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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Overlapping SOUNDS (playing 2 or more at once)
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Date: 2 Aug 89 01:43:13 GMT
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In article <1499@ndmath.UUCP> milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) writes:
> Oh...also, Is it REALLY necessary to lock down a "snd " resource while 
it's
> playing in the background?  The sound manager documentation doesn't 
mention
> anything about this...but I think someone else here did at one time.

Yes.  The Sound Manager locks the handle for the duration of the SndPlay 
call, but if you are playing the sound asynchronously, then the SndPlay 
returns much sooner than the sound ends.  You should take a look at my 
Pascal unit, which is available in the Info-Mac archives.

Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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