Re: ^G in WorkBench 1.4

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From: Jeff Bevis
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1989 00:43

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In article <3271@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>, barrett@jhunix.UUCP (Dan Barrett) writes:
>>In article <3260@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.UUCP (Dan Barrett) writes:
>>> 	Perhaps S:BeepSound would be required to be a one-shot sample
>>> with duration less than 0.5 seconds, or something like that.
>
>If the "beep" sound is long, should it (a) restart as it receives each
>^G, (b) overlap itself, using the other audio channels, (c) ignore ^G's
>that occur while a previous ^G is still playing, (d) play them one right
>after the other, with the end of one sound going into the beginning of the
>next?

If I had anything to say about it, the successive ^G's would pre-empt the
currently playing 'beep' and restart it...  options (b) and (d) are certainly
unacceptable, and (c) is not really the best.

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