Audio cues
- Cues for send/receive on-off, minimise/restore, checkbox tick/untick, and tab switch
- Soft keyboard clicks while typing, with a distinct passkey sound on password fields
- Per-cue "Choose sound" variant picker; "(none)" silences a cue; front-most missing-sound warning
- Send/receive cues take priority over the generic checkbox sound; programmatic ticks stay silent
Preferences
- Redesigned into four tabs (General, Audio cues, Startup behaviour, Update settings)
- Startup behaviour moved in from the Options menu
- NVDA now announces the dialog on open (focus a real named control, not the quiet tab control)
Auto-tune
- Cause-aware: tells device render-callback stalls (more buffer can't fix) apart from genuine
network/buffer starvation, so it no longer pins latency high on chunky onboard cards
- Lowering the target eases the buffer down (glide) instead of trimming it, so no clicks while tuning
Sounds layout
- Shipped defaults moved out of the per-user folder into an install-side "default sounds" folder,
so updates can refresh them; user customs are Browse-picked file paths and are left untouched
- Startup migration removes both legacy sound folders; verified from oldest (v1.0-v3.3) and v3.4 layouts
Quiet automated launches
- New --silent launch flag mutes all cue sounds and suppresses the startup dialogs (migration notice,
update check, Realtek/mic/missing-sound warnings) so test launches never disturb the user
- run-tests / build-release / SelfTest repointed to the new "default sounds" layout
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Part 1 - "Uncheck all inputs and outputs" button now also resets the ASIO driver to "(none)":
renamed to say so, and UncheckAllDevices sets asioDriverBox to row 0 for a full clean
WASAPI-only, nothing-selected state.
Part 2 - checkbox tick/untick sounds: every checkbox toggle anywhere in RemSound now plays a
short cue (check.wav on tick, uncheck.wav on untick) - instant feedback on which way a box
went, especially in the inputs/outputs lists. New CheckSoundService + two machine-wide cues
(CheckboxOn/Off) with the usual numbered-variant + Preferences treatment. Hooked from
AccessibleCheckBox.OnCheckedChanged and the device lists' WireCheckedListAccessibility, both
gated on the control being Focused so a genuine user toggle clicks but bulk programmatic
(un)checking (profile load, "uncheck all") stays silent. Reloaded at startup and on cue change.
Tests + manual updated; .sfk byproducts cleared.
Remaining for the overhaul (next): tabbed Preferences (General / Audio cues / Startup behaviour /
Update settings), the cue-list redesign with a "none" option replacing per-cue checkboxes, moving
Startup behaviour out of the Options menu, and a front-most "missing sound file" error.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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