ephraim@think.COM (Ephraim Vishniac) (03/17/89)
As supplied by Apple, the Sound cdev presents a very small scrolling list of beep sounds. If you've installed lots of sounds in your system file, it's a regular pain to scroll the list in such a tiny window. Here's how to fix it. The Sound cdev dialog is described by DITL -4064 in the Sound cdev file. This DITL has some funky properties which make it nearly impossible to edit graphically. The largest difficulty is that a couple of magic rectangles are "outside" the DITL to the right. If you modify anything else in the DITL, ResEdit "fixes" it so as to make these rectangles accessible. This is sort-of what you want, since you need to edit one of those rects. It's also not what you want, since expanding the DITL screws up the cdev completely. To avoid these problems, edit the DITL in hex. In ResEdit, option-double-click the DITL or use "Open General" to see the hexadecimal representation. The bottom of the rectangle for the scrolling list is at offset 00AC. Change it from $0054 to $00F0. The bottom of the rectangle that surrounds the scrolling list and its legend is at offset 00DC. Change it from $0062 to $0100. Be sure to close and save the file without opening the DITL graphically, or ResEdit will "fix" the bounding rectangle for you and screw things up. The next time you open the Sound cdev in the control panel, the scrolling list of sounds will be nearly as high as the panel. Miscellaneous info: System 6.0.2, ResEdit 1.2b3. Ephraim Vishniac / Internet: ephraim@think.com / AppleLink: ThinkingCorp Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1214 "Arlo Guthrie, it seems, has found what he was looking for: God, and the Macintosh." (Boston Globe)