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- Sound - A DisplayBeep Daemon and Preferences Editor for AmigaDOS 2.0
-
- Copyright 1991 Sylvan Technical Arts.
- May be freely redistributed. All other rights reserved.
-
- Introduction
- Sound is a set of two programs that can replace the system's DisplayBeep
- flash with an audible beep or sampled sound.
-
- Components
- Sound is composed of two parts. The first part is named SoundPrefs
- is a patch to the DisplayBeep function, which is the function that
- causes the display to flash when some problem or other noteworthy event
- occurs. This patch (or daemon, as it can alternately be called) allows
- a simple beeping sound or a sampled sound to play instead of (or in
- conjunction with) the display flash.
- The second part is a preferences editor named Sound. It is very similar
- to the system preference editors which allows you to modify the parameters
- for the sound maker.
- Note: The names of these two programs may seem reversed, but they are
- consistant with the names of standard preference editors and the Intuition
- daemon (IPrefs).
-
- Adding the SoundPrefs Daemon
- The simplest way is to drag the icon for SoundPrefs into the WBStartup
- drawer. The next time the system is rebooted, the SoundPrefs daemon will
- be installed. To get the SoundPrefs installed without first rebooting, just
- double click on the icon.
- Alternately, the SoundPrefs program can be put in the C directory and
- the following line can be added to your startup sequence:
-
- SoundPrefs
-
- Adding the Sound Preferences Editor
- Drag the icon into the Prefs drawer, where all the other preferences
- editors are kept.
-
- Using the Editor
- Double click on the Sound icon to open up the editor. You will see
- a number of gadgets.
- The Flash Display checkbox indicates whether or not a flash should occur
- along with any sound.
- To the right of the Flash Display checkbox is a cycle button which
- selects between no sound, simple beep or sampled sound.
- If you want a sample sound, you sill needed to indicate the filename of
- the sound to play. You can either enter the complete path in the string
- gadget or hit the New Sound button to get a file requester.
- The Test button will cause a DisplayBeep to occur with the currently
- shown settings.
- The Cancel button exits the editor with no changes.
- The Use button changes the current sound setting but does not save them
- to to permanent storage. The changes will be lost on a reboot. The editor
- will then be exited.
- The Save button changes the current sound settings, saves them to
- permanent storage, and the editor exits.
- In addition all the standard menus and command line/project features are
- available. See the preference editor docs in the "Using the System Software"
- manual.
-
- Terminating the SoundPrefs Deamon
- The SoundPrefs program can be terminated by sending it a ctrl-c, by
- typing
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- SoundPrefs QUIT
-
- or by double clicking on the SoundPrefs icon a second time.
-