PC Beacon Archives - Jim Dolby https://jim.dolby.id.au/tag/pc-beacon A Geek and still proud of it! Tue, 30 Apr 2019 14:43:30 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 195341223 PC Beacon https://jim.dolby.id.au/projects/opensource/pc-beacon.html Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:38:33 +0000 https://www.securetech.com.au/?p=77 PC Beacon flashes the screen and speaks “Attention Required” from the speakers of the computer (using . It was made for use on customers sites where you are remotely controlling a computer, and either require the users attention again, or need someone to find the appropriate PC quickly and easily. Download PC Beacon This is […]

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]]> PC Beacon flashes the screen and speaks “Attention Required” from the speakers of the computer (using . It was made for use on customers sites where you are remotely controlling a computer, and either require the users attention again, or need someone to find the appropriate PC quickly and easily.

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This is achieved, through changing the background colour of a full-screen window (with no borders). The colour change rate is easily changeable (set for once per second as standard).

As normal, this application is written in AutoIt Scripting Language, and has the source code included as a resource of the application.

Minor modifications would be needed to allow setting of all variables from an INI, as the whole script is contained within one function (to allow easy importing into existing projects)

Application is licensed under GPL 3 or later.

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