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29 Jul 2024 06:27:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: WinPOV makes a sound when interrupting rendering  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 4 Apr 2004 16:49:20
Message: <MPG.1ada228a1c85153989a0b@news.povray.org>
In article <406ff21b@news.povray.org>, new### [at] deletethispovrayorg 
says...
> 
> "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message news:406fe60c@news.povray.org...
> >   Ah...
> >   I wonder if it would be more intuitive if you could turn these on and
> > off from POV-Ray itself.
> 
> Then folks would complain that they can't set the individual wav files
> from within POV as well. If I implement anything at all it's probably
> expected to do the whole kit and kaboodle.
> 
> I don't like the way Microsoft structured this but that's the way it is;
> the selections of sounds vs events is meant to be managed by the user via
> the control panel. It's a design 'feature' of windows. Applications are
> meant to simply source the events and let Windows do the rest. The only
> reason the 'beep' sound association can be turned on and off is because
> it was already there before I started using the above scheme.
> 
> -- Chris
> 
Hmm. Why not an option in POV-Ray to open that control panel? That solves 
the issue of both turning them on and off, as well as setting it to 
something else.


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