Cross-platform 'ping' system sound in PyQt5?

donquibeats

I've got a PyQt5 application that performs a variety of functions, and on some of them (particularly the ones that take some time), I want it to go 'ping' when it's done. i.e. to play the system default ping sound.

Here's an extract from my code:

if func.func_environment.is_windows():
    import winsound

def is_windows():
    return platform.system() == "Windows"

def ping():
    if func.func_environment.is_windows():
        winsound.PlaySound("*", winsound.SND_ALIAS | winsound.SND_ASYNC)
    else:
        print("\a")

This is working fine in Windows, using the winsound module, but I can't seem to find an equivalent for Mac that works. The 'terminal sound' ('\a') is doing nothing.

Does Qt have any built-in cross-platform method for triggering standard system sounds?

Alternatively, is there a library that will handle this in a nice cross-platform way?

Or alternatively (again), how should I be handling this on a Mac so that my Qt application, and not the terminal, tries to make a system sound please?

jsulm

@donquibeats Why not cross platform (except embedded Linux) https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qapplication.html#beep ?

donquibeats

Only because I didn't know about it! All my Googling for 'qt', 'pyqt5', 'system', 'sound', and even 'ping' had somehow managed to miss the obvious.

Thanks for pointing it out!