[sickie]

and this is a little smoother version although it seems that there is not that much interest in this. Or maybe my ugly sound made everyone to close their browser

[athanasios]

Play it faster and repeatedly and we 've got a sound for a gun!

[sickie]

So maybe I should wait for OpenGTA and contribute sounds to them :D

[Moriarty]

It's an interesting sound, but I don't think it'd go well with OTTD.
Maybe just a subdued beep would work. It already has repeating beeps for summarised messages.

I hope that a text file with license is not needed

If you put it in the public domain then no, you don't need to do anything else.

But thanks anyway.

[sickie]

If someone can explain to me what a subdued beep would mean, than I can make another sound. I do not care if any of my sounds would ever get in OpenTTD (or TTDP or wherever or just remain here, sitting alone in this topic ), you want it, I make it

[Moriarty]

Heh. Well I sort of figured "subdued beep" was self explanatory. And it's only what I think would work. I'm not exactly a sound-knowing guy.