| From: | neil |
| Date: | 8 Sep 2000 at 23:27:15 |
| Subject: | Re: Large Wavs. |
On Friday September 08 2000, Don Cox said to Neil Williams:
>>> I suggested this too, but when I checked it later I found a snag: the
>>> sound only plays during the page it starts on. So you can't have
>>> changing pages and one sound running in the background.
>> Scala event: Play16 sound.wav
>> // scala page
>> Scala event: Kill n play16
>> Without Executive, that would be "break `status com play16`"
DC> I'm afraid I don't understand any of that. I removed Executive from my
DC> Amigas as it seemed to be causing trouble.
Executive doesn't cause trouble :)
DC> But what language are we in here?
This is just normal AmigaDOS scripting. "Kill" and "break" do the same thing,
and with AmigaDOS you embed commands using ` quotes.
DC> What you want to do is keep Play16 running (accessing the audio.device)
DC> while Scala goes on to its next event. If you start P16 from inside
DC> Scala, it cuts out as soon as Scala moves on to the next event.
Ah, I didn't know this. A sound card may work then, otherwise the idea is
dead.
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