From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: 'blocking' sound output in Allegro
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 19:19:06 +0100
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Michael Saure writes:
>is there a 'clean' way to do blocking sound output with Allegro?
>Or do I have to write a new function which play a sample and
>then waits for the apropriate dm_..(forgotten the exact name)-variable
>to change its value?

You have to write your own function. I'm not sure what dm_ variables you
are talking about, though: there are no such things in Allegro!

But anway. Just call allocate_voice() and voice_start() to trigger the
sound, sit there in a loop polling voice_get_position() until it has
finished, and then call deallocate_voice() to free it...


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