OK, it turns out this is a strange inconsistency in the windows Emulator -
on real palms, this dosen't happen.
This is actually one of the most fundamental differences in emulator
behavior I've seen to date.
On the Emulator, sounds are queued one after the other. On the real
device, sounds interrupt each other.
DIAMOND JEFF wrote:
> < OS 3.5 >
> When using SndDoCmd with sndCmdFrqOn (which works), I get an
> asynchronous call which begins playinga note and program control
> immediately returns.
>
> However, the documentation clearly states that:
> "Any other sound play request made before this one completes will
> interrupt it. " (And describes this in other places as well.)
>
> But what is happening instead is all the notes I fire off get queued up
> one after the other and simply play in sequence. While this behaviour
> has a lot of value if I want to easily play a song in the background, I
> need the ability to be able to interrupt a sound.
>
> Has anyone observed/created the documented behaviour in which the sound
> is interrupted by the new one?
>
> I'm using NULL for the sound channel (shared channel) and it doesn't
> matter what I put in for noWait.
>
> Thanks again for the assistance.
>
> - jeff
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