Does anyone know if Blender 2.5 will make this possible? If scripting is as all-encompassing as promised then surely the necessary api calls will be available to achieve this.
The thing is… I was just thinking how great it would be to play the “Jaws” tune or the “Close Encounters” tune whilst a script was running and cooking up some interesting stuff. Completely pointless and superficial, of course, and possibly slightly annoying too, but pretty great all the same. 
Heh, window 95 sound when Blender starts
I don’t know anything about py API programming, but it should be pretty simple to add that ability and I already talked to Campbell about it and he said, he might look into it, if he has some time, but I guess that’s not too soon 
Well there’s no rush. I just thought it would be a nice feature for an open source application to have. It’s interesting that this is a feature request that is being considered.
Something that’s lacking in most commercial apps is a sense of wonder and suspense. Also a sense of achievement in the smallest sense. “request failed” or “error” or whatever is common currency, but what about “Sucess”–> Tatda! or “Nice one!” when everything runs without problems.
I’m not saying that people should be complimented with moving a vertex, but setting up a whole scene to a given specification should be worthy of a audio confirmation.
This should be configurable so that it doesn’t get in the way, but would be an interesting feature nonetheles.
(Success = “Ping!” (But not one of those cheesy, lousy Windows pings!! Something with a whole load more personality.))