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General HydroStatics
Ship Stability Software |
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Command of the Week
(New or interesting aspects of GHS that you may not know about) |
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ERROR (ALARM)
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This handy command enables you to easily add sound effects to your GHS runs.
Why would you want to do that? As the command name suggests, it could be used
to make a noise when an error is encountered.
The full syntax is, ERROR (ALARM) filespec where the named file is a WAV type file or other type of audio file that Windows recognizes. This form of the ERROR command does nothing but play the sound file. It need not be associated with an error. The ERROR (ALARM) thing crept into GHS/GLM to support onboard applications where an audible alarm was desired to warn of certain loading conditions, not errors encountered in processing GHS code. But it could be connected in such a way that if your GHS run encounters a snag, it makes some remark -- preferably something appropriate, not something that startles everyone in the room. When GHS encounters an error, it executes the ESC macro (assuming one exists) instead of just stopping. This gives you an opportunity to do something useful after an error. Also the ERRMSG system variable will be found to contain information about the nature of the error. Below is a bit of code you can copy and paste to your GHS.LF (or make a GHS.LF text file in your GHS program or library folder if one does not exist). |
macro ArmAlarm
macro esc
error (alarm) ^ERROR.WAV
template t "Error" /size:large
"{ERRMSG}"
///
.t
exit noesc
//
macro noesc
macro esc
///
//
set error=-3
/
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To activate it simply execute the ArmAlarm macro. For example, .ArmAlarm could be placed at the top of
any run file. Note that after it handles an error it deletes the ESC macro. Thus it remains inactive until ArmAlarm is executed
again.
This assumes that you have a file named ERROR.WAV in your library or program folder. To get the one we have selected for this purpose, copy and paste the code below to the command line in GHS or BHS. It downloads the WAV file and moves it to your library folder as ERROR.WAV. |
copy "http://www.ghsport.com/cows/025/COW025.WAV" TEMP.WAV
copy TEMP.WAV ^ERROR.WAV
erase TEMP.WAV
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| Obviously you will substitute a different ERROR.WAV and have a lot of fun with this -- if you have nothing better to do. |
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