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From: cj@modernlvr.wpd.sgi.com (C J Silverio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Making nice sounds for System 7.0
Message-ID: <1991May22.175139.14245@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 22 May 91 17:51:39 GMT
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In article <34728@mimsy.umd.edu>, Wayne Folta writes:
|How does one make sounds that are double-clickable, drag-in and drag-outable
|in System 7.0? Under System 6.0.x, I had ResEdit files with sounds in them.
|The only way I have found to create a proper file is to use ResEdit to stick
|the file into the System, then double-click on the System and drag it out.
|The resulting file has an 'alis' resource in it, as well as the sound itself.

	I fiddled a bit with this.  The sound files need to have a file
	type of "sfil" and to contain the "alis" resource.  Once you
	put the resource in you can double-click, drag into suitcases,
	etc.  The creator type doesn't seem to matter.  I just copied
	the "alis" resource from another sfil.

	BTW, The System 7 installer did an insanely great thing: it 
	preserved the sounds I had installed into my 6.0.7 system file.
	I double-clicked on my brand-new system suitcase file, and
	there they were.  I was impressed.

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cj@modernlvr.wpd.sgi.com      C J Silverio/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720