[program-l] Re: Changing the windows sound scheme
- From: "Will Pearson" <will-pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:33:36 +0100
Hi,
The sound schemes in Windows are rather registry centric. This means you
can use the usual Windows API registry functions to modify them. If you
look under:
HKCU\AppEvents\EventLabels
This is where the list of sound events are stored. If you look under:
HKCU\AppEvents\Schemes
This is where the sound scheme information is contained.
HKCU\AppEvents\Schemes splits down into two further sub-keys:
HKCU\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps
which contains the information relating to the sounds associated with
various application events, and
HKCU\AppEvents\Schemes\Names
which contains the sound scheme names
HKCU\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps is probably the most useful branch for modifying
sound schemes. Under that key, there are various keys relating to various
applications that have registered events. The structure for the sub-keys
is:
AppName\AppEvent\.Current
which will give you the sound currently associated with a particular event.
This registry key contains a default value that is a string containing the
path to the .wav file that is used for the sound. So, by altering this
registry string, replacing the filename of the .wav file, you can modify the
sound scheme for the current user.
From an HCI perspective, I would try to avoid assigning sounds that are used
in the current sound scheme to different events. It's likely that the user
has developed existing associations between these sounds and the events they
represent. If you then assign these sounds to different events, users will,
at least initially, still think of them as representing the old events. If
you are introducing new sounds, then that's fine.
Will
----- Original Message -----
From: "SEAN FARROW" <S0201608@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 9:39 AM
Subject: [program-l] Changing the windows sound scheme
Hi;
Does nyone know where and indeen if there is any code that documents how
to change the windows sound scheme. Any help gratefully accepted.
Regards
Sean.
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