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From: wras@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Steve Mariotti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Synchronous sounds using the Sound Manager
Keywords: Sound manager digitized sound
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Date: 6 Jun 90 04:22:55 GMT
References: <1990Jun4.020601.9644@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <30976@ut-emx.UUCP> <7401@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
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In article <7401@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> mwilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins) writes:
>In article <30976@ut-emx.UUCP> wras@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Steve Mariotti) writes:
>>Has anyone had experience using the Sound Manager to play a 'snd ' resource
>>synchronously (simultaneous with other processing)?

>  Well, one of your problems might be that playing a sound ASYNCHRONOUSLY
>means simultaneously with other processing.  SYNCHRONOUSLY playing a sound
>means that you put everything on hold while the sound is being played.
>Therefore, you should set the asynch parameter to TRUE.

This seems to be the consensus, but doesn't the very definition of
'synchronous' imply concurrence?  Asynchronous should mean 'not simultaneous'.
Is this Apple's way of confusing us even further?

>  I don't know what other assumptions your program makes, but this may cause
>some of your problems.

My program assumed that Inside Mac V was correct, and now it doesn't since I've
been happily pointed to apple.com for the update to that travesty of a chapter.

Thanks to all who've responded.

Steve
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