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- RandySnd
- ========
-
- This program allows you to define a set of sound files for
- each Windows system sound. RandySnd will then select, at random,
- for each of the system sounds, one of the files to play for that
- sound. The randomizing process takes place whenever RandySnd
- is run "minimized" or on demand by pressing the "Randomize Now!"
- button. You can enable/disable randomizing on a sound-by-sound basis.
- Note that NO sounds are randomized by default.
-
- Your sounds can also be randomized periodically if you enter a
- non-zero value into the 'Dynamic randomizing period' field.
- If this value is zero, randomizing will take place only when
- RandySnd starts.
-
- Defining the set of sound files to be used by each system sound can
- be done either by choosing each file using a (boring) standard file
- open dialog, or via (thrilling) drag/drop from file manager. The
- latter mechanism is by far the easiest when first setting up.
- RandySnd doesn't prevent you from placing non-sound files in its list,
- so be a bit careful. (You normally only want to consider .WAV files.)
- I don't know quite what happens when the system attempts to play
- an .exe file...!?
-
- If you specify that the application should be run minimized
- (cf: the checkbox in the program manager's Properties box)
- then a small dialog will be displayed that informs you that
- your system sounds are being twiddled. This vanishes of its
- own accord after about 5 seconds. If you find this dialog irritates
- you, it can be disabled by unchecking the 'Show Startup Dialog'
- checkbox.
-
- So, I suggest you have two icons in Program Manager to control
- RandySnd. One in the StartUp group, with the minimize button
- checked; the other in a utilities group that isn't run minimized.
-
- Have fun!
-
-
- Acknowledgements:
-
- The authors of the snd.cpl Control Panel Applet, for the icon
- upon which I based the icon in RandySnd. (My version has chords
- next to the ear instead of single notes... trying to give the
- impression of lots of sounds in one...)
-
- Members of cix' windows conference, for the concept of a Windows
- system sound randomizer.
-
- Carl Pettypiece (pettypi@gaul.csd.uwo.ca) for valuable constructive
- criticism of v1.00. His comments provided the inspiration for v1.01.
-
-
- -----
-
-
- RandySnd is (C) 1992 Anthony McCarthy
-
- Feel free to use and abuse this program to your own ends.
- However, it is provided FREE, AS-IS and with absolutely NO
- WARRANTY whatsoever. Use it at your own risk.
-
- The above statement is especially appropriate as this is
- my very first program built using MSC++ 7 and Microsoft's
- Foundation Classes. As yet I haven't really got my head
- around how to play with precompiled headers. Also, I ain't
- yet played with the diagnostic services provided by MFC
- and so there may well be memory leaks that I haven't seen
- yet.
-
- Please forgive the proliferation of literal integers and
- strings in the code - this code was a quick hack - they
- should all really be symbolic at least. Also, I haven't yet
- developed/decided on a personal coding style for C++ so
- things might feel inconsistent.
-
- If you really like this program, a donation of a few pounds,
- dollars, roubles, francs or whatever would be appreciated, to:
- Anthony McCarthy, 14 Beryl Road, Bedminster, Bristol, BS3 3DH, UK
- (No written receipts will be supplied, but I will acknowledge receipt
- via e-mail.)
-
- Having said there's no warranty, please report any bugs, enhancement
- requests or source code criticisms to (in order of preference):
- amc@beryl.demon.co.uk
- amccarthy@cix.compulink.co.uk
- 100012.3712@compuserve.com
-
-
- CAVEAT: if you're trying to recompile this source with the same
- release of MSC 7.0, as I'm using, the compile will fail. Microsoft
- failed to include the AfxSig_vh enum in afxmsg.h although it is
- referenced in the ON_WM_DROPFILES() macro in the same file! To work
- around this, I simply changed 'AfxSig_vh' to 'AfxSig_vw' in my copy
- of afxmsg.h.
-
-
- Change History
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- v1.01 : AMcC : 22Aug92 : Added option to enable/disable the startup
- dialog that appears briefly when RandySnd
- is run minimized.
-
- Added a facility to request that randomization
- takes place automatically every n seconds.
-
- Bug fix: the sound files list box is now
- correctly filled when the configuration
- dialog is initially loaded.
-
- v1.00 : AMcC : 10Jun92 : initial creation
-
-
- Revision id: $Id: readme.txt 1.3 92/08/22 15:36:29 AMc Exp Locker: AMc $
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