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From: ramaley@csli.Stanford.EDU (Alan Ramaley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: interrupting snd resources
Summary: how to have sounds in the background
Keywords: sound, hackers
Message-ID: <14508@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 19 Jul 90 05:32:24 GMT
Sender: ramaley@csli.Stanford.EDU (Alan Ramaley)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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Hi folks.  How can you have sounds running in the background?  I'm
working on a text editor with a friend, and we want it to make a
clicking noise when a person is typing.  We want to use a snd
resource, and call sndPlay, from the sound manager, since that seems
easiest.  But when you call sndPlay, it rattles on until the sound
finishes.  I know there must be a way to say, "okay, play this
resource, but if you get signal X, stop playing".  Does anyone have
any clues?  We're using Think C 4.0, if that's important.  I imagine
we're being too high level about things, but we can't figure out the
low-level documentation.

							--Alan