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Recently purchased a Dell Studio w/ Vista Ultimate SP Home and opted to also get the external sound blaster X-fi xtreme audio notebook card but i am not sure if its working as it should since the laptop speakers sound the same with and w/out the card... not sure if my settings are correct on my laptop or maybe this card was a waste since others have told me it only works with headphones....
i installed the cd that came with the card and the card has a blue led light when inserted into the slot reader on my laptop...
this is my first laptop and first sound card so not very familiar with how it all works so any and all help is much needed and appreciated....isthere a way to check and see if the card is actually working and improving the sound quality?
when i click on the sound icon in my tray it says speaker/headphones IDT High Def Audio CODEC...
thanks in advance....

Just wondering but did you happen to read the manual for the card? Reason for asking is it quite clearly shows how to do just what you are asking,
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It started out the program WITHOUT a timer, where the user would type in some numbers in the text fields and the time the clock displayed would change to match what they typed in. I wanted to keep this behavior simply because I wanted to. I wasn't attempting to make an actual authentic clock. After I had the program working, then I wanted to enhance it so that it altered itself, as well as the user still being able to alter it. I suppose if I were going to program it again from scratch, I'd probably have the clock have some int's at the class level and use those to make the text fields and such. Anyway --- this program is not (and never has been) about keeping accurate time.
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education you ought to start using good design
patterns. I know they drift apart. That's not what I was interested in. And, afaik, "good design patterns" come with experience ... which is something that takes time to build and something that I am gaining. I'm not looking for a critique of my code here - I'm looking for a simple answer of why one approach worked properly and one didn't.
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What's happening?Did you read my original post?
One approach -> change the int's first, then update the fields.
another approach -> change the fields first, then update the int's.
One worked, one didn't.

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