On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 02:29 +1000, Alex Holkner wrote: > hook this callback in Pygame, but Pygame-ctypes provides it (via > SDL-ctypes using Mix_RegisterEffect).
At one point we had played with the idea of allowing a python callback to hook into the Mix_RegisterEffect. One thing that makes this tricky is that the SDL mixer runs in a separate thread, so it required the mixer to grab the GIL before it could run the callback. This had occasional overhead problems depending on how long it took python to get back. Things may be better nowadays with faster machines. We were thinking as a backup approach the sound samples could be copied into some sort of live Numeric array without needing to grab the GIL. In the end there wasn't enough demand and this stuff sort of floated off.
