Directory Opus Manual

Sounds

The Sounds page lets you assign sound files to be played whenever certain events occur in Opus. Sound events can be enabled or disabled globally with the Enable Sound Events checkbox at the top of the page. When enabled globally, individual sound events can also be enabled or disabled with their own checkboxes.

To assign a sound to an event, select the event in question and then use the Browse button at the bottom of the page to choose the .wav file you want to use. You can preview the sound using the play / stop controls on the right.

The events you can assign sounds to are:

• Close a Lister: Played whenever a Lister is closed (except on shutdown).
• Close Folder Tab: Played whenever a folder tab is closed.
• Dock a Floating Toolbar to the screen edge: If you drag a floating toolbar to the edge of the screen to dock it, this sound will play.
• Dock a Lister with another one: When Lister docking is enabled in the Location Bar / Toolbars Preferences page, this sound will play whenever you dock two Listers together.
• Find-As-You-Type No Match: When typing into the FAYT field in find mode, this sound plays if the string you type can't be matched to a file.
• FTP copy failure: Played if a copy to or from an FTP site fails.
• FTP copy success: Played when a copy to or from an FTP site succeeds.
• FTP error: Played if an FTP error occurs.
• FTP login failure: Played if an FTP login attempt fails.
• FTP login success: Played when an FTP login succeeds.
• FTP lose connection: Played if an existing FTP connection times out or is otherwise lost.
• FTP timeout: Played whenever an FTP operation times out.
• Menu Command: Played whenever a command is chosen from a drop-down toolbar menu.
• Menu Pop-up: Played whenever a pop-up menu opens.
• Navigation Click: Played whenever you click on a hyperlink-style control in a dialog.
• Open a new Lister: Played whenever a new Lister is opened (except on startup).
• Open New Folder Tab: Played whenever a new folder tab is opened.
• Opus Shutdown: Played when Opus shuts down.
• Opus Startup: Played when Opus starts up.
• Read/change folder: Played when you navigate to a new folder in a file display.
• Switch Folder Tab: Played when you change from one folder tab to another.
• Undock a Floating Toolbar from the screen edge: If you drag a previously-docked floating toolbar away from the edge of the screen to undock it, this sound will play.
• Undock a Lister: When Lister docking is enabled in the Location Bar / Toolbars Preferences page, this sound will play whenever you undock (split) a dual display Lister.