42212 - Windows notification of Mozilla alerts

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 463209

(Core :: XUL, enhancement, P3)

Description

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BuildID:    2000060820

Standard Windows message boxes will beep if sounds have been defined for them in 
Control Panel/Sounds. (The hard work is done by the MessageBeep function.)

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose a new document in Netscape Composer.
2. Close without saving. The prompt should beep.
3. Compose a new document in Mozilla.
4. Close without saving.

Actual Results:  The prompt does not beep.

Expected Results:  The prompt should beep.

If SystemParametersInfo( SPI_GETBEEP, 0, &bBeep, 0 ) returns TRUE in bBeep, 
Windows will also beep on unmatched hot keys in menus and dialogs.

Comment 1

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

True. Also applies on Mac and (probably) Unix, though obviously using different 
mechanisms. So --> All/All, and pp because a different implementation is required 
on each platform.

Comment 2

[Peter Trudelle]

no time to add new features in this cycle, moving to future

Comment 3

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Bug 53345 is covering Mac OS environment notification of alerts, this bug can
cover Windows environment notification of alerts. That means not only beeping,
but also flashing in the Windows taskbar if the window the alert was opened from
was not the current window when the dialog was opened.

Comment 4

[:deanis74]

Chatzilla flashes the taskbar icon.  It looks like extensions/irc/xul/static.js 
calls window.GetAttention() to accomplish this.

Comment 5

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

I fixed this at bug 463209 for Win32. And also the sounds are supported on Linux after it. So, this bug should be marked as dup of bug 463209. And if there are some platforms which has this bug, you should file new bugs per each OSs.