"Background Jobs" - a sound idea

[aurumdigitus]

Have added a new hard drive to work station as well as an external drive for backup storage. As you can imagine this is precipitating a mass movement and copying of a large number of megabyte and gigabyte files.

This is time consuming even with the latest drives. If would be very useful to have an option to check at the bottom of the Background Jobs dialog Window that would play a sound of the user's choice as each job in queue finishes.

[nas8e9]

Have added a new hard drive to work station as well as an external drive for backup storage. As you can imagine this is precipitating a mass movement and copying of a large number of megabyte and gigabyte files.

This is time consuming even with the latest drives. If would be very useful to have an option to check at the bottom of the Background Jobs dialog Window that would play a sound of the user's choice as each job in queue finishes.

There is a visual cue in XYplorer when Window > Show Background Bar is enabled; it's shown in the far right of the status bar. A blue wavy icon denotes jobs in progress; a green check means all jobs are completed.

I'm personally no great fan of UI sounds, but as long as it's an *option*...

Edit: Previously discussed as part of the XYcopy UI here.

[aurumdigitus]

Edit: Previously discussed as part of the XYcopy UI here.

Thanks for the reference to that thread. Should have done a search first but was in a hurry.

Having just added those drives this is the first time for using Background Jobs to any real extent. With three gigs of memory do much multitasking and often have 10 to fifteen programs in operation. That was the impetus for the request so that when sound was heard could return to XY.

As not everyone cares for audio feedback having it as an option was specified.

[nas8e9]

Having just added those drives this is the first time for using Background Jobs to any real extent. With three gigs of memory do much multitasking and often have 10 to fifteen programs in operation. That was the impetus for the request so that when sound was heard could return to XY.

As not everyone cares for audio feedback having it as an option was specified.

I "read" too fast. My excuse is that, as I stated in that other thread, UI sounds get me slightly hot under the collar .

[admin]

I absolutely see the use of this (although I will try to block pan flutes and the likes programmatically), but it will have to wait till XYcopy 2.0 (which should happen this year).

[admin]

This is time consuming even with the latest drives. If would be very useful to have an option to check at the bottom of the Background Jobs dialog Window that would play a sound of the user's choice as each job in queue finishes.

Do you want hear a sound when all jobs are done, or after each job is done?

[aurumdigitus]

When all are done, i.e. the queue is empty. Knowing when each job is finished would be more annoying than useful.

[admin]

When all are done, i.e. the queue is empty. Knowing when each job is finished would be more annoying than useful.

I thought so and did it in v9.50.0110. Did you already try it?

[aurumdigitus]

Did you already try it?

Not yet. As enjoyable as it would be to examine each and every Beta in order to get paid it is occasionally necessary to do some work around here.

[admin]

Did you already try it?

Not yet. As enjoyable as it would be to examine each and every Beta in order to get paid it is occasionally necessary to do some work around here.