On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:33:25 +0000, Keean Schupke
I still think you need to use a StablePtr, so the sample will not get garbage collected.
You then need to free the sample explicitly when playback has finished...
Ideally you want to add a callback to do the free-ing. In my opinion if the library you are using does not provide this callback then the library is broken - and you should try and find a different library which does things properly.
I'm not sure why it doesn't do this, it provide a callback for streams. Anyway, if I use polling to check if the sample is playing then I don't need the stableptr because in the polling loop the channel will be kept alive since it's used to check if its playing.
There are too many unknowns to say much more than this... If you queue two samples to the same channel, how do you detemine when the first sample has finished (as polling the channed will tell you it is still playing).
I don't, basically. Well I could implement sort of a queue for each channel but basically channels are resources and when you play a sample it will just find a free channel for you. It's possible, but not that useful, to do your own channel management.
I get the feeling the traditional way to manage this is to load _all_ the samples for a song/game level in one go, and keep them until the whole song or game-level is finished.
Well that is how the C library does it, but if I could get the whole "delay GC while channel is active" working it would amount to very much the same thing, except a few resources might get freed up earlier, and the programmer doesn't need to explicitly delete things. /S -- Sebastian Sylvan +46(0)736-818655 UIN: 44640862