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- SYSTEM SOUND SHUFFLER, Ver 1.1
-
- What it is
- ==========
- Shuffler is designed to add some variety to system sound events in
- Windows 3.1. It lets you designate multiple sound files for each system
- event and "shuffle" between them. For instance, if you're tired of the
- same Windows Exit Sound every day, put Shuffler in your startup group and
- each time you start Windows Shuffler will randomly select one of your
- designated Windows Exit Sound files to replace the current one.
-
-
- System Requirements
- ===================
- Requires Windows 3.1 and a sound card and driver that will support *.Wav
- files. In addition, to work with the design files, you'll need the VB
- Professional Toolkit. If you do not have the Toolkit and you just want
- to run Shuffler, download the compiled program (Shufl2.zip), which
- includes the necessary runtime DLLs.
-
- In order to run Shuffler, the file cmdialog.vbx must be in your path.
- This file is included in Shufl2.zip.
-
-
- How it works
- ============
- The main Shuffler window shows the following information for each system
- event:
-
- 1. The event name
-
- 2. The current sound file associated with the event (as designated
- in the Win.ini file)
-
- 3. A list of additional sound files which you've associated with the
- event (Shuffler chooses from this list when you give it the shuffle
- command)
-
- 4. A check box indicating whether Shuffling is enabled for this event.
- When you execute the Shuffle command, Shuffler will assign new
- sound files only for those events where Shuffling is enabled. By
- default, Shuffling is disabled for all events.
-
- The above information is stored in a file named "Shuffle.ini" in your
- Windows directory.
-
- A brief explanation of the available commands follows:
-
- ADD FILE - Adds a sound file to the list of sound files associated
- with the selected event.
-
- REMOVE FILE - Removes the selected sound file from the list of
- sound files associated with the active event. The sound file is
- not deleted from disk.
-
- PLAY FILE - Plays the selected sound file. You can also play a
- sound file by double clicking on it in the Shuffle Files list box.
-
- SET CURRENT - Assign the selected sound file to the designated
- system event. This will update your Win.ini file.
-
- SHUFFLE - A new sound file is randomly selected from the list of
- associated sound files for all events for which shuffling is enabled.
-
-
- Command Line Arguments
- =======================
- Shuffler recognizes one argument - Shuffle. This argument causes the
- Shuffle command to be executed without loading the Shuffler form. If you've
- already configured Shuffler and you just want to shuffle your sound files
- every time you start Windows, put Shuffler in your Startup group with the
- Shuffle argument:
-
- Shuffler shuffle
-
-
- Changes to Ver 1.1
- =======================
-
- If you had the original Shuffler, note that the following changes have been
- made to version 1.1:
-
- 1. Shuffler now uses the Windows API function sndPlaySound to play
- sound files. The previous version used the MCI player from the
- VB Pro Toolkit and required the file MCI.VBX. That file is no
- longer required.
-
- 2. Shuffler no longer maintains a list of sound events in Shuffle.ini.
- Instead, it reads the events from Win.ini when the program is loaded.
- The advantage to this change is that Shuffler will now pick up new
- sound events as they're added to your system. It also prevents
- Shuffle.ini from getting out of sync with Win.ini
-
-
-
- (c) Brian D. Stine, 1992
- Uploaded courtesy of Brian Stine, Compuserve ID 73617,323
-
- This is freeware. It is distributed with only one restriction,
- and that is that you may not sell the program or charge any fee
- for distribution other than a disk copying fee of no more than $10.
-