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Audible notifications of /whispers?

I've never seen it mentioned anywhere, so I'll just ask. Does anyone know if there's a way to make /w actions include an audible notification or something to catch the intended audience's attention? I know Roll20 has an audible notification any time there is an entry in the chat window that is made while you are one of the other tabs, so I'd think it wouldn't be too difficult to include, but I haven't seen any mention of any kind of macro command or anything that you could put in that would include that audible notification when that macro is executed. I routinely find that my players (and me sometimes, as well) don't notice /whispers in the chat window and I thought this would be a nice thing to be able to add to /whisper macros. Please let me know if I've just missed this option somewhere. Otherwise, let me know where I'd go about making a suggestion to include an audible notification like this with the /whisper command. Thanks.
Roll20AM if you are willing to use a macro. The advantage is that when you use a macro there is no Rainbowsnowflake is typing...  as you compose.
Thanks for the reply, but I'm not sure what you are saying there. Is Roll20AM an API script or something? Or is it just a macro command that you include somehow into the macro to create the effect I asked about? And if so, is it used in place of /w or after /w or how exactly? Thanks, again.
Roll20 AM is an API script available on the one click menu. I has extensive instructions with the script.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I looked at that API (even loaded it in my game and checked the in-game menu information) and all I see is stuff related to playing jukebox tracks - nothing related to how to adjust alert notifications for whenever a whisper is used, for example. If anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
I think I'm kind of figuring it out, somewhat. I guess what you mean is that I would put a sound effect that I'd like to use for the notification into a track and then make a /whisper macro that references that track along with a prompt for the target of the whisper and the message and then the sound effect would trigger when the /whisper is sent, right? The only next question is - does everyone hear the sound effect or is the sound targetable to the intended message recipient as well? Because if everyone hears the sound effect, it may defeat part of the purpose of it being attached to a /whisper.
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keithcurtis
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
API Scripter
Roll20 AM is basically advanced Jukebox control via macro. You can use macro commands to play sounds that are in your audio collection, but you can't make them only play for certain users. There might be other ways to accomplish your purpose. You could add a large or eye-catching image to a whisper, for example, using the format: [any text here](url of image here)
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Oosh
Sheet Author
API Scripter
If you just need it to be more eye-catching, you could style the text with this trick. Make a macro along these lines: /w "?{Player|Alice|Bob|Charlie|Dave}" [?{Message}](#" style="color:red;font-size:25px) replacing the names with actual player names, then type your message into the second Query prompt. Put it on the macro bar and click the button whenever you want to send a whisper. You could get fancy and use another prompt to select the text color/size/spacing etc. if you wanted to get carried away, though multiple Queries tend to get tiresome.
Those are both great ideas! Thanks a ton. Sometimes the answer is even simpler than you think it will be, huh? Don't know why those things didn't occur to me before. Thanks, again.