[Xastir] Feature in Xastir (Festival Alert Interface)

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, William McKeehan wrote:

> How about a new interface for the Festival alerts.
>
> I see two dialog boxes
>
> File -> Configure -> Speach would give the first dialog box similar to the
> Interface Preferences dialog box. This box would list the alerts that have
> been "added", would allow you to add/delete/update alerts. (Maybe this is more
> than just festival, maybe it's alerts in general.)
>
> The add box would popup the second dialog where you specify the type of alert.
> I think being able to choose the type of alert (New Station, New Message, Band
> Opening, Weather, Proximity, Bulletins, Own Objects, Own Weather Data,
> Incoming Data, etc, etc), specify the proximity (min/max distance) and specify
> the content of the message (built from a list of attributes available based on
> the type of object choosen), and finally, the message delivery mechanism
> (i.e., dialog box, play wave, speak, etc.).
>
> How does that sound? Does anyone think this would be a good idea? Hard or easy
> to implement?
>
> Should it get added to the Feature request list?

Up to you.  Anyone can add things to it, and to the bug report.  You
can also add comments to other people's reports.

Ken is the Festival guy, so he gets first crack at saying yay or nay
to it.  Get any of the (now 13!) developers interested in your idea
and it'll likely get implemented.

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