The items in the "Sound schemes" group allow you to quickly load, save, and delete sound schemes. A "sound scheme" is simply a complete set of currently defined system sounds. This allows you to store and switch all system sounds at once.

Sound schemes were introduced with &warp4;, but this page will work on Warp 3 also. A sound scheme can be considered a "set" of system sounds which can quickly be loaded all at once. Since sound schemes are (unfortunately) stored in OS2SYS.INI, all users of your computer share the same sound schemes.

The "Current scheme" drop-down list shows you all the sound schemes that are currently defined on your system. On Warp 4, there should be at the least four default sound schemes, while on Warp 3 none are predefined (since Warp 3 does not know sound schemes in the first place). Selecting a sound scheme will overwrite the current sound data (after you have confirmed this). If you see "none" in the drop-down box, no sound scheme is currently selected, or the sound settings of a previously loaded scheme have been altered.

The "Save as" button allows you to save all the current sound settings (in the "Define system sounds" group) in a new sound scheme or to overwrite an existing one.

The "Delete" button is only enabled if the sound schemes drop-down list displays a sound scheme other than "none". Pressing that button will then delete the currently selected sound scheme.