Re: rSounds -- How to play them?

[fmlin@terapin.com (Frank M. Lin)]

>Finder extensions are a BIG problem. I don't use the Finder at all
>since I dislike it very much. So Finder Extensions are not available
>to me. If new software is developed only as Finder Extensions, there
>will soon be no utilities I can use. It is a bad thing to treat the
>Finder specially just because it's .... the Finder. Making the Finder
>an s16 like any other program was a good move, unlike what they did on
>the Mac. But all the new stuff in System 6 about the "finderSays" and
>stuff like that is stuff that Apple created that is specific to the
>Finder. If they wanted to have that sort of thing, they should have
>created a system that is not finder specific.

There are two NDAs out there that can help you.  One is Finder Extender (
something like that ), and the other is called OpenAny.  These two NDAs allow
you to use most Finder extensions if they're placed in the
:boot:system:system.setups folder instead of the :boot:system:finderextras
folder.

>Neither of the Finder Extensions solve my problem anyway! They reqre
>the sound CDev to be active which is exactly what I want to avoid
>(otherwise there's no point, really).

It's true that the Sound CDev will have to be active for most program/utilities
to be able to play rSounds, including rSounder v2.0.

I have a hint for people who use Sound CDev; you should combine all the little
sounds into one big resource sound file in your :boot:system:sounds folder. 
Sound CDev seems to check all the files in that sounds folder _everytime_ you
boot.  Combining all my sounds into one file saves me about 3 sec. of boot
time.  Can you beleive it?  Try it!!!

frank m. lin
fmlin@terapin.com