[freesci-develop] Re: Event-driven sound server

[Alexander R Angas]

Hi,

I'm not sure if it would be a good idea to dump the polled sound server 
entirely. This is because when we implement the event-driven sound server, 
sacrifices may have to be made to do things 'The Microsoft Way' for the Win32 
platform. That is, after all, the main reason why the sound server needs to be 
changed.

That's why I'm a little concerned with the idea of calling a message function 
in the main process because that's far removed from how Win32 works. With that 
platform, messages are sent to the same thread or to another thread, and a 
callback function associated with each thread (where necessary), handles the 
messages.

I really don't like the idea, but it's possible that the architectural 
decisions we make for the event-driven sound server do need to allow for the 
best interests of Win32.

Cheers,

Alex.