I am learning Cocoa Programming.
I only need to play sounds when an async task is done or failed in my very own Cocoa project.
So I would like to know what is the simplest way.
Although It should be quite easy, I have not found it out in Swift.
Many thanks in advance
Probably, the easiest way is to use NSSound
. For example:
NSSound(named: "Purr")?.play()
From Apple documentation:
If there’s no known NSSound object with soundName, this method tries to create one by searching for sound files in the application’s main bundle (see NSBundle for a description of how the bundle’s contents are searched). If no sound file can be located in the application main bundle, the following directories are searched in order:
~/Library/Sounds
/Library/Sounds
/Network/Library/Sounds
/System/Library/Sounds
If you want to play the system beep sound, use the
NSBeep
function.
Simplest? Put this in a Swift file in your project:
import AppKit
public extension NSSound {
static let basso = NSSound(named: .basso)
static let blow = NSSound(named: .blow)
static let bottle = NSSound(named: .bottle)
static let frog = NSSound(named: .frog)
static let funk = NSSound(named: .funk)
static let glass = NSSound(named: .glass)
static let hero = NSSound(named: .hero)
static let morse = NSSound(named: .morse)
static let ping = NSSound(named: .ping)
static let pop = NSSound(named: .pop)
static let purr = NSSound(named: .purr)
static let sosumi = NSSound(named: .sosumi)
static let submarine = NSSound(named: .submarine)
static let tink = NSSound(named: .tink)
}
public extension NSSound.Name {
static let basso = NSSound.Name("Basso")
static let blow = NSSound.Name("Blow")
static let bottle = NSSound.Name("Bottle")
static let frog = NSSound.Name("Frog")
static let funk = NSSound.Name("Funk")
static let glass = NSSound.Name("Glass")
static let hero = NSSound.Name("Hero")
static let morse = NSSound.Name("Morse")
static let ping = NSSound.Name("Ping")
static let pop = NSSound.Name("Pop")
static let purr = NSSound.Name("Purr")
static let sosumi = NSSound.Name("Sosumi")
static let submarine = NSSound.Name("Submarine")
static let tink = NSSound.Name("Tink")
}
import AppKit
public extension NSSound {
#if !swift(>=4)
private convenience init?(named name: Name) {
self.init(named: name as String)
}
#endif
public static let basso = NSSound(named: .basso)
public static let blow = NSSound(named: .blow)
public static let bottle = NSSound(named: .bottle)
public static let frog = NSSound(named: .frog)
public static let funk = NSSound(named: .funk)
public static let glass = NSSound(named: .glass)
public static let hero = NSSound(named: .hero)
public static let morse = NSSound(named: .morse)
public static let ping = NSSound(named: .ping)
public static let pop = NSSound(named: .pop)
public static let purr = NSSound(named: .purr)
public static let sosumi = NSSound(named: .sosumi)
public static let submarine = NSSound(named: .submarine)
public static let tink = NSSound(named: .tink)
}
public extension NSSound.Name {
#if !swift(>=4)
private convenience init(_ rawValue: String) {
self.init(string: rawValue)
}
#endif
public static let basso = NSSound.Name("Basso")
public static let blow = NSSound.Name("Blow")
public static let bottle = NSSound.Name("Bottle")
public static let frog = NSSound.Name("Frog")
public static let funk = NSSound.Name("Funk")
public static let glass = NSSound.Name("Glass")
public static let hero = NSSound.Name("Hero")
public static let morse = NSSound.Name("Morse")
public static let ping = NSSound.Name("Ping")
public static let pop = NSSound.Name("Pop")
public static let purr = NSSound.Name("Purr")
public static let sosumi = NSSound.Name("Sosumi")
public static let submarine = NSSound.Name("Submarine")
public static let tink = NSSound.Name("Tink")
}
Then you can very simply play any system sound like this:
NSSound.glass?.play()
Note that you can also make the system play the default error sound like this:
NSSound.beep()
NSBeep()
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