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Re: Desk Accessories question

Subject: Re: Desk Accessories question
From: rbraun@Hopper.ITC.Virginia.EDU (Rolf Braun)
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 00:14:19 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: University of Virginia
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Kid (neiderma@eden.rutgers.edu) wrote:

: > I thought that the sound control panel only loaded the startup sound
: >at boot time.  Looking through my desk accessory handles, it seems you
: >are right - I have several un-named "desk accessories" with the user ID

: I thought it was a well-known bug that any StartupSound stayed in memory
: after it was played instead of being purged.  I figured the GS
: guys at Apple would fix it in System 6.1.

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.

- Rolf Braun, rbraun@hopper.itc.virginia.edu

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  - From: sadasiva@utkvx.utk.edu (Krishna Madurai Sadasivam)
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  - From: voss@i40s19.ira.uka.de (Stefan Voss)

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