Hi Larry, Actually, I don't have a wave file named silent.wav in my default Window-Eyes profile folder, although I do have a file named silent.set, which is used by Window-Eyes to silence speech when you open the Kurzweil 1000 program since it has its own speech capability. It sounds to me that the difficulty your having lies in the volume of the various app sound files. Personally, when I experience such a problematic volume of a sound file, I use GoldWave, a sound editing program, to reduce the volume of that file and then overwrite the original file with the file having the new volume. Also, being an app developer, and somewhat courageous, I have found that one can sometimes just delete the wave file and nothing goes wrong with the app. As for my apps, specifically those which employ sound effects, I always prepend the name of the app to the sound files so that someone examining the profile folder knows that the sound files in question are associated with that app. As for placing app-specific files into their own app-specific folder, we app developers have had this discussion on the Window-Eyes scripting list, and, at present, there is no facility built into the WindowEyes app packager to make this possible, and so we're left with the undesirable choice of dumping all app-related files into the same folder as the app code file. Allow me to end this explanatory note by offering to reduce the volume of some of your sound files, since I'm happy to do this for you. If you prefer to write me off-list, I'm at: rod_hut...@hotmail.com
All the best, Rod -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+rod_hutton=hotmail....@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Larry Higgins via Talk Sent: Monday, June 29, 2015 6:46 PM To: Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Just an observation Hello again, and as your short term memory might serve, some of you are aware that I am looking for some substitute sound/wav files for Thunderbird Enhanced app, as well as the IE info bar. While on my quest, I've noticed that out of 448 files, I think about 50% are duplicates, and a high number of these files really don't make much sound at all, if any. I mean, there is actually one called "silent.wav" which seems to be absolutely, well, silent. Now, what the hell is the point of having a .wav file that is actually silent. With all these duplicates, these files are spread all over the place, used by so many different apps. I don't know, but at one time, wasn't the convention to have these files reside in one subfolder of the Windows folder, where they could be accessed by all apps rather than by the present arrangement? I realize that on a 1TB hard drive, 60 something mb isn't a lot of occupied space, but it just seems to be a bit presumptuous on the part of app writers to spread them all over hell like that. But I guess we don't live in the most civil or considerate age. Oh well, just my two cents worth about something that doesn't matter worth a hill of beans, but I'm just a bit curious. Wont lose much sleep over it <smile>. _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/rod_hutton%40h otmail.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
