Re: a request for someone to write a small utility program
- From: "Brent Harding" <bharding@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:49:45 -0600
I don't know if that will switch the device though.
----- Original Message -----
From: The Elf
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: a request for someone to write a small utility program
Chip,
sorry I was waiting for one of the others to bring up the name of an
application used to fix this, and then got distracted.
try this application and see if it will reset things for you:
Put a copy of qmx on your computer and load a configuration in your
start menu which has the volumes set correctly, or somewhere above
zero. :) It will always be noisy then. Suppose something is silencing
your sound card, you can make a hot key to always bring the sounds
back by making a configuration and then creating a hot key for it.
I had that happen where a program I installed had a file in memory
which somehow put my sounds to zero volume, and the only way I had
was to either use a external synthesizer to get it back from zero, or
use qmx and run a configuration which has volume and sound card settings in
it.
I don't know if that program works with Vista, however, so the
foregoing may be moot? :)
Curtis Delzer.
if not, I think I know of another one to test out.
regards,
inthane
----- Original Message -----
From: Chip Orange
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 1:38 PM
Subject: a request for someone to write a small utility program
Hi all,
This is a request for someone to write a small utility program.
Many of us in vista, and likely in xp also, have found ourselves switching
between audio devices (usually by just plugging in a USB headset, or switching
to a bluetooth headset), and back again to our built-in audio card.
Somewhere along the way the switch can leave us with no default audio
output device, or perhaps with the volume turned all the way down, or the
speakers muted, but what essentially happens is that this switching can leave
us with no audio at all, and we don't have braille displays!
Could someone write a program that we could run, which would set the
default sound device back to the built-in audio card, unmute it, and set the
volume to 50%?
If knowing what the proper built-in audio device is, maybe the programs
initial setup could save that info somewhere (it the registry or in it's own
.ini file)?
That would get many blind people out of a tough situation, which is getting
worse as all these alternate sound output devices become more and more a part
of our lives.
thanks for any help.
Chip
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Chip Orange
Database Administrator
Florida Public Service Commission
Chip.Orange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(850) 413-6314
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