chris | 15 Aug 2008 20:35
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XP Logon/off sounds for 0.24.8 ?

Do we want to backport the Logon/off sounds for XP from HEAD to 0.24.8? 
  Also, does this only affect XP? How about Win9x and Win2000?

chris

ilmcuts | 17 Aug 2008 00:12
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Re: XP Logon/off sounds for 0.24.8 ?

chris wrote:
> Do we want to backport the Logon/off sounds for XP from HEAD to 0.24.8? 
>  Also, does this only affect XP? How about Win9x and Win2000?
> 
> chris
> 

My original reply was much shorter but unearthed bugs in the sound code 
from HEAD. Therefore, I investigated. What follows is a hopefully 
thorough treatment of the entire issue, even if this not about 
backporting any more...

The terminology is ambiguous because the event -> sound associations 
have changed between XP and Vista and because some events are mapped to 
the same sounds. The following describes my take on this mess for Win2K, 
XP, and Vista.

I have put the assoiciated sound alias names (see PlaySound's SND_ALIAS 
or HKCU\AppEvents) in brackets. The "Sounds" control panel uses 
different, "friendly" names. Note that I could only confirm these names 
for XP and Vista, not for Win2k.

1.) startup (none?)

AFAICT this sound is new in Vista. It is played by the system when the 
logon screen appears, after you start the computer and before any user 
is logged on. I assume this is new because my XP test machine stayed 
silent during that period.

There appears to be no UI to change this sound. We can ignore it entirely.
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chris | 17 Aug 2008 16:45
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Re: XP Logon/off sounds for 0.24.8 ?

Win2000 has the following sound events:

ilmcuts <ilmcuts <at> ...> writes:
> 1.) startup (none?)

NO - doesn't exist

> 2.) logon (Vista: "WindowsLogon", XP: "SystemStart")

YES - but not the sound I had set in the control panel ?!

Apparently when I logon to my desktop, it plays the "Open" sound.  That is very
odd.  If I disable the Open sound, nothing plays.

There is an entry for SystemStart, it just doesn't appear to be used.

> 3.) lock ("WindowsLogoff")

NO - doesn't exist

> 4.) unlock ("WindowsLogon")

NO - doesn't exist

> 5.) logoff (Vista: "WindowsLogoff", XP: "SystemExit")

NO - (SystemExist exists, but it isn't played here)

> 6.) shutdown ("SystemExit")

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chris | 17 Aug 2008 23:29
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Re: XP Logon/off sounds for 0.24.8 ?

chris <jugg <at> ...> writes:
> In anycase this is too odd to be of any use.  Maybe someone else with a Win2000
> system can get more normal results.

I had access to another win2000 machine, and it played the SystemStart/Exit
sounds just find on logon/logoff/shutdown in both Explorer and LiteStep.

So, I guess nothing to change for Win2000.

chris

chris | 17 Aug 2008 07:31
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Re: XP Logon/off sounds for 0.24.8 ?

ilmcuts <ilmcuts <at> ...> writes:
> I did not have a chance to change the shell on that Win2k test box, so I 
> couldn't actually test if the sounds are played by the system or by the 
> shell. However, I assume Win2k to behave like XP. Can anyone check this?

I run 2k, so I'll test it soon.  One of the first things I do when I install
windows is to disable all event sounds, so I've never noticed a lack when
running LS.  I'll see what I can do to run some tests on this...

Any thing we need to do on Win9X?

chris


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