Hi, Paul -

From the Help Menu (found in the GM Menu section), it has:

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Run Other Program

This is a submenu to run other applications and plug-ins, such as the Windows mixer.

Sound card Volume / Playback VU Meter launches the Windows mixer to adjust volumes on your sound card with the Playback panel.

Sound card Recording / Recording VU Meter launches the Windows Mixer to adjust volumes on your sound card with the Recording panel.

Note: This uses the c:\windows\sndvol32.exe Mixer program. You may need to have the Windows 98 version of this program for the Recording Panel to open properly. If you don't, you'd see the "Volume Control" panel and will have to manually set it to the Recording Panel (by choosing Options | Properties | Recording).

Sound Blaster AWE Control Panel applies only to users with a Sound Blaster. This function launches the "AWE Control" application (listed in \windows\sbwin.ini under the AWECONTROL section). The applet launched allows you to load in sound fonts. An example use of loading in a sound font (for AWE32) would be to load in the GS sound font, and thereby get brushes on drums available.

Sound Blaster Mixer is also for Sound Blaster users only, and launches the mixer for volumes.

Run Windows Control Panel… runs the Windows Control Panel, which lets you examine MIDI and Audio settings in the Multimedia, Add New Hardware, and System panels.

Run Other Application… and Choose (Other Application…) allows you to specify and run any other application (mixer application, PowerTracks etc.).

Run DLL or &EXE plug-in… and Choose DLL or EXE Plug-in… allows you to run a plug-in that has been made specifically for a PG Music product. If you would like technical information on how to make such a plug-in see the PowerTracks documentation files. (EXEDEMO.ZIP is source code in Delphi, and PTWDLL.TXT describes the plug-ins).

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I don't know if this helps. I just tested it on my computer by asking BIAB to load a text editor I like using. It worked fine, but was a little slow to load. I generally just use the Windows task bar to these kinds of things now.

John

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