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From: smith@coral.bucknell.edu (Greg Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Finder Sounds Flakiness
Message-ID: <2615.25b9c67e@coral.bucknell.edu>
Date: 21 Jan 90 19:26:06 GMT
References: <1451@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA
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In article <1451@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU
 (Michael J Kobb) writes:
> Hi!
>
>   I downloaded the init "Finder Sounds" from America Online, and I love the
> ability to play sounds when certain finder events (ESPECIALLY emptying the
> trash) happen.  However, I find that the CDEV that controlls the init doesn't
> seem to work reliably.  I turned off the zooming window sounds because they'r
> too startling through my powered speakers, but they come back every now and
> then.  The check boxes in the CDEV still indicate that they're turned off.

If the sound code can't read the resource in Finder Sounds Config for any
reason, it uses its default setting to play the sounds.  It tries to read those
settings whenever it is initialized (either during a Finder launch or when the
Finder is switched into the foreground).  I imagine that the code wasn't able
to read the settings after coming into the foreground when you observed the
flakiness.  I'm currently working on version 1.1 to add a couple of features
and fix a couple of shortcomings.  I'll try to fix that confusion at the same
time.

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