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From: vincent@ditsyda.oz (David A. Vincent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Simple Beep vs. Softer (NEW) Beep
Message-ID: <1767@ditsyda.oz>
Date: 9 Feb 89 11:14:58 GMT
References: <41418fe2.17b76@puffin.engin.umich.edu>
Organization: CSIRO DIT Sydney, Australia
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in article <41418fe2.17b76@puffin.engin.umich.edu>, swerling@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ace Swerling) says:
> 
> The new "softer" beep than now works on Plusses and SEs with System 6.0.2
> is a snd resource.  When you select Simple Beep in the Control Panel,
> it actuall plays a snd resource instead of invoking the standard "hard" beep.
[...]

No, it doesn't.  That was the problem.  When you selected Simple Beep
it played the hard beep.  There was no way of getting it to play the 
soft one.  I think someone has already posted the solution, and someone 
else mailed it to me.  It involves a minor hack to the System file
using ResEdit.  See below.  

To make the other beep appear in the Control Panel:  

	Duplicate the System file
	Open this copy from ResEdit
	Find the 'snd ' resource called 'simple beep'
	Duplicate that resource   
	Change the duplicate's name to something else, like 'soft beep'
	Change its ID to 129
	Quit from ResEdit, saving the changed copy of the System file
	Replace the System file with the changed copy.  

Thanks to someone called 'rich' who sent me some mail explaining this.


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