Re: Desk Accessories question

[rbraun@Hopper.ITC.Virginia.EDU (Rolf Braun)]

Brian Tao (taob@io.org) wrote:
: In article <CuJvBv.A7y@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, Rolf Braun <rbraun@Hopper.ITC.Virginia.EDU> wrote:
: >
: >The reason the Sound control panel keeps the startup sound in memory is
: >that technically, any program can play it, even after startup, by calling >SysBeep2 with certain parameters. Therefore, this will probably never be >changed.

:     But what prevents GS/OS from reloading the sound from disk when that
: request is made, like it does for all the other sounds?  Is the startup
: sound marked as locked and unpurgeable, or what?
: -- 

GS/OS does not reload ANY sounds from disk unless you select them in the Sound
control panel and you have not assigned it to an event. The reason for this is
that it would be very slow and cumbersome to reload each sound from disk
each time it was played.

- Rolf Braun
- Apple IIgs Programmer
- Sassy Software
- Internet e-mail: rbraun@hopper.itc.virginia.edu