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From: mfi@serc.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante)
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Subject: Re: Attaching sounds to actions?
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Date: 23 Jan 91 22:37:17 GMT
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In article <1053@tokio.cs.utexas.edu> garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) writes:
>In article <985@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
>>Is there any way to attach sounds to system functions like
>>logout, killing a process, deleting a file, etc?
>>
>
>I think that you must be kidding, but just in case you aren't you could

This is not a joke, Apple has had something called the sonic finder
around for a while and there are numerous ways of adding sounds to
various mac interface activities.  These can provide useful feedback
when performing mouse based work.  I specificaly like the "clunk" a
file makes when it is directly over a folder (in addition to
highlighting).  I think apple has done interface studies finding this
to be effective.

Mark

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