Not sure what you want to call it, but here's the deal: The attention manager never plays sounds. It just sends a suitable launch code to applications to ask them to play a sound. This has the advantage that the app has total control over which sound to play, which API to use to play that sound, what volume to play the sound at, etc.
The AttnDoSpecialEffects API is a hacked on afterthought that's really not part of the attention manager by most measures, but provides limited access to some of the attention getting methods used by the attention manager. As the sound APIs already provide full access to the sound hardware, and since the attention manager never plays sounds, this API doesn't do anything for sound. The API is of limited utility for controlling the LED and vibration hardware of some Palm devices such as the m500 and m505. When I say limited utility, I'm referring to the fact that you don't have any way to control blink/motor run patterns or durations. -- Peter Epstein -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
